Removing the Editor from a WordPress Post Type

The WordPress editor has gotten a lot better over the years. However, You don't always want to use it. For example, a custom post type used for photo galleries doesn't need the editor; but how do you remove the editor from a WordPress post type?

By using the remove_post_type_support() function.

#Custom Post Type

Following the idea of a gallery post type all it needs are photos. So it makes sense to remove the editor.

Here is how to do that with the registered post type name of gallery:

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 Pro and only want the main title field you can use the setSupports() method instead.

tr_post_type('Gallery')->setSupports(['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.