I want to hide some menus on admin panel: Appearance, Plugins, and Tools.
How to hide it without plugin?
And how can I un-hide them later easily?
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I don't quite understand your question about un-hiding it. By removing the functions in my answer below, they should reappear.– iyrinFeb 13, 2014 at 6:33
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For all roles and capabilities?– Brad DaltonFeb 13, 2014 at 10:58
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You can do this with remove_menu_page. Add the appropriate menu slug in your functions.php of your theme or your plugin.
<?php remove_menu_page( $menu_slug ) ?>
Note that users can still access these menus using a direct link. If you intend to block a user from accessing a menu, you will have to set up a user role and make sure they don't have the relevant capabilities.
Here is a list of slug examples for the menus included in a clean WordPress install.
<?php
function remove_menus(){
remove_menu_page( 'index.php' ); //Dashboard
remove_menu_page( 'edit.php' ); //Posts
remove_menu_page( 'upload.php' ); //Media
remove_menu_page( 'edit.php?post_type=page' ); //Pages
remove_menu_page( 'edit-comments.php' ); //Comments
remove_menu_page( 'themes.php' ); //Appearance
remove_menu_page( 'plugins.php' ); //Plugins
remove_menu_page( 'users.php' ); //Users
remove_menu_page( 'tools.php' ); //Tools
remove_menu_page( 'options-general.php' ); //Settings
}
add_action( 'admin_menu', 'remove_menus' );
?>
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Does this also remove them from the admin bar on the front end for logged in users? Feb 13, 2014 at 10:59
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@RyanLoremIpsum: how if we only hide post->tag? (not all menu post) Feb 13, 2014 at 11:27
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I don't understand the question. If you are asking about how to remove a sub menu item "Tags" from the "Posts" menu in the admin panel, this can be done with
remove_submenu_page( $menu_slug, $submenu_slug );. Examples can be found at remove submenu page in WordPress codex.– iyrinFeb 13, 2014 at 11:37 -
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can do it with remove_menu_page()
try out these locations
This is a nice chunk of code from Bill Erickson's Core Functionality plugin.
/**
* Remove Menu Items
* @since 1.0.0
*
* Remove unused menu items by adding them to the array.
* See the commented list of menu items for reference.
*
*/
function ni_remove_menus () {
global $menu;
// Example:
//$restricted = array(__('Dashboard'), __('Posts'), __('Media'), __('Links'), __('Pages'), __('Appearance'), __('Tools'), __('Users'), __('Settings'), __('Comments'), __('Plugins'));
end ($menu);
while (prev($menu)){
$value = explode(' ',$menu[key($menu)][0]);
if(in_array($value[0] != NULL?$value[0]:"" , $restricted) {
unset($menu[key($menu)]);
}
}
}
add_action( 'admin_menu', 'ni_remove_menus' );
Uncomment the restricted array and include the menu items you'd like to hide. The example contains all the menu items for reference.
