For a WordPress project I would like to hide (remove) a particular menu (or menus in the future) in the WP dashboard area (the admin area);
For example: Posts menu;
How can I do it?
I would prefer to use some PHP code as a function as I have child theme and can modilfy the functions.php file for it.
Thanks
P.s. Down below is a screenshot of the wordpress menu I want to hide:
In your child's WordPress theme in the functions.php file add the following code:
/* Remove menus from the WordPress dashboard*/ function wpdocs_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 remove_menu_page('edit.php?post_type=project'); //Projects } add_action('admin_menu', 'wpdocs_remove_menus');
I've used the admin_menu WordPress hook (line #16);
For your case you can see the code on line #4 - for the Posts menu.
You can alsoread and see this link
For menus that are NOT related to the WordPress core (Pages, Posts, etc.) you can also use the admin_init (on line 8 below) hook;
In that case you must type the folder or the file of the plugin or the theme;
See the screenshot of what I mean (see line 4 for the Yoast WP plugin):
Here I am hiding:
- Divi theme menu
- WP Yoast SEO menu
- Activity Log plugin
Here is the example (see the comments in the code below):
/* Hide plugin/theme/menu in the WordPress dashboard area */ function wpdocs_remove_menusTwo() { remove_menu_page('et_divi_options'); //Divi WP Theme remove_menu_page('wpseo_dashboard'); //Yoast SEO WP Plugin remove_menu_page('activity_log_page'); //Activity Log WP Plugin } add_action('admin_init', 'wpdocs_remove_menusTwo');
BTW, if you want a particular user (in my case administrator with id=1) NOT TO BE ABLE to see a menu (generated by a plugin), see the code below (see line #3):
/* Hide plugin/theme/menu in the WordPress dashboard area */ function wpdocs_remove_menusTwo() { if (get_current_user_id() == 1) { remove_menu_page('activity_log_page'); //Activity Log WP Plugin } } add_action('admin_init', 'wpdocs_remove_menusTwo');