Turn WordPress into a non-blogging CMS platform. Disable Blogging is a plugin that disables all blog related functionalities (posts, comments, feeds, etc.) on the front-end and back-end. This results in a cleaner and simpler WordPress platform to be used for static websites.
Posts, Comments, and other blog related menu items are removed from sidebar and toolbar and redirected to Pages menu. Additionally, it also changes the following:
- Removes blog related widgets
- Removes blog related meta boxes on the Dashboard
- Removes Posts and Comments columns
- Disable "Press This and post-by-email"
- Change & hide all blogging options in WordPress' settings
- and so more...
Note: Links to previous posts will still be accessible and previous comments will be hidden from view.
All author pages (../author=?) redirect to the the homepage. This helps prevent user enumeration - a common technique hackers use to revel usernames.
This includes pingbacks, trackbacks, and [https://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_Support].
Hide unused fields and options from the Profile page to reduce clutter. This includes custom fields created by plugins and themes.
Hide unused menu items created by plugins or themes, and redirect them elsewhere. Additional options include:
- Hide menu dashicons
- Hide menu separators, which is the spacing between some of the menu items
- Remove "Help" tabs from the admin header
- Remove the "Howdy," greeting in the admin bar next to the username
- Have query string version removed form static resources
- Before:
../twentysixteen/style.css?ver=4.6.1 - After:
../twentysixteen/style.css
- Before:
- Remove code in header used to disable for emoji support
- Remove or modify the admin footer
This plugin does not delete any data on WordPress. It simply hides and disables those features that are blog related. If you have any existing, posts, comments, categories and tags on your website; they must be manually deleted if you do not want to keep any of that information. All plugin features can be enabled or disabled in the plugin's settings (Settings > Blogging).
Want to help improve this plugin? Head over to our GitHub page. A special thanks to those who've contributed so far: Piet Bos, SECT, cjbj
- Upload the plugin to the
../wp-content/plugins/directory. - Activate the plugin through the
Pluginsmenu in WordPress. - Let it settle in a for a minute and be amazed.
By default all blogging functionality are disabled. However, these options can be updated in the plugin's Settings > Blogging.
No, this plugin simply disables, hides, and redirects all of the blogging functions. You can easily revert WordPress back to a blogging platform by simply disabling the plugin.
- Navigate to the
Users>Your Profile - Open up your browser's web inspector (ex: Chrome)
- Use the element selector and select the label on the left side of field that you want to hide, for example:
<label for="first_name">First Name</label>
- For each
<label for=tag, you will find the ID's of each field, for example:
first_name
- Navigate to the parent menu that you want to hide
- If you look at the URL of the menu item, you will see the menu slug, for example:
http://example.com/wp-admin/upload.php(Media)http://example.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=custom-plugin
- At the end of each URL you will list them as the following in the option:
upload.phpcustom-plugin
Note: Currently only the parent menu items can be hidden, entering the submenu slugs will not work.
This plugin tries its best to disable all blogging related features, if something is missed, please mention it in our support forum or on our GitHub repository.