Question

Trying to modify the menu in the dashboard a bit.

I’m trying to remove the toggle option everywhere it’s present, and find someway to force the menus to always be expanded, is this possible? (toggle button: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3618143/toggle.png)

Also want to remove the minimize option (which lets you only show icons in the menu bar). I’ve been able to remove the actual icon, but the functionality is still there (invisible link). So removing the actual image is not the problem, I’ve managed to remove that, the functionality however is still there.
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3618143/minimize.png)

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Have the same need: remove the “un/fold” functionality from the WP admin menu bar, to remove clutter, but without tinkering with the source file.

I found out in wp-admin/menu.php that the separators are stored in index 4,59,99.

Here is the function to add to your functions.php

    function pxln_remove_menu_items() {

            global $menu;

//an array with menus to remove (use their title)
            $restricted = array(__('Posts'),__('Links'), __('Comments'), __('Media'), __('Separator'));

// keys of the unfolders
            unset($menu[4]);
            unset($menu[59]);
            unset($menu[99]);
            end ($menu);
            while (prev($menu)){
                $value = explode(' ',$menu[key($menu)][0]);
                if(in_array($value[0] != NULL?$value[0]:"" , $restricted)) {
                    unset($menu[key($menu)]);
                }
            }
    }

    add_action('admin_menu', 'pxln_remove_menu_items');