How to Hide Buttons within the Media Window in WordPress

Do you want to hide buttons and input fields within the media attachment window? Adding this snippet to the functions.php of your WordPress theme will help you to easily do that.

Instructions:

All you have to do is add this code to your theme’s functions.php file or in a site-specific plugin:

function attachment_fields($form_fields, $post) {
    if ( substr( $post->post_mime_type, 0, 5 ) == 'image' ) {
        $form_fields['image_alt']['value'] = '';
        $form_fields['image_alt']['input'] = 'hidden';
        $form_fields['post_excerpt']['value'] = '';
        $form_fields['post_excerpt']['input'] = 'hidden';
        $form_fields['post_content']['value'] = '';
        $form_fields['post_content']['input'] = 'hidden';
        $form_fields['url']['value'] = '';
        $form_fields['url']['input'] = 'hidden';
        $form_fields['align']['value'] = 'aligncenter';
        $form_fields['align']['input'] = 'hidden';
        $form_fields['image-size']['value'] = 'thumbnail';
        $form_fields['image-size']['input'] = 'hidden';
        $form_fields['image-caption']['value'] = 'caption';
        $form_fields['image-caption']['input'] = 'hidden';
        $form_fields['buttons']['input'] = 'hidden';
    }
    return $form_fields;
}
add_filter('attachment_fields_to_edit', 'attachment_fields', 15, 2 );

Note: If this is your first time adding code snippets in WordPress, then please refer to our guide on how to properly copy / paste code snippets in WordPress, so you don’t accidentally break your site.

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