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Wordpress: Disable the content editor for a specific page template

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When adding a meta box to a 'page' in Wordpress (as opposed to a post, or custom post type), you might want to disable the default editor. Use this snippet in your theme's functions.php file to disable the editor for a specific page template.

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  1. /**
  2.  * Hide editor for specific page templates.
  3.  *
  4.  */
  5. add_action( 'admin_init', 'hide_editor' );
  6.  
  7. function hide_editor() {
  8. 	// Get the Post ID.
  9. 	$post_id = $_GET['post'] ? $_GET['post'] : $_POST['post_ID'] ;
  10. 	if( !isset( $post_id ) ) return;
  11.  
  12. 	// Get the name of the Page Template file.
  13. 	$template_file = get_post_meta($post_id, '_wp_page_template', true);
  14.  
  15.     if($template_file == 'contact.php'){ // edit the template name
  16.     	remove_post_type_support('page', 'editor');
  17.     }
  18. }

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