activefantasies

Thanks for your input!

I’ve had a good dig round and read through those pages, I’m happy knocking up (very) basic plugins or integrating into my theme. I guess ideally, I’m hoping for some kind of hook before each metabox is rendered whereby it checks its Screen Options setting, which could be used to force the box to display.

AH! Just had a brainwave while writing that, and came up with a hacky CSS solution, if you add this to functions.php:

function hide_screen_options() {

	echo '<style>
	    .postbox {
			display:block !important;
		}
		.postbox.acf-hidden {
			display: none !important;
		}
		#screen-options-link-wrap {
			display:none !important;
		}';
}

add_action('admin_head', 'hide_screen_options');

…it adds a bit of CSS to the admin page code which sets all metaboxes (.postbox) to display:block and hide the Screen Options tab. I immediately ran into some issues with a behind the scenes Advanced Custom Fields box displaying (which is fixed by the second CSS statement), so I think this brute-force approach is probably not a permanent solution. I’ll give it a go for now, until someone on here tells me how to do it better 🙂

For the benefit of others I’ll reiterate: I just made this and it’s almost entirely untested and will break stuff. I’m posting it here as a starting point and emergency solution – hopefully, there’s a cleaner way to deactivate this functionality rather than plaster over it with CSS.

Thanks again to EMG for setting the cogs whirring. Cheers, chief.