Tag: Editor Features

“Editor Features” is available in the PublishPress Capabilities plugin.

“Editor Features” allows you to clean up the post editing screen. You can decide what users see when they’re writing posts.

For example, you can customize the Gutenberg Editor so users have very limited features. The users can write the post as normal, but they have no access any of the extra settings. All they can do is save the post as a “Draft” or click “Publish”.

This guide explains more about how Editor Features work.

PublishPress Capabilities Can Hide Metaboxes, and Any Editor Feature

Hide Metaboxes

Written by Steve Burge on .

Back in June, we released “Editor Features” in the PublishPress Capabilities plugin. This allowed you to hide almost any feature on the post editing screen.

Why do I say “almost”? Because the first release of Editor Features could not hide metaboxes.

I'm happy to say that you can now use PublishPress Capabilities to hide metaboxes. This means that when users are writing a post, you can hide ANYTHING that you don't want them to see.

Why would you want to hide features from your users? Some people do this so that the post editing screen is cleaner and less confusing. Other people do this for security and to prevent users from changing some key settings.

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How to Hide WordPress Metaboxes in the Post Editor

Hide Metaboxes

Written by Steve Burge on .

A WordPress website always starts by looking very clean. But after you choose a theme and install a lot of plugins, the user interface quickly becomes very crowded.

In other guides, we've shown you how to hide WordPress admin menus, hide the admin toolbar, and hide dashboard widgets. In this tutorial, we'll explain how to hide the “metaboxes” that appear below your WordPress posts and in the sidebar, when you're editing a post.

In the image below, you can see some typical metaboxes from Yoast SEO, the PublishPress plugin, TaxoPress, and others.

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