Remove Categories Box From WordPress Post Editor

Updated February 22, 2017     Leave a comment on Remove Categories Box From WordPress Post Editor
Originally posted February 3, 2013

WordPress Code Snippets

Remove the ā€˜Categoriesā€™ box from the ā€˜Add New Postā€™ editor in WordPress. Drop this into your themeā€™s functions.php file.

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add_action( 'add_meta_boxes', 'isa_remove_categories_meta_box' );
function isa_remove_categories_meta_box() {
     
    remove_meta_box( 'categorydiv', 'post', 'side' );// remove the Categories box
     
    // you can remove more boxes here
    // for example...
    //  remove_meta_box( 'formatdiv', 'post', 'side' ); // remove the Format box
    //  remove_meta_box( 'tagsdiv-post_tag', 'post', 'side' );// remove the Tags box
  
}

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