How to remove posts from admin sidebar in wordpress

Question

I was wondering how to remove the posts section from the wordpress admin sidebar (see image below)

Answer 1

you will be needing to edit functions.php for this and add some code in that. This section of posts lies as edit.php

See the official wordpress codex documentation for remove_menu_page() function to understand better. Doc states function usage as:

<?php remove_menu_page( $menu_slug ) ?> 

Here $menu_slug is edit.php for post menu.

Now create your own function called post_remove() and add code in functions.php as:

function post_remove ()  {     remove_menu_page('edit.php'); }  

The next part is to hook your post_remove() function with a specific action which in this case is admin_menu to trigger this function. For that, add some more code in functions.php:

add_action('admin_menu', 'post_remove'); 

So in short, following is complete code that you need to add in your functions.php file:

function post_remove ()      //creating functions post_remove for removing menu item {     remove_menu_page('edit.php'); }  add_action('admin_menu', 'post_remove');   //adding action for triggering function call 

Official documentation links

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/remove_menu_page http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_action

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