How to hide Admin Tabs?

Question

I'm trying to hide tabs of admin panel like Posts, Pages, etc...

I tried Admin Menu Editor without success.

Answer 1

You could use this code (below is just an example for 3 random tabs)

function disable_user_profile() {
    if ( !current_user_can( 'publish_posts' ) ) { 
        wp_redirect( admin_url('index.php') ); 
    }
}
add_action( 'load-profile.php', 'disable_user_profile' ); // disable profile tab
add_action( 'load-tools.php', 'disable_user_profile' ); // disable tools tab
add_action( 'load-edit.php', 'disable_user_profile' ); // disable posts tab

The if ( !current_user_can( 'publish_posts' ) ) = user capability
The wp_redirect( admin_url('index.php') ); = I put here so they stay in backend, even if they try to add the link to that page in url
The add_action( 'load-profile.php', = tab which should not be accessible.(in this case the profile tab)

If I am correct then the sample here disables the tabs for Contributor and Subscriber.

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Edit
Assuming you won't use this only for your theme but for the whole backend (So it is active also when switching theme's) a sample plugin with the code is to find below. Create a file ie. disable_tabs.php , and use the code below (it is incl. the above sample).

<?php
*Plugin Name: Hide Tabs in Admin panel
*Description: Hiding tabs for certain user levels.
*Author Name: Who ever you want
*
    function disable_user_profile() {
    if ( !current_user_can( 'edit_posts' ) ) { 
        wp_redirect( admin_url('index.php') ); 
    }
}
add_action( 'load-profile.php', 'disable_user_profile' ); // disable profile tab
add_action( 'load-tools.php', 'disable_user_profile' ); // disable tools tab
add_action( 'load-edit.php', 'disable_user_profile' ); // disable posts tab
?>