How to hide menu on WordPress admin

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1. You can do this with remove_menu_page. Add the appropriate menu slug in your functions.php of your theme or your plugin.

   <?php remove_menu_page( $menu_slug ) ?>

   Note that users can still access these menus using a direct link. If you intend to block a user from accessing a menu, you will have to set up a user role and make sure they don’t have the relevant capabilities.

   Here is a list of slug examples for the menus included in a clean WordPress install.

   <?php
   function remove_menus(){  
   
     remove_menu_page( 'index.php' );                  //Dashboard  
     remove_menu_page( 'edit.php' );                   //Posts  
     remove_menu_page( 'upload.php' );                 //Media  
     remove_menu_page( 'edit.php?post_type=page' );    //Pages  
     remove_menu_page( 'edit-comments.php' );          //Comments  
     remove_menu_page( 'themes.php' );                 //Appearance  
     remove_menu_page( 'plugins.php' );                //Plugins  
     remove_menu_page( 'users.php' );                  //Users  
     remove_menu_page( 'tools.php' );                  //Tools  
     remove_menu_page( 'options-general.php' );        //Settings  
   
   }  
   add_action( 'admin_menu', 'remove_menus' );  
   ?>
   

2. can do it with remove_menu_page()
   try out these locations

   Remove Menu Item in WordPress Admin Panel

   Remove Unwanted Items from the WordPress Admin Sidebar

3. This is a nice chunk of code from Bill Erickson’s Core Functionality plugin.

   /**
    * Remove Menu Items
    * @since 1.0.0
    *
    * Remove unused menu items by adding them to the array.
    * See the commented list of menu items for reference.
    *
    */
   function ni_remove_menus () {
       global $menu;
   
       // Example:
       //$restricted = array(__('Dashboard'), __('Posts'), __('Media'), __('Links'), __('Pages'), __('Appearance'), __('Tools'), __('Users'), __('Settings'), __('Comments'), __('Plugins'));
       end ($menu);
       while (prev($menu)){
              $value = explode(' ',$menu[key($menu)][0]);
              if(in_array($value[0] != NULL?$value[0]:"" , $restricted) {
                  unset($menu[key($menu)]);
              }
       }
   }
   add_action( 'admin_menu', 'ni_remove_menus' );
   

   Uncomment the restricted array and include the menu items you’d like to hide. The example contains all the menu items for reference.

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