The question:
I have written some long descriptions for a custom category taxonomy. I don’t want to remove them, I just want to hide it from the management page:
/wp-admin/term.php?taxonomy=custom_category
I could use CSS to hide the class “column-description”, but I don’t know how to only apply it to this taxonomy.
The Solutions:
Below are the methods you can try. The first solution is probably the best. Try others if the first one doesn’t work. Senior developers aren’t just copying/pasting – they read the methods carefully & apply them wisely to each case.
Method 1
You could target the edit form for the post_tag taxonomy, through the post_tag_edit_form
hook:
/**
* Hide the term description in the post_tag edit form
*/
add_action( "post_tag_edit_form", function( $tag, $taxonomy )
{
?><style>.term-description-wrap{display:none;}</style><?php
}, 10, 2 );
Here you can also target an individual tag.
If you need something similar for other taxonomies, you can use the {taxonomy_slug}_edit_form
hook.
Update
It looks like the question was about the list tables, not the edit form.
I dug into the list tables in WorPress and found a way to remove the description column from the term table in edit-tags.php
/**
* Remove the 'description' column from the table in 'edit-tags.php'
* but only for the 'post_tag' taxonomy
*/
add_filter('manage_edit-post_tag_columns', function ( $columns )
{
if( isset( $columns['description'] ) )
unset( $columns['description'] );
return $columns;
} );
If you want to do the same for other taxonomies, use the manage_edit-{taxonomy_slug}_columns
filter.
Method 2
The cleanest way to do that, removing the description field from the edit screen also in the add screen:
function hide_description_row() {
echo "<style> .term-description-wrap { display:none; } </style>";
}
add_action( "{taxonomy_slug}_edit_form", 'hide_description_row');
add_action( "{taxonomy_slug}_add_form", 'hide_description_row');
Of course you need to replace {taxonomy_slug} with your taxonomy slug.
Method 3
If you also need to hide the description field in the add form use this code
/**
* Hide the term description in the edit form
*/
add_action( '{taxonomy_slug}_add_form', function( $taxonomy )
{
?><style>.term-description-wrap{display:none;}</style><?php
}, 10, 2 );
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