WordPress Tip: Remove Items from the Admin Menu

Posted on 14 February 2014 by Clive Walker in WordPress

I wrote this post a while back. The content can still be relevant but the information I've linked to may not be available.

Yesterday I was working on a WordPress site and a question came up about removing (or hiding) top level items from the Admin Menu (for all users). This is what I've used in other projects:

function edit_admin_menus() {
   remove_menu_page('page-you-want-to-remove.php');
}
add_action( 'admin_menu', 'edit_admin_menus' );

Change page-you-want-to-remove.php to the page you want to hide. Put the code in your functions.php file. That should be it.

WordPress Codex: remove_menu_page function

Comments

Iain:

14 Feb 2014 19:07:25

Good tip Clive but using functions.php for such tweaks should be avoided. Check out http://dev7studios.com/adding-code-customisations-wordpress-the-right-way/.

Clive Walker:

14 Feb 2014 19:33:03

Thanks Iain, that looks like a really useful method. I would normally only edit a child theme functions.php but your approach is better. Cheers!

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