Remove ACF from Wp-admin Menu

• wleefro

• November 7, 2013 at 3:24 am

Hey,

I am trying to remove the ACF page from the wp-admin menu using remove_menu_page('edit.php?post_type=acf'); in my functions.php file.

This used to work fine up until updating to 3.7.1 and ACF 4.3. I am using the remove_menu_page for other pages and they are not being displayed. Any ideas?

• Elliot

• November 7, 2013 at 2:38 pm

Hi @wleefro

Something strange has happened in WP 3.7.1 in regards to menu functions.

I’ll take a look.

Thanks
E

• Ernst Jansen

• November 25, 2013 at 7:48 am

Hi wleefro & Elliot,

I stumbled upon this problem myself today whilst preparing a website for delivery to a client.

The thing that appears to have changed in WP is the order in which the “add_action” for triggering the function with the “remove_menu_page” to remove the ACF menu item is executed.

This used to be after the “add_menu_page” that is used within the ACF plugin, but now it runs before the menu item is added so it is not removed in the end.

So what I’ve simply done to make it work is change the order (priority) for my removal function to ‘999’ so it is executed after ACF adds the item to the menu:

	function remove_acf_menu() {
		remove_menu_page('edit.php?post_type=acf');
	}
	add_action( 'admin_menu', 'remove_acf_menu', 999);

It might be a good idea to update the following “How to” page with this information since I also ended up on that page whilst searching:

http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/how-to/how-to-hide-acf-menu-from-clients/

• Elliot

• November 25, 2013 at 11:31 am

Hi @info@bytemotion.nl

Thanks for the code. I’ll update the docs.

Cheers
E

• MajorPayne

• August 28, 2014 at 2:02 am

docs were never updated so many thanks to Ernst for posting a working method.

However I add this to the functions.php and now no one, including me as admin, can see the Custom Fields menu 🙁

• VoiD2008

• August 28, 2014 at 11:28 pm

function remove_acf_menu(){
  global $current_user;
  if ($current_user->user_login!='admin'){
    remove_menu_page( 'edit.php?post_type=acf' );
  }
}
add_action( 'admin_menu', 'remove_acf_menu', 100 );

• danstramer

• December 18, 2015 at 8:05 am

The URL of the ACF page has changed to this:
edit.php?post_type=acf-field-group

So updating the function will make it work again:

function remove_acf_menu(){
  global $current_user;
  if ($current_user->user_login!='admin'){
    remove_menu_page( 'edit.php?post_type=acf-field-group' );
  }
}
add_action( 'admin_menu', 'remove_acf_menu', 100 );

And just a general tip – please do no use “Admin” as the admin username of your wordpress site. It’s a security thing…

• ih8gates

• November 16, 2017 at 5:49 am

I recognize that this is an old thread, but wanted to add something that I constructed using this info that I found handy. I used ACF to add a true/false field to user forms. I called it “show_custom_fields_admin”. Then I use the above code in conjunction with the value of that true/false field to hide or display the ACF menu.

function remove_acf_menu(){
  global $current_user;
  $show = get_field('show_custom_fields_admin',$current_user);
  if (!$show){
    remove_menu_page( 'edit.php?post_type=acf-field-group' );
  }
}
add_action( 'admin_menu', 'remove_acf_menu', 100 );

When adding the true/false field to the user form, be sure to show it only if the user’s role is “admin”.