Make the “Add New Post” one column for all users

Question

I have looked everywhere and there's been a few attempts to do this in my themes function.php file but no luck.

What I'm after is that to make it easier for my Contributors, that the add new post is in one column, easier for them to do it step by step.

I know I can change it in the screen options but I would like it by default so then they have it all done for them.

Answer 1

This is a tricky one, there is a filter called meta-box-order_{$page} where page is the name of the post type so for post you can use:

add_filter('meta-box-order_post','one_column_for_all');

 function one_column_for_all($result, $option, $user){
    $result['normal'] = 'postexcerpt,formatdiv,submitdiv,trackbacksdiv,tagsdiv-post_tag,categorydiv,postimagediv,postcustom,commentstatusdiv,slugdiv,authordiv';
    $result['side'] = '';
    $result['advanced'] = '';
    result $result;
 }

this is untested!!! but should work.