Hiding individual menu items in the admin panel
To hide individual menu items in the admin panel you can use a number of plugins or just use the function unset() to remove elements of the global array $submenu.
I think an example should make it clearer.. On my test site in the theme folder in the file functions.php paste the code:
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function remove_submenus() { global $submenu; //Dashboard menu unset($submenu['index.php'][10]); // Removes Updates //Posts menu unset($submenu['edit.php'][5]); // Leads to listing of available posts to edit unset($submenu['edit.php'][10]); // Add new post unset($submenu['edit.php'][15]); // Remove categories unset($submenu['edit.php'][16]); // Removes Post Tags //Media Menu unset($submenu['upload.php'][5]); // View the Media library unset($submenu['upload.php'][10]); // Add to Media library //Links Menu unset($submenu['link-manager.php'][5]); // Link manager unset($submenu['link-manager.php'][10]); // Add new link unset($submenu['link-manager.php'][15]); // Link Categories //Pages Menu unset($submenu['edit.php?post_type=page'][5]); // The Pages listing unset($submenu['edit.php?post_type=page'][10]); // Add New page //Appearance Menu unset($submenu['themes.php'][5]); // Removes 'Themes' unset($submenu['themes.php'][7]); // Widgets unset($submenu['themes.php'][15]); // Removes Theme Installer tab //Plugins Menu unset($submenu['plugins.php'][5]); // Plugin Manager unset($submenu['plugins.php'][10]); // Add New Plugins unset($submenu['plugins.php'][15]); // Plugin Editor //Users Menu unset($submenu['users.php'][5]); // Users list unset($submenu['users.php'][10]); // Add new user unset($submenu['users.php'][15]); // Edit your profile //Tools Menu unset($submenu['tools.php'][5]); // Tools area unset($submenu['tools.php'][10]); // Import unset($submenu['tools.php'][15]); // Export unset($submenu['tools.php'][20]); // Upgrade plugins and core files //Settings Menu unset($submenu['options-general.php'][10]); // General Options unset($submenu['options-general.php'][15]); // Writing unset($submenu['options-general.php'][20]); // Reading unset($submenu['options-general.php'][25]); // Discussion unset($submenu['options-general.php'][30]); // Media unset($submenu['options-general.php'][35]); // Privacy unset($submenu['options-general.php'][40]); // Permalinks unset($submenu['options-general.php'][45]); // Misc } add_action('admin_menu', 'remove_submenus'); |
The code is workable, a hitch may be if you have already installed third party plugins and they added an item to the admin menu. In such cases, you can use the array output function var_dump() and see which items need to be removed.
An example of viewing the menu list in the admin panel:
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function remove_submenus() { global $submenu; echo '<pre>'; var_dump($submenu); echo '</pre>'; } add_action('admin_menu', 'remove_submenus'); |
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