WordPress is full of fun things we can manipulate the things according to our needs from the dashboard to prevent user get confused. We seen, How to add Menu and Submenu in WordPress admin panel in our previous blog. WordPress admin dashboard full with lots of menu and submenu like Dashboard, Media, Post, Page, Comment, Appearance, Plugins, User and many more. In some scenario we need to remove the menu from the admin panel like you dont need 3rd party plugin menu either default menu
remove_menu_page( string $menu_slug )
This will removes a top-level admin menu.
Example usage:
remove_menu_page( 'tools.php' )remove_menu_page( 'plugin_menu_slug' )
$menu_slug string Required
The slug of the menu.
array|false The removed menu on success, false if not found.
Remove contact form 7 menu from admin panel
add_action( 'admin_init', function () {
remove_menu_page( 'edit.php?post_type=participants-database' );
remove_menu_page( 'wpcf7' );
});
Remove Menu items by pagehttps://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/remove_menu_page/
/**
* Removes some menus by page.
*/
if ( ! function_exists( 'deregister_post_type' ) ) {
function wpdocs_remove_menus(){
remove_menu_page( 'index.php' ); //Dashboard
remove_menu_page( 'jetpack' ); //Jetpack*
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', 'wpdocs_remove_menus' );
?>
do_action( ‘admin_init’ )
Fires as an admin screen or script is being initialized. (
admin_initis fires before any other hook when a user accesses the admin arena.)
Remove post type from wordpress
Suppose we have a registered post type named “blog” and need to remove this from the admin panel then just follow these codes.
add_action( 'init', 'deregister_post_type' );
if ( ! function_exists( 'deregister_post_type' ) ) {
function deregister_post_type() {
unregister_post_type( 'blog' );
}
}
do_action( ‘init’ )
This will fires after WordPress has been finished the loading but before any headers are sent.
Remove submenu page items
remove_submenu_page( 'plugin_menu_slug', 'plugin_submenu_slug' )
/**
* Remove the Widgets submenu page.
*/
function remove_the_wp_menu() {
$page = remove_submenu_page( "edit.php?post_type=blog", 'add-new' );
}
add_action( 'admin_menu', 'remove_the_wp_menu', 999 );
add_action -> Add a callback function to your action hook.
admin_menu -> Fires earlier than the admin menu is loaded in Admin.add_action -> admin_menu
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References
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/remove_menu_page/remove_submenu_page()https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/unregister_post_type/
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