Custom Post Types: How-to get rid of editor (-meta box)

Question

I'm questioning how i can get rid of the post-editor (visual + html). I tried to not register post type support, and it still appears (de-registering works fine with every other default meta box on post edit screen). I also tried to deregister it with remove_meta_box, which didn't work too (works for everything else except the title meta box). Maybe i'm missing something. Already searched the web and couldn't find anything. I hope someone can tell me. Thanks!

Ps. I would be happy about a sollution for disabling the title field too, but that's 2nd (not registering it with the post type works).

(Wordpress version is 3.0.4.)

Answer 1

Giving a blank array to 'supports' in the declaration of the post type should get rid of the editor and the title, along with every other default box in the edit post page.

$supports = array ('');
    $args = array(
      'label' => 'people',
      'supports' => $supports,
      'hierarchical' => false,
      'public' => true,
      'rewrite' => true
         );

    register_post_type( 'people', $args);

Result: Populate 'supports' with whichever elements you want to show up, such as trackbacks, comments, etc. Or just leave it blank to leave the page empty, except for the box that lets you save your posts. Make sure to visit here if you want to get rid of hierarchical taxonomy metaboxes as well.

Answer 2

If you pass nothing for the supports argument, the default settings of 'title', 'editor' is used (where "nothing" is anything that is empty()).

However, just like you can add support for something after registering the post type with add_post_type_support( $post_type, $feature ), you can remove support for something by calling remove_post_type_support( $post_type, $feature ). So calling this after registering your post type should remove the editor:

remove_post_type_support( 'my_post_type', 'editor' );

These functions just manipulate the global $_wp_post_type_features variable, but it's always better to do this with API functions than to fiddle with it yourself.

Answer 3

I use the Custom Post Type UI plugin to create custom post types. Using this plugin, you can disable the post-editor under the advanced options.

Manage Post Type -> View Advanced Options

Here is a link to the plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/

PS - It lets you disable the title field too :)