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Remove Access To Install, Update, Delete, Edit or Switch Themes for Admins

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Brad Dalton

Saw this interesting question on the forums today and wanted to share one solution you may find useful at some stage:

This basically removes all access to the Appearance menu in the WordPress dashboard so admins cannot access any themes and make any changes whatsever.

The toolbar menu will still display a link to the themes page however this is the message that is displayed when that menu link is clicked:

remove theme access

3 responses to “Remove Access To Install, Update, Delete, Edit or Switch Themes for Admins”

  1. Ben S. Avatar
    Ben S.

    It removed the Genesis Theme Editor too.

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  2. Ben S. Avatar
    Ben S.

    I tried this by adding the code into functions.php and it worked. I then removed the code and it has caused the Appearance menu to not reappear. I cleared all cache, logged out/in, and it still doesn’t come back. Any ideas on what to get the Appearance menu to reappear?

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    1. Brad Dalton Avatar
      Brad Dalton

      Change remove to add and add the code again.

      Reply

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