{"id":3349305,"date":"2013-01-10T13:43:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T13:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/remove-media-categories-submenu-item\/"},"modified":"2016-08-20T19:57:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T19:57:42","slug":"remove-media-categories-submenu-item","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/remove-media-categories-submenu-item\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove Media &gt; Categories submenu item"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For future reference. You can remove the Media &gt; Categories submenu item with the following function in your functions.php:<\/p>\n<pre><code>function remove_media_categories_menu_item () {\n    global $submenu;\n    unset($submenu[&#039;upload.php&#039;][17]);\n}\nadd_action( &#039;admin_init&#039;, &#039;remove_media_categories_menu_item&#039; );<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>If I&#8217;m correct, this is WP &lt; 3.1 style. The WP &gt; 3.1 remove_submenu_page( $menu_slug, $submenu_slug ) as follows didn&#8217;t work for me:<\/p>\n<p><code>remove_submenu_page( &#039;uploads.php&#039;, &#039;edit-tags.php&#039; );<\/code><\/p>\n<p>and neither did<\/p>\n<p><code>remove_submenu_page( &#039;uploads.php&#039;, &#039;edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category&amp;post_type=attachment&#039; );<\/code><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/media-categories-2\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-3349305","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/3349305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/3349305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3349305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}