I love the fact that a lot of the meta boxes on the WordPress Edit screens are hidden by default. Did you know that it’s really easy to specify which boxes should be hidden? This is great if you’re building sites for clients with lots of plugins that add meta boxes, but you want new users’ administrative experience to be as simplified as possible.
https://gist.github.com/sillybean/c37e7be3e97ab7a8eeea70398c1b93a8
The names in this array match the IDs of the meta boxes you want to hide. To find the ID, just inspect your screen.
Note that this filter affects only the screen options for new users. Anyone with an existing user account already has screen options set, and won’t receive the new default settings.
Ross Wintle says
June 21, 2016 at 6:54 amNice snippet. I also found a way to put a default ordering on the meta boxes, which was crucial for a site I made for a publisher that had a lot of meta boxes and a specific workflow for working through them: https://oikos.digital/2015/07/tech-notes-default-post-meta-box-order/
Vova says
October 25, 2016 at 9:22 amSuper, Thank You!
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Henning says
September 29, 2017 at 9:35 amAwesome!! That really is a gem :)