Disable WP Dashboard Access For Users

[dudeincolorado]

Is there a way to hide the left part of the WP top toolbar for basic buddy press subscribers so that they can not access the dashboard?

[sharmstr]

You’re sort of asking two things here.

1 – Remove the link.

2 – Block access to the backend.

If someone is familiar with wordpress, they can still get to the backend even if you’ve removed the link to it.

Those are both WP specific questions and there are plugins for both. With that said, here’s some code to get you started.

1 – To remove the link you use $wp_admin_bar->remove_menu() in your functions.php file. Example

COPY CODE

function remove_admin_bar_links() {
	global $wp_admin_bar;
	$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('wp-logo');
	$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('site-name');
	$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('new-content');
}
add_action( 'wp_before_admin_bar_render', 'remove_admin_bar_links' );

2 – I personally use the adminimize plugin to control what is displayed based on user type. https://wordpress.org/plugins/adminimize/ Its granular which makes it a bit overwhelming and probably overkill for your requirement. Do a search for either a code snippet or a simple plugin.

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[dudeincolorado]

There are a mind boggling number of WP plugins out there… Thanks for the help

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