disable Tag meta box on the backend

[Boris]

I’m trying to hide the Tag meta box from view for anyone making a new event from the admin panel.

To remove the metabox, I have the following code at the bottom of my functions.php file:

add_action( 'admin_menu', 'remove_backend_meta_box');
function remove_backend_meta_box() {
remove_meta_box ( 'tagsdiv-post_tag', 'post', 'side');
}

sources I’ve looked at:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/remove_meta_box
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35113196/remove-metabox-from-custom-post-editor
https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/240836/hiding-a-themes-meta-box
https://tommcfarlin.com/remove-wordpress-meta-boxes/

To remove the link in the admin panel to edit tags, I am using the following at the bottom of my functions.php file:

add_action('admin_menu', 'my_remove_sub_menus');
function my_remove_sub_menus() {
    remove_submenu_page('edit.php?post_type=tribe_events', 'edit-tags.php?taxonomy=post_tag&post_type=tribe_events');
}

Sources:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/remove_submenu_page
https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/110782/remove-categories-tags-from-admin-menu/236211

Neither one seems to be doing the trick.

[Sky]

Hi there!

Thanks for reaching out. I will try to help figure out how to do this.

It looks like you were close! Here is a snippet for removing the metabox:


add_action( 'admin_menu', 'tft_remove_taxonomy_metabox', 999);
function tft_remove_taxonomy_metabox() {
remove_meta_box('tagsdiv-post_tag', 'tribe_events', 'side');
}


and for removing the menu item:


add_action('admin_menu', 'my_remove_sub_menus', 999);
function my_remove_sub_menus() {
remove_submenu_page( 'edit.php?post_type=tribe_events', 'edit-tags.php?taxonomy=post_tag&post_type=tribe_events' );
}


Let me know if that works for you!

Thanks,
Sky

[Boris]

Thanks! Removing the Tag metabox works. Putting in the appropriate execution time did the trick.

This solution was hinted at in the Notes section of https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/remove_meta_box but gave no obvious recommendation.

However, removing the Events/Tags submenu still doesn’t work.

I tested to see if I could remove other items. I was able to remove Events/Venues and the default Post/Tags submenu items in the code below:

add_action('admin_menu', 'my_remove_sub_menus', 999);
function my_remove_sub_menus() {
    remove_submenu_page( 'edit.php?post_type=tribe_events', 'taxonomy=post_tag&post_type=tribe_events' ); //no luck
    remove_submenu_page( 'edit.php', 'edit-tags.php?taxonomy=post_tag' ); //works
    remove_submenu_page( 'edit.php?post_type=tribe_events', 'edit.php?post_type=tribe_venue'); //also works
}

[Sky]

I see what’s happening. The ‘&’ in the url needs to be an html entity, but the editor here is automatically converting it.

You need to add ‘amp;’ on to the end of the ‘&’.

This goes in between “taxonomy=post_tag” and “post_type=tribe_events”

Let me know if that helps.

Thanks,
Sky

[Boris]

Yep! That works. Many thanks.

[Sky]

Awesome!

Glad it worked for you.

Let us know if you have any questions or issues in the future.

Thanks,
Sky

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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