The correct hook to use is admin_menu and then create a function to remove the menus you want to remove. The following 2 functions remove all the menus.<\/p>\n
add_action( ‘admin_menu’, ‘remove_admin_menus’ );
\nadd_action( ‘admin_menu’, ‘remove_admin_submenus’ );<\/p>\n
\/\/Remove top level admin menus
\nfunction remove_admin_menus() {
\n remove_menu_page( ‘edit-comments.php’ );
\n remove_menu_page( ‘link-manager.php’ );
\n remove_menu_page( ‘tools.php’ );
\n remove_menu_page( ‘plugins.php’ );
\n remove_menu_page( ‘users.php’ );
\n remove_menu_page( ‘options-general.php’ );
\n remove_menu_page( ‘upload.php’ );
\n remove_menu_page( ‘edit.php’ );
\n remove_menu_page( ‘edit.php?post_type=page’ );
\n remove_menu_page( ‘themes.php’ );
\n}<\/p>\n
\/\/Remove sub level admin menus
\nfunction remove_admin_submenus() {
\n remove_submenu_page( ‘themes.php’, ‘theme-editor.php’ );
\n remove_submenu_page( ‘themes.php’, ‘themes.php’ );
\n remove_submenu_page( ‘edit.php’, ‘edit-tags.php?taxonomy=post_tag’ );
\n remove_submenu_page( ‘edit.php’, ‘edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category’ );
\n remove_submenu_page( ‘edit.php’, ‘post-new.php’ );
\n remove_submenu_page( ‘themes.php’, ‘nav-menus.php’ );
\n remove_submenu_page( ‘themes.php’, ‘widgets.php’ );
\n remove_submenu_page( ‘themes.php’, ‘theme-editor.php’ );
\n remove_submenu_page( ‘plugins.php’, ‘plugin-editor.php’ );
\n remove_submenu_page( ‘plugins.php’, ‘plugin-install.php’ );
\n remove_submenu_page( ‘users.php’, ‘users.php’ );
\n remove_submenu_page( ‘users.php’, ‘user-new.php’ );
\n remove_submenu_page( ‘upload.php’, ‘media-new.php’ );
\n remove_submenu_page( ‘options-general.php’, ‘options-writing.php’ );
\n remove_submenu_page( ‘options-general.php’, ‘options-discussion.php’ );
\n remove_submenu_page( ‘options-general.php’, ‘options-reading.php’ );
\n remove_submenu_page( ‘options-general.php’, ‘options-discussion.php’ );
\n remove_submenu_page( ‘options-general.php’, ‘options-media.php’ );
\n remove_submenu_page( ‘options-general.php’, ‘options-privacy.php’ );
\n remove_submenu_page( ‘options-general.php’, ‘options-permalinks.php’ );
\n remove_submenu_page( ‘index.php’, ‘update-core.php’ );
\n}
\nScreenshot of left menu using the above 2 functions:<\/p>\n
enter image description here<\/p>\n
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\nedited Sep 27 ’13 at 6:02<\/p>\n
answered May 15 ’12 at 3:09<\/p>\n
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\nI did find another way by using $GLOBALS[‘menu’] = array();. Giving null in the array will also do the work. \u2013 dev-jim May 15 ’12 at 11:13 <\/p>\n
Where do you put this? \u2013 user26728 Jul 17 ’13 at 14:22<\/p>\n
Anyone noticed the recent drafts from that screen shot? \ud83d\ude09 \u2013 acSlater Sep 24 ’13 at 15:02
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\nFollowing the lead of \/wp-admin\/admin-header.php -> \/wp-admin\/menu-header.php there’s no hook to do it.<\/p>\n
A solution is to hook in admin_head and do some CSS + jQuery<\/p>\n
add_action(‘admin_head’, ‘wpse_52099_script_enqueuer’);
\nfunction wpse_52099_script_enqueuer(){
\n if(!current_user_can(‘administrator’)) {
\n echo < <