Disable on Custom Post Type edit screens

Hi,

If you find this box not useful, you could try adding this to your themes functions.php

remove_action( 'add_meta_boxes', 'crp_add_meta_box' );

Currently, you can disable the box on a per user basis by pulling down the Screen options in the top right and unchecking this.

Hi Ajay,

Thanks – however we do want the CRP metabox on regular Posts and even Pages, it’s just the Custom Posts that we don’t want the metabox to show on. ??

And we’ve already remove the Screen Options from certain users – their only function is data entry and we don’t want them (intentionally or not) modifying their CPT entry screen, which has been extensively modified with custom meta boxes.

Given that your suggested code removes the metabox from all post types, I tried using some examples from the Codex pages about adding and removing metaboxes (including the suggestion to use “do_meta_boxes” instead of “remove_meta_box”….I even tried using a modification of your snippet, “remove_action(‘add_meta_boxes_mycustomtype’,’crp_add_meta_box'”..

So far nothing has worked – it’s all or nothing, it either shows up on all post types or none.

Can you suggest some code that will remove the metabox only for my CPT?

Many thanks,
Trisha

Hi Trisha,

I’m not sure if this would work, but could you please try this:

remove_action( 'add_meta_boxes', 'crp_add_meta_box' );
add_action( 'add_meta_boxes_post', 'crp_add_meta_box', 11, 2 );
add_action( 'add_meta_boxes_page', 'crp_add_meta_box', 11, 2 );

Hi Ajay,

It works to remove the meta box from my custom post type, but on my regular posts and pages (add/edit) I get this error message:

Warning: Missing argument 2 for crp_add_meta_box() in /[…]/wp-content/plugins/contextual-related-posts/admin/admin.php on line 442

Ideas?

Hi, I think this is because the _post and _page options don’t take the second argument.

I believe we’ll need to do a bit more in the functions.php. Could you please try the below.

remove_action( 'add_meta_boxes', 'crp_add_meta_box' );

function crp_add_meta_box_new( $post_type, $post ) {

    	add_meta_box(
    		'crp_metabox',
    		__( 'Contextual Related Posts', CRP_LOCAL_NAME ),
    		'crp_call_meta_box',
    		'post',
    		'advanced',
    		'default'
    	);
    	add_meta_box(
    		'crp_metabox',
    		__( 'Contextual Related Posts', CRP_LOCAL_NAME ),
    		'crp_call_meta_box',
    		'page',
    		'advanced',
    		'default'
    	);
}
add_action( 'add_meta_boxes', 'crp_add_meta_box_new' , 10, 2 );

Absolutely perfect! Thank you very much for your help with this, I truly appreciate it. ??

Your welcome. Glad to know this worked ??