Title: Remove Permalink option menu item
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Remove Permalink option menu item

 *  Resolved [danhgilmore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danhgilmore/)
 * (@danhgilmore)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-permalink-option-menu-item/)
 * I need to remove the ability for folks to change the format of permalinks. I 
   have a plugin that does that, but users can still see the page to change permalinks.
   How do I remove that item from the side menu?
 * The following code does not work for me:
 *     ```
       add_action('admin_init', 'remove_permalink_menu', 999);
       function remove_permalink_menu()
       {
           remove_menu_page('options-permalink.php');
       }
       ```
   

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 *  [Ryan Duff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryanduff/)
 * (@ryanduff)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-permalink-option-menu-item/#post-3671186)
 * Because it’s a submenu page you need to use:
 *     ```
       add_action('admin_init', 'remove_permalink_menu', 999);
       function remove_permalink_menu()
       {
           remove_submenu_page( ‘options-general.php’, ‘options-permalink.php’ );
       }
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [danhgilmore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danhgilmore/)
 * (@danhgilmore)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-permalink-option-menu-item/#post-3671188)
 * Thanks Ryan, that absolutely fixed it. Off to get coffee.
 *  Thread Starter [danhgilmore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danhgilmore/)
 * (@danhgilmore)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-permalink-option-menu-item/#post-3671190)
 * “Users with manage_options cap can still go to the page directly and update the
   permalinks structure.”
 * Yep, but I have another function that prevents the change getting saved to the
   database. I’ll just need to add some text to the top of that page informing users
   they can’t change the settings

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 * [permalink](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalink/)

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 * Last reply from: [danhgilmore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danhgilmore/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-permalink-option-menu-item/#post-3671190)
 * Status: resolved

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