php function to remove (hide) menu items from "Editor" dashboard

[danielleB]

Unfortunately I'm not a fluent in php syntax, but I did find a little bit of code online that allowed me to add the 'appearance' menu $capability to the Editor dashboard.

// Add 'appearance' capabilities to editors.
$editor = get_role('editor');
// add $cap capability to this role object
$editor->add_cap('edit_theme_options');

This worked fine, but I need to remove or hide sub-items from 'Appearance'. I only want to give Editors access to 'Menus' and 'Widgets' sub-items. I did find a lot of code to globally remove sub-items, but I only want to remove them from the Editor role, and all that I've tried has crashed the site. Would anyone have snippets of code that I could use as a guide? Or a link to help on this issue?

Many thanks,

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Danielle

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[AnitaC]

I'd use a plugin like User Role Editor for something like that - https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/.

Tinkering around in the functions file for things like that could be harmful.

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[andytc]

Keeping the code in place that you've used to change the capability for editors , you can add this to remove > Themes and the Customiser.

// NON ADMIN ROLE APPEARENCE MENU EDITS

if ( ! current_user_can('manage_options') ) {

	// Remove submenu pages for non admins.
	function wpdocs_adjust_the_wp_menu() {
	  $page = remove_submenu_page( 'themes.php', 'themes.php' );
	}

	add_action( 'admin_menu', 'wpdocs_adjust_the_wp_menu', 999 );

	// Remove the customsier
	add_filter('map_meta_cap', function($caps, $cap, $user_id, $args) {
	    if ('customize' == $cap) return ['do_not_allow'];
	    return $caps;
	}, 10, 4);

}

[danielleB]

Thank you, Andy. I owe you a coffee.

Danielle

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Danielle

[danielleB]

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[AnitaC]

@danielleb You marked your message Private so I can only see it. But to answer your question, for me personally, adding things that control the dashboard functionality has always scared me. Not to mention that if you change themes or if the customer decided to change themes later on, that functionality will be lost if you don't remember to add it to the new theme. Or you can use a functionality plugin.

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[andytc]

You’re welcome , I’m happy it’s what you wanted.

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