Cannot edit the default args of default post types

[sidati]

Hi Devs,

I tried to remove some features from the default post types (eg. post-formats) but since both plugins and theme are called after create_initial_taxonomies and create_initial_post_types, i cannot do a thing.

So i suggest to call theses 2 function after calling at least the plugins, if we consider post-types/taxonomies as a plugin "territories".

[websupporter]

Haven't checked yet, but does remove_post_type_support() not work? ​https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/remove_post_type_support

[sidati]

Replying to websupporter:

Haven't checked yet, but does remove_post_type_support() not work? ​https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/remove_post_type_support

Actually i'm not only using this for removing features but also for changing other settings such as labels and icon ... etc

[websupporter]

I see.

[sidati]

Beside nothing will work even remove_post_type_support cause create_initial_post_types is called before any plugin or theme :P, so if you remove post-formats using the function remove_post_type_support will not remove the metabox on post editor page

Actually it does work because create_initial_post_types is called again on init action, this is little bit tricky

[mr_speer]

Would it make sense to allow these default post/taxo args to be filterable? That way altering labels, support, etc. would be a relatively painless process. I feel like as it is now, doing something as simple as changing "Posts" to "News" is needlessly complicated.

[johnbillion]

The register_post_type_args (and register_taxonomy_args) filter has been available since WordPress 4.4 (see #17447). As mentioned above, the default post types are re-registered on the init hook, so these filters also apply to default post types and taxonomies.

Example usage:

add_filter( 'register_post_type_args', function( array $args, $name ) {
	if ( 'post' === $name ) {
		$args['labels']['menu_name'] = 'News';
	}
	return $args;
}, 10, 2 );

Please feel free to re-open if something about these filters is not working as expected.