Removing posts and comments from Wordpress

Question

I am using a plugin which creates both a custom post type for all my "posts" data and also another plugin which entirely handles the commenting system. Therefore I would like to entirely hide the comments and posts section from the site.

I currently have the following function:

function remove_admin_menus() {
        remove_menu_page( 'edit-comments.php' );
        remove_menu_page( 'edit.php' );
    }

However this doesn't seem to do anything. Do I need to call this function anywhere to make it actually remove the menu items?

Answer 1

You need to "hook" it to an action, in this case admin_menu:

add_action( 'admin_menu', 'remove_admin_menus' );

Just place it right after the function.