Daily Tip: How to Hide the WordPress Screen Options Tab

This tip comes to your courtesy of our friends over at WP-Snippets.com. When it comes to WordPress post editing, sometimes the fewer options for tinkering with, the better. There are users who can get confused by all that’s available in the editor.

This snippet of code will completely remove the Screen Options tab from the administrator area.

Drop this into the functions.php file of your theme:

// Hide admin 'Screen Options' tab
function remove_screen_options_tab()
{
    return false;
}
add_filter('screen_options_show_screen', 'remove_screen_options_tab');

Many thanks to WP-Snippets.com for this handy piece of code. Visit their site for more quick and easy WordPress hacks.