How to remove menus in WordPress dashboard

by Jean-Baptiste Jung on January 3, 2010

Simply paste the following code into the functions.php file of your theme. The following example will remove all menus named in the $restricted array.

function remove_menus () {
global $menu;
	$restricted = array(__('Dashboard'), __('Posts'), __('Media'), __('Links'), __('Pages'), __('Appearance'), __('Tools'), __('Users'), __('Settings'), __('Comments'), __('Plugins'));
	end ($menu);
	while (prev($menu)){
		$value = explode(' ',$menu[key($menu)][0]);
		if(in_array($value[0] != NULL?$value[0]:"" , $restricted)){unset($menu[key($menu)]);}
	}
}
add_action('admin_menu', 'remove_menus');

Thanks to hungred for this very useful trick! This recipes was previously featured in Cats Who Code 10 WordPress dashboard hacks article.

Enought said, I wish to all of you and your families a wonderful year 2010!

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How to remove menus in WordPress dashboard