Title: remove posting ability
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# remove posting ability

 *  [nulion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nulion/)
 * (@nulion)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-posting-ability/)
 * is there a way, plugin or hack, that i can remove the posting area in the admin
   interface?
 * i want to setup wordpress as a page-based (no posts) cms for someone and would
   like to only have the features they need.

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 *  [Peter Butler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peterebutler/)
 * (@peterebutler)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-posting-ability/#post-1033201)
 * If you’re ok with editing core files (I’m not sure if there’s a way to do this
   without editing the core – if there is, I’d love to hear about it!), just open
   up wp-admin/menu.php, and look for this code block:
 *     ```
       $menu[5] = array( __('Posts'), 'edit_posts', 'edit.php', '', 'wp-menu-open menu-top', 'menu-posts', 'div' );
       	$submenu['edit.php'][5]  = array( __('Edit'), 'edit_posts', 'edit.php' );
       	$submenu['edit.php'][10]  = array( _c('Add New|post'), 'edit_posts', 'post-new.php' );
       	$submenu['edit.php'][15] = array( __('Tags'), 'manage_categories', 'edit-tags.php' );
       	$submenu['edit.php'][20] = array( __('Categories'), 'manage_categories', 'categories.php' );
       ```
   
 * Comment that whole block out, so it looks like this:
 *     ```
       /*
       $menu[5] = array( __('Posts'), 'edit_posts', 'edit.php', '', 'wp-menu-open menu-top', 'menu-posts', 'div' );
       	$submenu['edit.php'][5]  = array( __('Edit'), 'edit_posts', 'edit.php' );
       	$submenu['edit.php'][10]  = array( _c('Add New|post'), 'edit_posts', 'post-new.php' );
       	$submenu['edit.php'][15] = array( __('Tags'), 'manage_categories', 'edit-tags.php' );
       	$submenu['edit.php'][20] = array( __('Categories'), 'manage_categories', 'categories.php' );
       */
       ```
   
 * and the entire posts menu will dissapear.
 *  [sojweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sojweb/)
 * (@sojweb)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-posting-ability/#post-1033203)
 * Beat me to it 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [nulion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nulion/)
 * (@nulion)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-posting-ability/#post-1033564)
 * thanks for the quick reply and the help guys

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 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [nulion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nulion/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-posting-ability/#post-1033564)
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