How do I hide the options page?

• kkyang

• January 10, 2015 at 7:33 am

How can I hide the options pages that I add so that only the super admin can see them?

thanks!

• alexvdvegt

• January 11, 2015 at 4:26 am

Hi kkyang,

You can do so by editing the capability of the options page.

Set it to a capability only a super admin has

For example:

$options = acf_add_options_page(array(
		"page_title"    => "Options",
		"menu_title"    => "Options",
		"menu_slug"     => "options-theme",
		"capability"    => "manage_sites",
		"redirect"      => false
		));

For more capabilities see:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#Capability_vs._Role_Table

• kkyang

• January 11, 2015 at 10:56 pm

sweet! is there anything wrong with doing it this way?

if (current_user_can('administrator')) {
		if(function_exists('acf_add_options_page')) { 
			acf_add_options_page();
			acf_add_options_sub_page('Global');
			acf_add_options_sub_page('Home');
			acf_add_options_sub_page('Ads');
			acf_add_options_sub_page('Social Media Widget');
			acf_add_options_sub_page('Calendar Options');
		}
	}

• jvwrx

• January 13, 2015 at 9:51 am

I can’t speak to the functions above, but if you’re looking to do a lot of admin sidebar tweaking, look into the Admin Menu Editor plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/admin-menu-editor. Allows for resorting, hiding, adding, and all sorts of editing to the admin menu. Great for handing off to less-savvy users.