Remove Categories/Tags in WordPress

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Remove Categories/Tags in WordPress

This code completely removes the category & tag taxonomies from WordPress which are available by default.

Instructions

Put this snippet within your functions.php within your WordPress theme.

functions.php

<?php

/**
 * Disable default taxonomies
 */
function mytheme_remove_taxonomies() {
    register_taxonomy( 'post_tag', array() );
    register_taxonomy( 'category', array() );
}

add_action('init', 'mytheme_remove_taxonomies');