Hiding content editor with WordPress 5

• PaulBart74

• December 13, 2018 at 3:53 pm

Hi I’ve just started building a new site and using the new WordPress 5 release. I’ve notice I can no longer hide the “content editor” in the back end. I’m guessing this is because WordPress 5 has changed things some what in the back end!

Is there a solution to this?

regards

Paul

• AtDCfcc

• January 5, 2019 at 12:07 am

You can use:
add_action( ‘init’, function() {
remove_post_type_support( ‘post’, ‘editor’ );
remove_post_type_support( ‘page’, ‘editor’ );
}, 99);

See

• AtDCfcc

• January 5, 2019 at 12:08 am

See https://typerocket.com/docs/v3/removing-the-editor-from-post-types/

• gleenk

• January 8, 2019 at 8:52 pm

Same problem here, how to hide content editor in WP 5? ACF options is not working @eliot could you implement this -> https://www.isitwp.com/disable-content-editor-for-specific-page-template/ ?

• AtDCfcc

• January 8, 2019 at 9:32 pm

Just put the above action in your functions.php file, and the content editor will be gone in WP5.

• gleenk

• January 8, 2019 at 9:38 pm

I know it woks but hey shound implement it in ACF!

• studiobovenkamer.nl

• February 1, 2019 at 10:16 pm

+1

• John Huebner

• February 2, 2019 at 12:38 am

This is one of the issues that Elliot is working on for 5.8, this was the main issue asked and there are several other issues linked from it https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/12692. I don’t know the status of it though.