Title: WordPress default screen options
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# WordPress default screen options

 *  [enderoe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/enderoe/)
 * (@enderoe)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-default-screen-options/)
 * Hi,
 * I would like to uncheck certain screen options such as the sharing and excerpt
   fields.
 * I already found some code wich i implemented into my functions.php but this isnt
   working:
 *     ```
       function set_user_metaboxes($user_id=NULL) {
           $post_types= array( 'post', 'page', 'link', 'attachment', 'product' );
           // add any custom post types here:
           // $post_types[]= 'my_custom_post_type';
           foreach ($post_types as $post_type) {
   
              // These are the metakeys we will need to update
              $meta_key= array(
                  'order' => "meta-box-order_$post_type",
                  'hidden' => "metaboxhidden_$post_type",
              );
   
              // The rest is the same as drebabels's code,
              // with '*_user_meta()' changed to '*_user_option()'
   
              // So this can be used without hooking into user_register
              if ( ! $user_id)
                  $user_id = get_current_user_id(); 
   
              // Set the default order if it has not been set yet
              if ( ! get_user_option( $meta_key['order'], $user_id ) ) {
                  $meta_value = array(
                      'side' => 'submitdiv,formatdiv,categorydiv,postimagediv',
                      'normal' => 'postexcerpt,tagsdiv-post_tag,postcustom,commentstatusdiv,commentsdiv,trackbacksdiv,slugdiv,authordiv,revisionsdiv',
                      'advanced' => '',
                  );
                  update_user_option( $user_id, $meta_key['order'], $meta_value, true );
              }
   
              // Set the default hiddens if it has not been set yet
              if ( ! get_user_option( $meta_key['hidden'], $user_id ) ) {
                  $meta_value = array('postcustom','trackbacksdiv','commentstatusdiv','commentsdiv','slugdiv','authordiv','revisionsdiv' , 'avia_hero' );
                  update_user_option( $user_id, $meta_key['hidden'], $meta_value, true );
              }
           }
        }
       ```
   

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 *  [Luke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lukejanicke/)
 * (@lukejanicke)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-default-screen-options/#post-4306341)
 * Add one of the following hooks with the function (before or after, doesn’t matter).
 * `add_action( 'add_meta_boxes_post', 'set_user_metaboxes', 10, 1 );`
 * This runs when the post edit screen is loading.
 * `add_action( 'user_register', 'set_user_metaboxes', 10, 1 );`
 * This runs when a new user is created.
 * The second might be better. Your code (which I am also using) only changes a 
   users settings (show/hide and order) if the user hasn’t already altered them 
   from the new user defaults. Running this action every time a user opens a post
   edit page is pointless.
 * If you want to force the defaults on every page load, the code needs altering.

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 * [uncheck](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/uncheck/)

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