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Remove unnecessary menu items from Wordpress admin.

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Simplify the Wordpress admin area for clients by hiding menu items. Add this snippet to your Wordpress theme's functions.php file.

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  1. /**
  2.  * Clean up admin menu to remove unnecessary items.
  3.  */
  4. function remove_admin_menus () {
  5. 	if (!current_user_can('manage_options')){ // Only proceed if user does not have admin role.
  6. 		remove_menu_page('index.php'); 				// Dashboard
  7. 		remove_menu_page('edit.php'); 				// Posts
  8. 		remove_menu_page('upload.php'); 			// Media
  9. 		remove_menu_page('link-manager.php'); 			// Links
  10. 		remove_menu_page('edit.php?post_type=page'); 		// Pages
  11. 		remove_menu_page('edit-comments.php'); 			// Comments
  12. 		remove_menu_page('themes.php'); 			// Appearance
  13. 		remove_menu_page('plugins.php'); 			// Plugins
  14. 		remove_menu_page('users.php'); 				// Users
  15. 		remove_menu_page('tools.php'); 				// Tools
  16. 		remove_menu_page('options-general.php'); 		// Settings
  17.  
  18. 		remove_submenu_page( 'edit.php', 'edit-tags.php?taxonomy=post_tag' );	// Remove posts->tags submenu
  19. 		remove_submenu_page( 'edit.php', 'edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category' );	// Remove posts->categories submenu
  20. 	}
  21. }
  22. add_action('admin_menu', 'remove_admin_menus');

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