Title: Remove theme options feature
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Remove theme options feature

 *  Resolved [t_kelley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t_kelley/)
 * (@t_kelley)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-theme-options-feature/)
 * Really great theme!
 * I was wondering if there’s an easy way to remove the Theme Options feature from
   the admin area. I tried commenting out where it’s referenced in the functions.
   php but that didn’t work.

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 *  Theme Author [Anthony Hortin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ahortin/)
 * (@ahortin)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-theme-options-feature/#post-5811440)
 * Commenting out the lines in functions.php where it loads the Options Framework
   will remove the Theme Options from the theme (ie. The Options Framework wont 
   load). The problem with doing this though is that there are numerous places within
   the theme that call Options Framework functions to retrieve the stored vales 
   from the database. You’d need to go through the theme and remove all those calls
   as well. As an example, it retrieves all the saved social media url’s when displaying
   the social media icons.
 * So yes, technically it is possible, but you’d need to modify the theme in numerous
   places.
 *  Theme Author [Anthony Hortin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ahortin/)
 * (@ahortin)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-theme-options-feature/#post-5811442)
 * If the reason that you want to remove the theme options is to hide it from client
   sites (so they can’t modify/break things), then you might want to simply use 
   a plugin to hide the Theme Options menu option. There are numerous plugins available
   that allow you to hide Dashboard menus. This plugin itself can then be added 
   as a ‘must use’ plugin so that it can’t simply be deactivated from within the
   dashboard.
 * See: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Must_Use_Plugins](http://codex.wordpress.org/Must_Use_Plugins)

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