Title: 4.0 Hide Menu Items
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# 4.0 Hide Menu Items

 *  Resolved [No3x](https://wordpress.org/support/users/no3x/)
 * (@no3x)
 * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/40-hide-menu-items/)
 * Hi David Gewirtz,
 * First of all: before posting this issue I did a little research to avoid duplicate
   question – I found some really upset and rude questioners. I’m sorry for this–
   you did a great job moving this plugin forward.
 * I would like to hide these menu items in the admin menu bar. They are very annoying.
   Would be great to hide them via settings and access them in a different way.
   
   For me this is the only reason to not upgrade to 4.0.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/seamless-donations/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/seamless-donations/)

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 *  Plugin Author [David Gewirtz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgewirtz/)
 * (@dgewirtz)
 * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/40-hide-menu-items/#post-6249588)
 * Yeah, life is like that sometimes. 🙂
 * Do you mean the Donor, Donations, and Funds post types? Because they’re now post
   types, WordPress defaults to putting them in the menu, but I’ll look into that
   as an option. Yours is the second request for that.
 * –David
 * P.S. Won’t happen right away. Waiting for the basic upgrade to settle down and
   fixing functional bugs first. But I can see how folks might want to tuck them
   away.
 *  Thread Starter [No3x](https://wordpress.org/support/users/no3x/)
 * (@no3x)
 * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/40-hide-menu-items/#post-6249589)
 * Yes that’s what I mean. Thank you!
 *  [photocoen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/photocoen/)
 * (@photocoen)
 * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/40-hide-menu-items/#post-6249726)
 * I second the hiding of the Donor, Donations, and Funds post types from the main
   menu and bring them back again under the Seamless Donation menu.
 * Adventurous greetings,
    Coen
 *  Plugin Author [David Gewirtz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgewirtz/)
 * (@dgewirtz)
 * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/40-hide-menu-items/#post-6249762)
 * Thinking about it. I did some tinkering with the idea this weekend and it may
   futz with some other settings. If I can get it to work without ripple breakage,
   I may make it a “Use condensed menus” option in settings.
 * Okay, here’s my other thought, and I’d love your opinion. I could just leave 
   it as-is and move on, and then every user would have menus in a reliable location.
   But if I give some users a condensed menu option and others use it in the regular
   mode, support would be harder, tutorials and videos would have menus in different
   places, and who knows what might break.
 * Is it worth it, really, to potentially cause these added issues just to tuck 
   some menu items away, especially when WordPress likes each custom post type represented
   in a menu.
 * The modern school of app and product design advocates one option and one option
   only, to simplify the overhead of code and software. Changing this up, given 
   a design decision has already been made (whether you agree with it or not) is
   one of those complexity additions that tends to go either way.
 * This is a design question as much as anything else, and I’d welcome your input
   in terms of the trade-offs between the two approaches.
 *  [photocoen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/photocoen/)
 * (@photocoen)
 * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/40-hide-menu-items/#post-6249787)
 * Design must be as simple as possible -> less = more.
 * For me this is simple. Even if you have just a few plug ins activated, you would
   want to get all the same stuff under one tree. So all Seamless Donation stuff
   would be logical to put under one menu on the side under that name.
 * I have for example the AdRotate plugin and also uses ads as custom posts. And
   Groups as a custom thing. All these are under one umbrella menu on the sidebar.
 * And I guess this happens with most plugins, they put all their stuff under their
   umbrella menu.
 * I don’t see the gain in having a clutter of different single menu items that 
   could well be under one tab.
 * My 2 cents…
 * Adventurous greetings,
    Coen
 *  [photocoen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/photocoen/)
 * (@photocoen)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/40-hide-menu-items/#post-6249818)
 * Donations, Donors & Funds also show up now on the Menu Setup, where it shouldn’t
   I think…
 * Adventurous greetings,
    Coen
 *  Plugin Author [David Gewirtz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgewirtz/)
 * (@dgewirtz)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/40-hide-menu-items/#post-6249821)
 * Actually, they should. For example, what happens if you want a menu of all your
   funds. With custom post types, you can now do that.
 *  Thread Starter [No3x](https://wordpress.org/support/users/no3x/)
 * (@no3x)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/40-hide-menu-items/#post-6249881)
 * Hi Guys. I waited some time expecting this issue would kinda sort out itself (
   of course this will not happen). I created a little helper plugin to hide the
   CPT menu entries. Now it would be cool when clicking the tabs in the settings
   they would open the CPT.
    David, is there a filter or something to archive this?(
   Overwriting the tab link or the tab content) With a little help from your side
   I could integrate this whole thing as feature with setting. What do you think
   about this?
 *  Plugin Author [David Gewirtz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgewirtz/)
 * (@dgewirtz)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/40-hide-menu-items/#post-6249882)
 * I actually implemented this, but it does some very weird things to how the sidebar
   formats. Not enough time to dig into it now, but it’s on the list.
 *  Thread Starter [No3x](https://wordpress.org/support/users/no3x/)
 * (@no3x)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/40-hide-menu-items/#post-6249883)
 * Great news! If you like I could look into this.
 *  Plugin Author [David Gewirtz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgewirtz/)
 * (@dgewirtz)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/40-hide-menu-items/#post-6249884)
 * I’ll let you know. I’m using Admin Page Framework and I’ve been getting some 
   help from the author — I have an open discussion with him now:
 * [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-custom-post-types-under-the-settings-menu-revisted?replies=3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-custom-post-types-under-the-settings-menu-revisted?replies=3)
 * But if I come up dry, I’ll be glad to shout out to you. Can always use help!
 * Thanks for the generous offer.
 * –David
 *  Thread Starter [No3x](https://wordpress.org/support/users/no3x/)
 * (@no3x)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/40-hide-menu-items/#post-6249885)
 * I added another CPT and did not experience any display errors. I was not able
   to get the CPT in the tab (as shown in the image) but I created a [image](https://no3x.de/web/?attachment_id=1360)
   for clarification at least.
    If this it what you want to do you could add this
   to the support case, since miunosoft might not understood what you want to archive.
 *  Plugin Author [David Gewirtz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgewirtz/)
 * (@dgewirtz)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/40-hide-menu-items/#post-6249886)
 * Thanks, I posted it there as well. As for the display errors, try it with three
   CPTs. Please let me know. If you don’t see any errors, and are willing to do 
   some testing, I’ll show you what to uncomment in 4.0.8 to see if you’re encountering
   the same problems.
 * Thanks for your help!
 * –David
 *  Thread Starter [No3x](https://wordpress.org/support/users/no3x/)
 * (@no3x)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/40-hide-menu-items/#post-6249887)
 * Also 3 CPT are fine! Just send me your current development version which shows
   this strange behaviour so we are sure we talk about the same.
    Or maybe specify“
   weird things to how the sidebar formats”. [But I can’t confirm](https://no3x.de/web/?attachment_id=1363)“(
   as in menu items move when the mouse rolls over them, the whole thing acts like
   its been corrupted and doesn’t know that items aren’t there).” for my state.
 *  Thread Starter [No3x](https://wordpress.org/support/users/no3x/)
 * (@no3x)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/40-hide-menu-items/#post-6249889)
 * Hi David,
    stumbled upon [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=60&v=Q01Is3F3yFs).
   Perhaps this is related?

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/40-hide-menu-items/#post-6249889)
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