How do I remove the post format meta box?

Question

Is it possible to remove the "Post Format" meta box from the edit/new post page? The blog in question has a lot of users that keep messing with that but it only uses the standard format post.

I'm kind of new to wordpress so excuse me if this is a really obvious one.

Thanks.

Answer 1

That gets added because your theme supports post-formats.

You can either use a plugin (or a child theme's functions.php) file to hook into after_setup_theme late and remove theme support:

<?php
add_action('after_setup_theme', 'wpse65653_remove_formats', 100);
function wpse65653_remove_formats()
{
   remove_theme_support('post-formats');
}

Or look for the the line in your theme's functions.php file:

add_theme_support('post-formats');

and remove it.

The first option is a better bet. Stick it in a plugin and it will be there for the next theme you use as well.

Answer 2

// Higher value on the priority then the default of 10 makes sure this is run after the initial removal.
add_action('after_setup_theme', 'remove_post_format', 15);
function remove_post_format() {
    remove_theme_support('post-formats');
}

This should be placed in your functions.php file.

Answer 3

The simplest and best way to do that is typing in your functions.php the function below:

<?php remove_theme_support( $feature ); ?>

$feature (string) (required) - Name for the feature being removed.

Features list:

'post-formats'
'post-thumbnails'
'custom-background'
'custom-header'
'automatic-feed-links'
'html5'
'title-tag'
'menus'

For example, if you want to remove the post-formats you can type:

add_action( 'init', 'remove_post_format'); 

function remove_post_format() {
    remove_theme_support( 'post-formats' );
}