I want to allow a volunteer access to the WordPress Dashboard to do some agreed upon work. However I do not want them to have access to the Members plugin. To this point I have only been able to limit their access t Roles, they still see the Members menu with all options except roles. How do I keep them from seeing the Members menu at all or at least how do I keep them from seeing the settings option?
To keep your volunteer from seeing the Members menu or its settings, you’ll need to deny all the role-related capabilities for their user role. Please go to Users → Edit Capabilities for that role and set options like Create Roles, Edit Roles, Delete Roles, and List Roles to Deny.
As an alternative, if you’d prefer to hide the menu completely, you can also add the following code snippet to your theme’s functions.php file or a custom plugin:
add_action('admin_menu', function() { if (current_user_can('volunteer')) { remove_menu_page('members'); // Members menu slug } }, 999);
With this approach, users assigned to the “volunteer” role won’t see the Members menu at all.
Thanks @omarelhawary I had already marked the User setting to Deny so Roles is not displayed. I tried the code snippet you provided and replaced ('volunteer') with the name of the Role where I don’t want the Members menu to display in the dashboard but it did not hide the menu. Below is screenshot of my functions.php file I added the snippet at the end. Please advise on what I should do to hide the menu. TIA
I replaced the spaces in the role name with _ as shown in your latest post, however it did not remove the Members menu from the dashboard for people assigned that role.
add_action(‘admin_menu’, function() { if (current_user_can(‘Administrator_No_GiveWP’)) { remove_menu_page(‘members’); // Members menu slug } }, 999);
FYI I previously also tried renaming the Role adding the _ in place of the spaces in the role name and in the functions.php file without any success.
Thanks for your persistence in helping me to get this resolved.
I was able to resolve this problem using the following code in my themes Functions.php file:
function custom_remove_members_menu_for_role() { // Replace ‘administrator_no_givewp’ with the actual slug of your custom role $target_role = ‘administrator_no_givewp’; $current_user = wp_get_current_user();
// Check if the current user has the target role
if ( in_array( $target_role, (array) $current_user->roles ) ) {
// Remove the main Members menu
remove_menu_page( 'members' );
}
