Title: screen_settings
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: February 24, 2026

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# apply_filters( ‘screen_settings’, string $screen_settings, WP_Screen $screen )

## In this article

 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/screen_settings/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/screen_settings/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/screen_settings/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/screen_settings/?output_format=md#changelog)
 * [User Contributed Notes](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/screen_settings/?output_format=md#user-contributed-notes)

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Filters the screen settings text displayed in the Screen Options tab.

## 󠀁[Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/screen_settings/?output_format=md#parameters)󠁿

 `$screen_settings`string

Screen settings.

`$screen`[WP_Screen](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_screen/)

[WP_Screen](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_screen/) object.

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/screen_settings/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    $this->_screen_settings = apply_filters( 'screen_settings', $this->_screen_settings, $this );
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-screen.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/6.9.4/src/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-screen.php#L1021)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/6.9.4/src/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-screen.php#L1021-L1021)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/screen_settings/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Used by | Description | 
| [WP_Screen::show_screen_options()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_screen/show_screen_options/)`wp-admin/includes/class-wp-screen.php` |  |

## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/screen_settings/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [3.0.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/3.0.0/) | Introduced. |

## 󠀁[User Contributed Notes](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/screen_settings/?output_format=md#user-contributed-notes)󠁿

 1.  [Skip to note 2 content](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/screen_settings/?output_format=md#comment-content-6289)
 2.   [neosoir](https://profiles.wordpress.org/neosoir/)  [  3 years ago  ](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/screen_settings/#comment-6289)
 3. [You must log in to vote on the helpfulness of this note](https://login.wordpress.org?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fdeveloper.wordpress.org%2Freference%2Fhooks%2Fscreen_settings%2F%23comment-6289)
    Vote results for this note: 0[You must log in to vote on the helpfulness of this note](https://login.wordpress.org?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fdeveloper.wordpress.org%2Freference%2Fhooks%2Fscreen_settings%2F%23comment-6289)
 4. Hide specific screen setting (in this case Woocommerce download option).
 5.     ```php
        add_filter( 'screen_settings', function ( $screen_settings, $screen ) {
    
            global $wp_meta_boxes;
            unset( $wp_meta_boxes['shop_order']['normal']['default']['woocommerce-order-downloads'] );
    
        }, 10, 2 );
        ```
    
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