How to remove Admin Menu item in WordPress

WordPress is full of fun things, we can manipulate the things according to our needs from the dashboard to prevent user get confused. We seen, how to add Menu and Submenu in WordPress admin panel in our previous blog. WordPress admin dashboard full with lots of menu and submenu like Dashboard, Media, Post, Page, Comment, Appearance, Plugins, User and many more. In some scenario we need to remove the menu from the admin panel like you dont need 3rd party plugin menu either default menu

remove_menu_page( string $menu_slug )

This will removes a top-level admin menu.

Example usage:

• remove_menu_page( 'tools.php' )
• remove_menu_page( 'plugin_menu_slug' )

$menu_slug string Required

The slug of the menu.

array|false The removed menu on success, false if not found.

Remove contact form 7 menu from admin panel

add_action( 'admin_init', function () {
    remove_menu_page( 'edit.php?post_type=participants-database' );
    //OR
    remove_menu_page( 'wpcf7' );
});

Remove Menu items by page

/**
 * Removes some menus by page.
 */
if ( ! function_exists( 'deregister_post_type' ) ) {
 function wpdocs_remove_menus(){
   remove_menu_page( 'index.php' );                  //Dashboard
   remove_menu_page( 'jetpack' );                    //Jetpack* 
   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', 'wpdocs_remove_menus' );
?>

do_action( ‘admin_init’ )

Fires as an admin screen or script is being initialized. ( admin_init is fires before any other hook when a user accesses the admin arena.)

Remove post type from wordpress

Suppose we have a registered post type named “blog” and need to remove this from the admin panel then just follow these codes.

add_action( 'init', 'deregister_post_type' );
if ( ! function_exists( 'deregister_post_type' ) ) {
	function deregister_post_type() {
		unregister_post_type( 'blog' );
	}
}

do_action( ‘init’ )

This will fires after WordPress has been finished the loading but before any headers are sent.

Remove submenu page items

remove_submenu_page( 'plugin_menu_slug', 'plugin_submenu_slug' )

/**
 * Remove the Widgets submenu page.
 */
function remove_the_wp_menu() {
	$page = remove_submenu_page( "edit.php?post_type=blog", 'add-new' );
}
add_action( 'admin_menu', 'remove_the_wp_menu', 999 );

add_action -> Add a callback function to your action hook.

admin_menu -> Fires earlier than the admin menu is loaded in Admin

add_action -> admin_menu

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