Hide Event Category and Import sub menu items in admin

[Kyle Smiles]

I have tried to remove the Event Category and Import sub menu items in the admin using all of the suggestions on this forum and they don’t work. Please advise how to remove these. Here is my current code in functions.php

function l_remove_menus(){
remove_submenu_page(‘edit.php?post_type=tribe_events’, ‘tribe_events_cat&post_type=tribe_events’); // Event Category
remove_submenu_page(‘edit.php?post_type=tribe_events’, ‘edit.php?post_type=tribe_events&page=aggregator’); // Event Import
}
add_action( ‘admin_menu’, ‘l_remove_menus’, 999 );

Thank you in advance.

[Cliff]

Hi, Kyle.

If you want Event Categories fully removed, you would need to use https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/unregister_taxonomy/

If you just want them hidden from the wp-admin sidebar menu and some other places, you could use the tribe_events_register_event_cat_type_args filter. For example, you might want to change “public” and/or “show_ui” from true to false.

Please let me know how this goes for you.

[Kyle Smiles]

I just want to hide, not remove, the ability for certain users to be able to add/edit Event Categories. So I just want to hide the menu options from them. I know how to do this by role, I just don’t see an easy way to do this. Looking at your post, I couldn’t find any documentation on the tribe_events_register_event_cat_type_args filter. How does it work? Do you have a link to the documentation? Thank you.

[Cliff]

Sorry, Kyle, but I’m confused by “want to hide, not remove, the ability for certain users” and then by “I know how to do this by role”

Would you mind clarifying?

[Kyle Smiles]

I want to have the submenu items “Event Category” and “Import” removed from the admin page and the following isn’t working:

remove_submenu_page(‘edit.php?post_type=tribe_events’, ‘edit-tags.php?taxonomy=tribe_events_cat&post_type=tribe_events’); // Event Category
remove_submenu_page(‘edit.php?post_type=tribe_events’, ‘edit.php?post_type=tribe_events&page=aggregator’); // Event Import

[Cliff]

For everyone (including Admins) or just certain users / user levels?

[Kyle Smiles]

For certain User Levels (i.e. Subscriber).

[Cliff]

Please try this:

https://gist.github.com/cliffordp/d7fd672cd5c003335415ffc0451116fa

Note that it won’t remove the Event Categories metabox from the wp-admin event edit screen.

You’ll also need to modify the current_user_can() to be what you need it to be.

Additionally, please note that, per our Scope of Support / Terms, we don’t normally provide customizations like this, but I was happy to help you on the way to your final solution.

[Kyle Smiles]

That’s what I needed. Thank you Cliff!

[Cliff]

You’re very welcome! 🙂

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