Sometimes you might need to remove posts, pages, plugins or other menus and submenus from the WordPress dashboard.
Here’s two handy functions put together to remove all by Chris_O over at StackExchange.
Simply add these to the functions.php file in your WordPress theme then delete or comment out whichever options you don’t wish to use.
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add_action( ‘admin_menu’, ‘remove_admin_menus’ );
add_action( ‘admin_menu’, ‘remove_admin_submenus’ );
//Remove top level admin menus
function remove_admin_menus() {
remove_menu_page( ‘edit-comments.php’ );
remove_menu_page( ‘link-manager.php’ );
remove_menu_page( ‘tools.php’ );
remove_menu_page( ‘plugins.php’ );
remove_menu_page( ‘users.php’ );
remove_menu_page( ‘options-general.php’ );
remove_menu_page( ‘upload.php’ );
remove_menu_page( ‘edit.php’ );
remove_menu_page( ‘edit.php?post_type=page’ );
remove_menu_page( ‘themes.php’ );
}
//Remove sub level admin menus
function remove_admin_submenus() {
remove_submenu_page( ‘themes.php’, ‘theme-editor.php’ );
remove_submenu_page( ‘themes.php’, ‘themes.php’ );
remove_submenu_page( ‘edit.php’, ‘edit-tags.php?taxonomy=post_tag’ );
remove_submenu_page( ‘edit.php’, ‘edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category’ );
remove_submenu_page( ‘edit.php’, ‘post-new.php’ );
remove_submenu_page( ‘themes.php’, ‘nav-menus.php’ );
remove_submenu_page( ‘themes.php’, ‘widgets.php’ );
remove_submenu_page( ‘themes.php’, ‘theme-editor.php’ );
remove_submenu_page( ‘plugins.php’, ‘plugin-editor.php’ );
remove_submenu_page( ‘plugins.php’, ‘plugin-install.php’ );
remove_submenu_page( ‘users.php’, ‘users.php’ );
remove_submenu_page( ‘users.php’, ‘user-new.php’ );
remove_submenu_page( ‘upload.php’, ‘media-new.php’ );
remove_submenu_page( ‘options-general.php’, ‘options-writing.php’ );
remove_submenu_page( ‘options-general.php’, ‘options-discussion.php’ );
remove_submenu_page( ‘options-general.php’, ‘options-reading.php’ );
remove_submenu_page( ‘options-general.php’, ‘options-discussion.php’ );
remove_submenu_page( ‘options-general.php’, ‘options-media.php’ );
remove_submenu_page( ‘options-general.php’, ‘options-privacy.php’ );
remove_submenu_page( ‘options-general.php’, ‘options-permalinks.php’ );
remove_submenu_page( ‘index.php’, ‘update-core.php’ );
}
http://www.ajom.co.uk/2013/09/remove-menus-and-submenus-from-the-wordpress-dashboard/#.U9rEqPldXFD