Remove individual theme option fields from WordPress theme

  • I’m afraid I’m not too clued up with this sort of thing but you guys will hopefully be able to help out.

    I’m working with a theme that has way too many options in the back end and most of them aren’t needed. This theme is a Job Agency theme that we’re using for a client’s site and they will need the data entry for job inputting to be much simpler than it is.

    Please can someone point me in the right direction for editing and/or removing theme options fields.

    Any help would be REALLY appreciated.

    This image show the theme options I mean:

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    I suggest you contact the developer of the them directly.

    Thread Starter benlovel

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    Thanks but this is customization of their theme so most theme developers don’t offer support of customization.

    It’s definitely possible, I’m just trying to get a few pointers so I can tweak the theme ??

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    Well, you need to find where those fields come from. Look for code that creates metaboxes. It’s really hard to be any more specific than that.

    Thread Starter benlovel

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    Thanks for your comments. I’m afraid that means nothing to me.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    IF that’s a sincere statement, you need to hire a WordPress professional to help you, as removing stuff from a theme can be tricky.

    I like to recommend checking meetup.com for WordPress meetups in your area. They’re good for meeting local WP folks and the organizers can offer qualified recommendations for local devs.

    Thread Starter benlovel

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    Thanks for your help, I have been working with WordPress for a fair while and I’m pretty good at picking stuff up so I just thought that a few pointers might give me a bit of a clue with where to start.

    Is it not just as simple as finding the code for the fields and removing them?

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    yes, and then looking in each template to remove the code that displays the fields that no longer exist and fixing up CSS so things look good again when those fields are not displayed.

    Lots of possibilities for side effects.

    Be sure to use version control so you can recover from oopsies.

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