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Are you looking to declutter your website interface by removing gallery settings that are no longer necessary for your WordPress site? Maybe you’ve been trying out different formats and decided that some gallery features don’t align with your website’s design or functionality. In this article, we’ll guide you through the step-by-step process to safely remove gallery settings from your WordPress website, ensuring a cleaner and more focused user experience.
function wpturbo_remove_gallery_settings() {
add_filter( 'use_default_gallery_style', '__return_false' );
}
add_action( 'init', 'wpturbo_remove_gallery_settings' );
The above PHP code snippet is designed to remove the default styling of WordPress galleries. It creates a function called wpturbo_remove_gallery_settings(), which can then be associated with the WordPress hook ‘init’ via the add_action() function, so it’s executed when the WordPress theme is initialised
Inside of the wpturbo_remove_gallery_settings() function, we use add_filter() which is a native WordPress hooking function allowing you to ‘hook a function’ to a specific filter action. In this snippet, it’s used to modify the default gallery style.
add_filter( 'use_default_gallery_style', '__return_false' );Here, ‘use_default_gallery_style’ is the filter hook. WordPress passes the native gallery styling through this filter, and by adding our custom function to this filter hook, we can modify it.
__return_false is a special WordPress function that, as expected, simply returns false. When the filter is processed, instead of using the default gallery style, WordPress will use whatever the ‘use_default_gallery_style’ filter returns — in this case, false. This effectively tells WordPress not to apply the default gallery styling, leaving you free to implement your own CSS.
Lastly, add_action('init', 'wpturbo_remove_gallery_settings'); invokes our wpturbo_remove_gallery_settings() function during WordPress’s initialization phase, ensuring that our gallery style adjustment is set up each time the theme runs.
Overall, the objective of this code snippet is to provide developers with a blank slate when it comes to WordPress gallery styles, so they can add their own completely custom styles in place of the defaults. In essence, this empowers you to customize the gallery’s look and feel to seamlessly match your project’s requirements.