I wasn’t surprised when one of my buyer asked me if there’s a way to hide features like tags, comments widgets. Its not uncommon in a simple CMS based projects where tags and comments widgets are seldom needed. Hence, I came up with a simple trick to hide those widgets.
Basically I used help of CSS ‘display:none’ to achieve it. I created a function ‘hide_wp_tags_from_admin’ and then I added this filter to to admin head using add_action. You must either create a plugin and add it to plugins folder or you can use a quick dirty hack by adding below function to function.php of your active theme.
function hide_wp_tags_from_admin() { echo '<!-- #commentsdiv, #tagsdiv-post_tag { display:none; } -->'; } add_action('admin_head', 'hide_wp_tags_from_admin');
Very simple; isn’t it? Have your say.
nigedo
March 12, 2012
Your method leaves the hidden options visible in the “Screen Options” pane.
A better method would be drop this code in your theme’s ‘functions.php’.
[code]
/*
* Remove unwanted default meta boxes from posts
*/
add_action( 'admin_menu', 'namespace_remove_meta_boxes');
function namespace_remove_meta_boxes() {
remove_meta_box('commentsdiv', 'post', 'normal'); // Remove comments
remove_meta_box('revisionsdiv', 'post', 'normal'); // Remove revisions
remove_meta_box('postexcerpt', 'post', 'normal'); // Remove excerpt
remove_meta_box('formatdiv', 'post', 'normal'); // Remove format
remove_meta_box('trackbacksdiv', 'post', 'normal'); // Remove trackbacks
remove_meta_box('postcustom', 'post', 'normal'); // Remove custom fields
remove_meta_box('authordiv', 'post', 'normal'); // Remove author
remove_meta_box('postimagediv', 'post', 'normal'); // Remove featured image
}
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Design Gala
April 23, 2012
Thanks nigedo. :)