Hide Admin posts & pages in Dashboard

Question

Is it possible somehow to hide Admin's pages & posts from dashboard so that other users will only view/list non-admin publications?

Answer 1

The WordPress admin area uses capabilities to determine which user role can see what pages etc. You can use custom written code or several plugins to control to capabilities by each user. I'd suggest using the Members plugin for some easy control.

Answer 2

Yes, it is possible to hide admin's pages and posts from the WordPress dashboard for other users. You can do it with custom code. Place this code in your theme's function.php file:

IMPORTANT: Make sure to leave the minus sign before the user id in the code below, that is what tells WordPress to exclude that user's post from the queries.

function wpb_hide_admin_posts_pre_get_posts($query) {
    if (is_admin() && !current_user_can('administrator')) {
        $query->set('author', '-1'); // Replace '1' with the admin's user ID. (the id of the user you want to EXCLUDE), leave the minus sign to exclude that user
    }
}

add_action('pre_get_posts', 'wpb_hide_admin_posts_pre_get_posts');

Remember to replace 'author', '-1' with the actual user ID of the admin. You can find the user ID in the WordPress users section in the dashboard. This code checks if the current user is not an administrator and modifies the query to exclude posts/pages by the specified author (admin in this case).