Remove main editor from wordpress edit page screen

Question

Hi

Anyone know of a way to remove the main editor from the page edit screen? And not just with css. I've added a few other meta boxes with the tinymce and they collide with the main one.

I have a class that removes other meta boxes from the edit screen, but I cant get rid of the main editor this way. I've tried to add 'divpostrich' and 'divpost' to the array in the class (but with no luck):

class removeMetas{
    public function __construct(){
        add_action('do_meta_boxes', array($this, 'removeMetaBoxes'), 10, 3);
    }

    public function removeMetaBoxes($type, $context, $post){
        /**
         * usages
         * remove_meta_box($id, $page, $context)
         * add_meta_box($id, $title, $callback, $page, $context = 'advanced', $priority = 'default')
         */
        $boxes = array( 'slugdiv', 'postexcerpt', 'passworddiv', 'categorydiv',
                        'tagsdiv', 'trackbacksdiv', 'commentstatusdiv', 'commentsdiv',
                        'authordiv', 'postcustom');

        foreach ($boxes as $box){
            foreach (array('link', 'post', 'page') as $page){
                foreach (array('normal', 'advanced', 'side') as $context){
                    remove_meta_box($box, $type, $context);
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

$removeMetas = new removeMetas();

I have also tried removing the 'divpostrich' with jquery. But cant figure out where to put the js for it to work. When I remove the 'postdivrich' in the browser with firebug - my remaining tinymce fields work perfect.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Couldn't you just disable the TinyMCE editor, leaving the HTML editor, as your meta boxes are colliding with it? :)