Removing the Editor from Post Types

1. # Custom Post Type
2. # Posts and Pages
3. # Support Title Only
4. # WordPress Supports List

The WordPress editor has gotten a lot better over the years. However, You don't always want to use it. A custom post type used for photo galleries doesn't need the editor; but how do you remove it? By using the remove_post_type_support() function.

#Custom Post Type

Think about the gallery post type. All it needs are photos. To remove the editor:

1. Open your themes functions.php file.
2. Pass the post type ID as the first argument for remove_post_type_support().
3. Then, call the function during the init action and set the priority to 99.

<?php // functions.php
add_action( 'init', function() {
    remove_post_type_support( 'gallery', 'editor' );
}, 99);

Note: Setting the priority to 99 will make sure it is called after your post type has been registered. You can always increase the number. 99999 might work better for you.

#Posts and Pages

If you want to remove the editor from the post and page post types do can do the same.

add_action( 'init', function() {
    remove_post_type_support( 'post', 'editor' );
    remove_post_type_support( 'page', 'editor' );
}, 99);

#Support Title Only

If you are registering a post type with TypeRocket and only want the main title field you can use the setArgument() method instead.

$gallery = tr_post_type('Gallery');
$gallery->setArgument('supports', ['title'] );

#WordPress Supports List

WordPress has a list of features any post type can add or remove support for.

• title for the main title field.
• editor for the WordPress editor.
• author for the publishing author select box.
• thumbnail for the featured image.
• excerpt for the excerpt meta box.
• trackbacks for trackbacks if the content is linked to externally.
• custom-fields for the WordPress built-in custom fields meta box.
• comments for comments.
• revisions for revisions of the post type.
• page-attributes for template and menu order (hierarchical only).
• post-formats for post formats.