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Wordpress: Hide Admin Meta Boxes

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Remove meta boxes from the Wordpress admin area. Useful for simplifying Wordpress' admin interface for your clients. Add this snippet to your Wordpress theme's functions.php file.

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  1. /**
  2.  * Remove meta boxes.
  3.  */
  4. function remove_meta_boxes() {
  5.     // Only proceed if user does not have admin role.
  6.     if (!current_user_can('manage_options')) { 
  7. 	remove_meta_box( 'submitdiv', 'post', 'normal' ); // Publish meta box
  8. 	remove_meta_box( 'commentsdiv', 'post', 'normal' ); // Comments meta box
  9. 	remove_meta_box( 'revisionsdiv', 'post', 'normal' ); // Revisions meta box
  10. 	remove_meta_box( 'authordiv', 'post', 'normal' ); // Author meta box
  11. 	remove_meta_box( 'slugdiv', 'post', 'normal' );	// Slug meta box
  12. 	remove_meta_box( 'tagsdiv-post_tag', 'post', 'side' ); // Post tags meta box
  13. 	remove_meta_box( 'categorydiv', 'post', 'side' ); // Category meta box
  14. 	remove_meta_box( 'postexcerpt', 'post', 'normal' ); // Excerpt meta box
  15. 	remove_meta_box( 'formatdiv', 'post', 'normal' ); // Post format meta box
  16. 	remove_meta_box( 'trackbacksdiv', 'post', 'normal' ); // Trackbacks meta box
  17. 	remove_meta_box( 'postcustom', 'post', 'normal' ); // Custom fields meta box
  18. 	remove_meta_box( 'commentstatusdiv', 'post', 'normal' ); // Comment status meta box
  19. 	remove_meta_box( 'postimagediv', 'post', 'side' ); // Featured image meta box	
  20. 	remove_meta_box( 'pageparentdiv', 'page', 'side' ); // Page attributes meta box
  21.     }
  22. }
  23. add_action( 'add_meta_boxes', 'remove_meta_boxes' );

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