Remove Meta Boxes in Genesis Theme Settings

September 21, 2016| 0 comments

You can remove the metaboxes that appear in the Genesis theme settings in the WordPress dasgboard – this may help when you want an end user not to use or change certain theme settings.

genesis-meta-box

-<?php
-add_action( 'genesis_admin_before_metaboxes', 'wpb_remove_unwanted_genesis_metaboxes' );
-/**
- * Remove various metaboxes of Genesis Theme Settings
- * More metaboxes appear see @filesource genesis/admin/theme-settings.php
- * @param metaboxes()
- * @see https://fewerthanthree.com/code-snippets/remove-blog-page-settings-genesis-theme-settings/
- *
- */
-function wpb_remove_unwanted_genesis_metaboxes() {
-	remove_meta_box( 'genesis-theme-settings-version', 'toplevel_page_genesis', 'main' );
-	remove_meta_box( 'genesis-theme-settings-feeds', 'toplevel_page_genesis', 'main' );
-	remove_meta_box( 'genesis-theme-settings-layout', 'toplevel_page_genesis', 'main' );
-	remove_meta_box( 'genesis-theme-settings-nav', 'toplevel_page_genesis', 'main' );
-	remove_meta_box( 'genesis-theme-settings-breadcrumb', 'toplevel_page_genesis', 'main' );
-	remove_meta_box( 'genesis-theme-settings-comments', 'toplevel_page_genesis', 'main' );
-	remove_meta_box( 'genesis-theme-settings-posts', 'toplevel_page_genesis', 'main' );
-	remove_meta_box( 'genesis-theme-settings-blogpage', 'toplevel_page_genesis', 'main' );
-	remove_meta_box( 'genesis-theme-settings-scripts', 'toplevel_page_genesis', 'main' );
-	remove_meta_box( 'genesis-theme-settings-header', 'toplevel_page_genesis', 'main' );
-}

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In this Gist are the main ones just include the ones that you need to remove – any settings that have already been added are not lost, if you bring the metabox back the settings will be present.

Some more theme settings metaboxes may be present if certain theme supports are active, refer to genesis/admin/theme-settings.php for more.