Removing the advanced menu properties

Question

As I'm often involved with people who don't know anything about WordPress, a CMS or even the internet :) I try to hide things irrelevant (for them) as much as possible.

Normally this would involve removing a meta box here and there, but I have to admit, I'm sort of stuck on the WP menu system.

Would anyone know perhaps a way to remove the fields marked in red (picture)?

Answer 1

This is a core function in wp-admin/includes/nav-menu.php. You can either hide the items with CSS or use the myEASYhider plugin here. IIRC, in order to actually override core functions, it must be done from a plugin rather than functions.php, so either way you'll be using a plugin that could potentially be turned off by the end user. Perhaps it would be better (if not easier) to train the client on what these functions do and when they will or won't be using them?

Answer 2

As mentioned in a previous comment, I went for a jQuery solution:

add_action( 'admin_footer-nav-menus.php', 'cor_advanced_menu_properties' );
/**
 * Hides the `nav-menus.php` 'advanced menu properties'
 */
function cor_advanced_menu_properties() {
?>
<script>
  jQuery("h5:contains('Show advanced menu properties')").next('.metabox-prefs').remove();
  jQuery("h5:contains('Show advanced menu properties')").remove();
</script>
<?php
}

If someone knows perhaps a better alternative, or if any optimizations to this snippet can be made, I'd be more than happy to listen :)