Remove menus from WordPress dashboard

If you don’t want to show some menus to your client or some user then you need to remove menus from the WordPress dashboard. Same as the point of hiding dashboard menus in WordPress. The following codes tested under WordPress 3.8.1

Step 1: 

Open the function.php file which sitting in your active theme directory. Paste the following codes.

add_action("admin_menu", "remove_menus", 9999);

function remove_menus()

{

remove_menu_page( "edit.php" ); // Posts

remove_menu_page( "upload.php" ); // Media

remove_menu_page( "edit-comments.php" ); // Comments

remove_menu_page( "edit.php?post_type=page" ); // Pages

remove_menu_page( "plugins.php" ); // Plugins

remove_menu_page( "users.php" ); // Users

remove_submenu_page ( "index.php", "update-core.php" ); //Dashboard->Updates

remove_menu_page( "tools.php" ); // Tools

remove_menu_page( "themes.php" ); // Appearance

//remove_submenu_page ( "themes.php", "themes.php" ); // Appearance>Themes

//remove_submenu_page ( "themes.php", "widgets.php" ); // Appearance>Widgets

//remove_submenu_page ( "themes.php", "theme-editor.php" ); // Appearance>Editor

//remove_menu_page( "options-general.php" ); // Settings

remove_submenu_page( "options-general.php", "options-general.php" ); // Settings->General

remove_submenu_page( "options-general.php", "options-writing.php" ); // Settings->writing

remove_submenu_page( "options-general.php", "options-reading.php" ); // Settings->Reading

remove_submenu_page( "options-general.php", "options-discussion.php" ); // Settings->Discussion

remove_submenu_page( "options-general.php", "options-media.php" ); // Settings->Media

remove_submenu_page( "options-general.php", "options-privacy.php" ); // Settings->Privacy

remove_submenu_page( "options-general.php", "options-permalink.php" ); // Settings->Privacy

remove_menu_page( "gf_edit_forms" ); // Forms

}

Step 2:

If you want to remove menus that added by some plugin like GvityForm you then you need do as the following.

First, click the menu you want to remove and see what is the URL in your browser. If the URL looks like http://YOURDOMAIN-WORDPRESS-SITE/wp-admin/admin.php?page=gf_edit_forms then you need a copy gf_edit_forms .

Second, add the following codes in your function.php.

add_action("admin_menu", "remove_menus", 9999);

function remove_menus()

{

remove_menu_page( "gf_edit_forms" ); // Forms, the parameter is what you copied from the menu's URL.

}

Step 3: 

Some plugin adds menus to option page such as Settings–>XML Sitemaps. To remove these menus, save as above you need to copy the page value in the menus’ URL.

Here is a sample for removing the menu of Google XML Sitemaps. http://YOURDOMAIN-WORDPRESS-SITE/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=google-sitemap-generator/sitemap.php

add_action("admin_menu", "remove_menus", 9999);

function remove_menus()

{

remove_submenu_page( "options-general.php", "google-sitemap-generator/sitemap.php" ); // Google XML Sitemaps

}