How to Disable Color Options?

Question

This question is related to my earlier question, but I think it's specific enough to qualify as a standalone question.

I am modifying an existing theme (the Twenty Ten theme that ships with WordPress), and I would like to completely control the colors used. The Admin Screen allows the administrator to select a background color, and this seems to be implemented in one of the actions that are automatically registered to the wp_head hook (listed by Bainternet here).

So I would like to do two things:

• Remove the Color Options menu from the Admin Screen when my theme is activated. Is this possible and if so, how would I go about doing this? (Links to documentation welcome!)
• Remove the automatically registered action to wp_head that controls the color. Which action in particular would be responsible for this? (rsd_link, etc?)

Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

In TwentyTen’s functions.php the custom background is added in twentyten_setup() which is called on the action 'after_setup_theme'.

So, in your child theme, the following should remove the option completely:

// Higher priority to work after TwentyTen
add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'wpse12934_remove_custom_background', 20 );

function wpse12934_remove_custom_background()
{
    remove_custom_background();
}