Removing All Dashboard Widgets

Here’s a quick snippet for removing all Dashboard widgets in the admin area. As always, I’m game for a better way – Something about four foreach loops does not strike me as efficient.

<?php
// Create the function to use in the action hook
function remove_dashboard_widgets() {
	global $wp_meta_boxes;
	if ( !array( $wp_meta_boxes ) ) return;
	foreach ( $wp_meta_boxes as $widget_section => $widget_locations ) {
		if ( $widget_section == 'dashboard' ) {
			foreach ( $widget_locations as $widget_location => $widget_types ) {
				foreach ( $widget_types as $widget_type => $widgets ) {
					foreach ( $widgets as $widget_name => $widget ) {
						remove_meta_box( $widget_name, $widget_section, $widget_location );
					}				
				}
			}
		}
	}
} 
// Hoook into the 'wp_dashboard_setup' action to register our function
add_action('wp_dashboard_setup', 'remove_dashboard_widgets', 11 );
?>