Let’s say you disabled product tags in your shop. Or maybe your store set up requires no short description. Or even, you want to hide a custom “metabox” (e.g. one of those widgets that appear on the Edit Product page). Either way, removing metaboxes and making the Edit Product page much cleaner is quite easy.
You just need the “ID” of the metabox and its position (‘normal’ or ‘side’, depending on whether it’s in the sidebar or not), and then this little PHP snippet. Enjoy!
Hide specific metaboxes @ WooCommerce Edit Product Page
Please let me know in the comments if everything went as expected. I would be happy to revise the snippet if you report otherwise (please provide screenshots). I have tested this code with Storefront theme, the WooCommerce version listed above and a WordPress-friendly hosting.
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Great snippet! thank you!!! im want to hide the descrption box ´wp-content-editor-container´, but i cant find de position! any idea ? thank you very much!
Hi Gab, thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is definitely possible, but I’m afraid it’s custom work. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding!
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This code is not working for the product_variation type.
This is my code
add_action( 'add_meta_boxes_product', 'bbloomer_remove_metaboxes_edit_product', 9999 ); function bbloomer_remove_metaboxes_edit_product() { // e.g. remove short description remove_meta_box( '_virtual', 'product_variation', 'normal' ); }I don’t think this can work that way unfortunately, metaboxes are tied to the product, no matter its type
Great snippet! thank you!!! im want to hide the descrption box ´wp-content-editor-container´, but i cant find de position! any idea ? thank you very much!
Hi Gab, thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is definitely possible, but I’m afraid it’s custom work. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding!
function remove_pages_editor(){ remove_post_type_support( 'product', 'editor' ); } add_action( 'init', 'remove_pages_editor' );This works for me to disable main editor
Muito show, obrigado pelas dicas! Very good!!!!
Thank you!