Hide more meta boxes by default

[ryan]

The edit post screen can be confusing with all of the meta boxes. Let's hide some of them by default. I suggest hiding Excerpt, Trackbacks, and Custom Fields.

[mdawaffe]

+1

[Viper007Bond]

+1

[ryan]

[15555]

[nacin]

Let's hide some more. Maybe discussion, comments, author? Is it crazy to suggest revisions, too?

[Viper007Bond]

I was going to disagree with you, but then I thought about it and I think I agree. I think we should keep revisions though shown by default.

[nacin]

I would tend to agree for revisions, but I think we can segregate by post type and surely hide them for pages.

[ryan]

Hide everything except taxonomy.

[jane]

Fine.

[ryan]

(In [15976]) Hide more meta boxes by default. fixes #14212

[nacin]

(In [16246]) Hide the slugdiv by default for custom post types. Restores behavior toggled in [15555]. see #14212.

[nacin]

(In [17225]) More room for your content! Increase default post edit rows as the meta boxes are all hidden by default. see #14212.

[nacin]

(In [17294]) Hide the many extraneous meta boxes for pages by default too. see #14212.

[linuxologos]

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