I can’t find the Screen Options menu when editing blog posts
If you have more than 1 user, you should see an author dropdown on the right under status and visibility. Do you have more than 1 user?
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Enable all Screen Options by default
These are only hidden via CSS, so enqueing your own admin CSS via admin_enqueue_scripts hook to display them should fix it. body.js.wp-admin.wp-core-ui #wpbody .hide-if-js { display: block; }
‘Show on screen’ for custom taxonomies does not save
It’s a bug: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18958
Extend Screen Options
To change or extend the functionality of WordPress Core, WordPress relies heavily on actions and filters. I’ll assume you have basic knowledge of this, and if you don’t, you will after reading up on it in the Codex. render_screen_meta is a public method of the WP_Screen object. You can’t overwrite is by defining the function … Read more
WP Custom Fields Metabox Disappears – ACF plugin issue [closed]
ACF 5.6+ intentionally removes the custom fields metabox to improve performance when loading posts. To display the metabox, add this to functions.php in your theme: add_filter( ‘acf/settings/remove_wp_meta_box’, ‘__return_false’ ); In addition to the above code, make sure that the custom fields metabox is enabled in Screen Options at the top of a post, and that … Read more
Set default screen option for appearance -> menus
This option is stored in the wp_usermeta table with the meta_key name of metaboxhidden_nav-menus. If we hide all the boxes, this is the meta_value of the option: array( “nav-menu-theme-locations”, “add-custom-links”, “add-post”, “add-page”, “add-portfolio”, “add-category”, “add-post_tag”, “add-post_format”, “add-location” ) There is one CPT, portfolio. If we wanted for it to be always visible every time the … Read more
Disabling ‘posts’ in Appearance > Menus
We can use the register_post_type_args filter to adjust how the post post type is displayed in the backend with e.g.: add_filter( ‘register_post_type_args’, function( $args, $name ) { if( ‘post’ === $name ) { // $args[‘show_ui’] = false; // Display the user-interface $args[‘show_in_nav_menus’] = false; // Display for selection in navigation menus $args[‘show_in_menu’] = false; // … Read more
Screen options on a different computer
They do work across many computers, as long as you’re logged in with the same username. If they don’t, try clearing your browser cache.
Hiding Metabox from Screen Options Pull Down
There is no way, at least to my knowledge to unset an option from the screen options panel without unsetting the actual metabox itself. My suggestion would be to target these screen options item via your CSS and hide it from view. Add this to your plugin or functions file. Don’t forget to update ‘METABOXIDNAME’ … Read more
get_current_screen() inside add_action(‘admin_menu’)
I don’t know exactly what you are trying to accomplish but you seem to be dealing with meta boxes. If so there are a number of meta box specific hooks. do_action(‘add_meta_boxes’, $post_type, $post); do_action(‘add_meta_boxes_’ . $post_type, $post); do_action(‘do_meta_boxes’, $post_type, ‘normal’, $post); do_action(‘do_meta_boxes’, $post_type, ‘advanced’, $post); do_action(‘do_meta_boxes’, $post_type, ‘side’, $post); http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.5.1/wp-admin/edit-form-advanced.php#L165 As well as the admin_head* … Read more