How can I remove unnecessary menu links from wordpress admin area

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1. Place this code in your themes function.php file and customize as you need

   /* Remove unnecessary menu items from admin */
   function remove_menus () 
   {
       global $menu;
   
       //$restricted = array(
       //  __('Dashboard'), 
       //  __('Posts'), 
       //  __('Media'), 
       //  __('Links'), 
       //  __('Pages'), 
       //  __('Appearance'), 
       //  __('Tools'), 
       //  __('Users'), 
       //  __('Settings'), 
       //  __('Comments'), 
       //  __('Plugins'));
   
       $restricted = array(__('Links'),__('Media'),__('Appearance'),__('Tools'),__('Posts'));
       end ($menu);
       while (prev($menu)) {
           $value = explode(' ',$menu[key($menu)][0]);
           if(in_array($value[0] != NULL ? $value[0] : "" , $restricted)){unset($menu[key($menu)]);}
       }
   
       remove_submenu_page('edit.php','edit.php');
       remove_submenu_page('edit.php','post-new.php');
       remove_submenu_page('index.php','update-core.php');
   }
   add_action('admin_menu', 'remove_menus');
   

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2. Add this to the functions.php file:

   add_action('admin_menu', 'remove_menus');
   function remove_menus () {
   
       //remove pages
       remove_menu_page('edit.php'); //posts
       remove_menu_page('link-manager.php'); //links
       remove_menu_page('edit-comments.php'); //comments
   
       //add pages
       add_menu_page('New Page Title', 'New Title in Menu', 'administrator', 'new_page_title', 'f_new_page', $icon_url, 31);
       function f_new_page() { include(get_template_directory_uri() . '/new_page.php';
   }
   

   More info on removing:
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/remove_menu_page

   Too add a new menu page, check out the following for an explanation on the variables:
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_menu_page

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