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title: Hide Metaboxes in WordPress Posts (Pro)
description: "This feature requires the Pro version of the PublishPress Capabilities plugin. WordPress has a feature called \"metaboxes\". This is a strange name, but you have seen them often if you use WordPress. When a user edits a post, the edit…"
url: "https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/hide-metaboxes-in-wordpress-posts/"
updated: "2026-10-15"
category: PublishPress Capabilities / Editor Features
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# Hide Metaboxes in WordPress Posts (Pro)

This feature requires the Pro version of the PublishPress Capabilities plugin.

WordPress has a feature called "metaboxes". This is a strange name, but you have seen them often if you use WordPress.

When a user edits a post, the edit screen has several default boxes: Status & visibility, Featured image, Categories, Tags, etc. These boxes are metaboxes. Plugins can add also add their own metaboxes.

The Pro version of the [PublishPress Capabilities](https://publishpress.com/links/capabilities) plugin allows you to hide metaboxes for specific user roles.

In the image below, you can see two metaboxes:

- "Yoast SEO" from the Yoast SEO plugin.
- "Editorial Comments" from the PublishPress plugin.

![Hide Metaboxes in WordPress](https://publishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/metaboxes-1024x270.png)
Metaboxes

To hide these metaboxes, follow these steps:

- Go to "PublishPress", then "Editor Features" in your WordPress admin menu.
- Choose the user role you want to hide the metaboxes for:

![Hide Metaboxes Roles](https://publishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/hide-metaboxes-roles.png)
Hide Metaboxes Roles

- Scroll down to the bottom and find the "Metaboxes" area. If you don't see all your metaboxes, go to edit a post and then reload this "Editor Features" screen.

![Metaboxes](https://publishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/metaboxes-1024x355.jpg)
Metaboxes

- Place a red X for any metabox you want to hide. In the image below, we are hiding both the "Yoast SEO" and "Editorial Comments" metaboxes.

![Hide Metaboxes Wordpress](https://publishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/hide-metaboxes-wordpress-1024x355.jpg)
Hide Metaboxes Wordpress

- Click "Save Changes".
- Visit the post editing screen as a user in the role you selected. You will no longer see the metaboxes you selected.