register_taxonomy – show in admin menu, but not on post type (edit) screen
As per le comment. function remove_artist_meta() { remove_meta_box( ‘{taxonomy name}’, ‘post’, ‘side’ ); } add_action( ‘admin_menu’ , ‘remove_artist_meta’ ); The Admin menu has been always difficult to deal with, some help here would be nice: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12718 But I think that this could be added a a parameter to register_taxonomy. http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/21543