Hide submenus based on role

  • moose123

    (@moose123)


    8 years, 7 months ago

    I know there have been many discussion on hiding submenus based on role, but I cannot seem to get it to work in a way that hides submenus for the editor role in my multisite but not for other roles.

    I am trying to hide:

    Appearance > Themes
    Appearance > Customize
    Appearance > Header
    Appearance > Background

    I only want editors to have access to Widgets and Menus. I thought the below would work but it hasn’t:

    $role = get_role( 'editor' );
}

function my_remove_menu_pages() {
	if(!current_user_can('editor')) {
		remove_submenu_page ('themes.php', 'themes.php');
	        remove_submenu_page ('themes.php', 'custom-header');
                remove_submenu_page( 'themes.php', 'custom-background');
	}
}
add_action( 'admin_init', 'my_remove_menu_pages' );

    I appreciate any help.

    Thanks!

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  • Thread Starter moose123

    (@moose123)

    8 years, 7 months ago

    I was able to solve this. I’m sure there’s a MUCH more elegant way to do it, but this is what I did to hide all but “Menus” and “Widgets” from both the fly-out menu and from the top-level menu. After adding a new role and a new capability to that role, I keyed off that new capability to filter out the menus:

    // remove some menus and sub-menus for editor
$cap = 'no_see_menus';
function edit_admin_menus() {
    global $submenu;
		if(!current_user_can($cap)){
			remove_menu_page('tools.php');
	    remove_submenu_page('themes.php','themes.php');
			remove_submenu_page('themes.php','customize.php?return=%2Fic%2Fwp-admin%2F' );
			remove_submenu_page('themes.php','customize.php?return=%2Fic%2Fwp-admin%2Findex.php' );
			remove_submenu_page('themes.php','customize.php?return=%2Fic%2Fwp-admin%2Fwidgets.php');
			remove_submenu_page('themes.php','customize.php?return=%2Fic%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost-new.php%3Fpost_type%3Dpage');
			remove_submenu_page('themes.php','customize.php?return=%2Fic%2Fwp-admin%2Fnav-menus.php');
			}
}
add_action( 'admin_menu', 'edit_admin_menus' );

// remove custom backgound and custom header menus and sub-menus for editor
$cap = 'no_see_menus';
function remove_twentyeleven_options(){
		if(!current_user_can($cap)){
				remove_custom_background();
				remove_custom_image_header();
			}
}
add_action( 'after_setup_theme','remove_twentyeleven_options', 100 );
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