[Plugin: User Role Editor] Controlling Screen Options?

WP doesn’t check user capability to decide if show or hide Screens Options. So URE will not help you directly with it.
But you can use ‘screen_options_show_screen’ filter to fully hide this interface element from user.
Something like this:

function hide_screen_options() {
  return false;
}

add_filter('screen_options_show_screen', 'hide_screen_options');

Interesting… do you know if it’s possible to create a default for any user at the contributor level? Then I can hide it like you say. Then when I create a new user they will see the default that I set up?

I know this is an old post but I’m after the same thing.

The ability to give a certain level/user a default ‘Screen Options’ and better still if that was locked.