I need to customize the admin panel for my user. So how do I remove the entire admin menu? Not remove the menu item, I mean entirely remove the left vertical menu bar, include the design of the menu (eg, css, background..etc). I want it become blank.
I can do it by css hack. But I prefer to use hook to do it. Any ideas?
Answer
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.
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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' );
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Screenshot of left menu using the above 2 functions:
