Best Practice to Remove WordPress Post Columns in All Posts List – WordPress Tutorial

WordPress will display title, author, categories and tags et al in all posts list, is there a way to remove some columns?

In this tutorial, we will introduce a simple way to remove some post columns for your.

Open your wordpress theme functions.php

We will add some php codes in functions.php file to remove wordpress post columns.

Add code below in functions.php

add_filter('manage_posts_columns', 'remove_column');
function remove_column($defaults) {
    unset($defaults['author']);
    unset($defaults['categories']);
    unset($defaults['comments']);
    return $defaults;
}

In this code, we will remove author, categories and comments columns.

Then you will find this result.

Meanwhile, if you want to remove tags and date columns, you can add code in remove_column() function.

unset($defaults['tags']);
unset($defaults['date']);