Title: Remove Customize from Admin Menu
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Remove Customize from Admin Menu

 *  [Taylor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brainfreez/)
 * (@brainfreez)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-customize-from-admin-menu/)
 * Wanting to remove the “customize” menu link.
 * I’ve already got the header and background removed but can’t for the life of 
   me figure out how to remove the customize menu under Appearance.

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 *  [Eric](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ekazda/)
 * (@ekazda)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-customize-from-admin-menu/#post-4254221)
 * Try using the following:
 *     ```
       function remove_menus(){
         remove_submenu_page( 'themes.php', 'customize.php' );
       }
       add_action( 'admin_menu', 'remove_menus' );
       ```
   
 * Let me know if that works.
 * Also, can you share how you removed the Header and Background links?
 *  Thread Starter [Taylor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brainfreez/)
 * (@brainfreez)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-customize-from-admin-menu/#post-4254222)
 * Thanks…found another solution since then and moved on. 🙂
 * Here is what we did for the background..can’t seem to find the one for the header
   but I’m sure it’s similar if you do a quick search for the related code:
 *     ```
       //Remove the custom options provided by the default twentytwelve theme.
       add_action( 'after_setup_theme','remove_twentytwelve_options', 100 );
       function remove_twentytwelve_options() {
   
       	remove_custom_background();
   
       	remove_action('admin_menu', 'twentytwelve_theme_options_add_page', 11);
   
       }
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [Taylor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brainfreez/)
 * (@brainfreez)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-customize-from-admin-menu/#post-4254223)
 * By the way, this is the code we used for the Customize area:
 *     ```
       function remove_submenus() {
         global $submenu;
         unset($submenu['index.php'][10]); // Removes 'Updates'.
         unset($submenu['themes.php'][5]); // Removes 'Themes'.
         unset($submenu['customize.php'][1]); // Removes 'Themes'.
         unset($submenu['options-general.php'][30]); // Removes 'Customize'.
       	unset($submenu['options-general.php'][40]); // Removes 'Customize'.
   
       }
       ```
   
 *  [qassimdev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/qassimdev/)
 * (@qassimdev)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-customize-from-admin-menu/#post-4254281)
 *     ```
       function remove_customize_page(){
       	global $submenu;
       	unset($submenu['themes.php'][6]); // remove customize link
       }
       add_action( 'admin_menu', 'remove_customize_page');
       ```
   
 * Have fun 🙂

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