Removing access to WooCommerce Settings for a Custom User Role

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Problem: I have a custom user role that has access to the WooCommerce admin menu. I would like to remove the "Settings" and "Extensions" submenu items from the WooCommerce admin menu for this user role.

Solution: Add the following code to your functions.php file:

add_action( 'admin_menu', 'remove_menu_pages', 999);
function remove_menu_pages() {
  global $current_user;
  
  $user_roles = $current_user->roles;
  $user_role = array_shift($user_roles);
  if($user_role == "user-role-slug") {
    $remove_submenu = remove_submenu_page('woocommerce', 'wc-settings');
    $remove_submenu = remove_submenu_page('woocommerce', 'wc-addons');
  }
}

Edit "user-role-slug" to use the proper slug for your custom user role, and add or remove $remove_submenu lines to remove the desired page submenus. The slugs for each page can be found in wp-admin URLs as shown in the attached screenshot below.

Relevant Documentation: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/remove_submenu_page

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This topic contains 5 replies, has 2 voices.

Last updated by Christian Cox 7 years, 6 months ago.

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May 11, 2017 at 3:45 pm #523132

Alex Cespedes

I am trying to: Remove access to Woocommerce settings for a custom role define as "Reception"

I visited the wordpress dashboard as the user, but they still have access to "Settings" under woocommerce menu.

I tried using the following code inserted into my functions.php file but it doesn't work. I tried the code with both 'woocommerce_settings' and 'wc-settings' in the code. Still doesn't work.

add_action( 'admin_menu', 'remove_menu_pages', 999);
function remove_menu_pages() {
global $current_user;
 
$user_roles = $current_user->roles;
$user_role = array_shift($user_roles);
if($user_role == "Reception") {
$remove_submenu = remove_submenu_page('woocommerce', 'woocommerce_settings');
}
}

May 11, 2017 at 7:10 pm #523186

Christian Cox

Hi, if you go to Toolset > Access Control, then click Custom roles and edit your Reception role, you can find a WooCommerce tab here. Inside this tab, you can uncheck "Manage Settings". This will remove the WooCommerce menu item from the admin area for this user type. Is this what you're trying to do, or are you trying to remove only the settings submenu?

May 11, 2017 at 7:26 pm #523189

Alex Cespedes

I would like to remove only the "Settings" submenu within WooCommerce but leave access to the other submenus.

Thanks

May 11, 2017 at 7:42 pm #523197

Christian Cox

Okay, then try "reception" instead of "Reception" and "wc-settings" as the page slug:

if($user_role == "reception") {
  $remove_submenu = remove_submenu_page('woocommerce', 'wc-settings');
}

This works for Reception user role in my local instance, but it may also depend on the permissions you inherited when you created the Reception role. If you run into problems, let me know and I'll take another look.

May 11, 2017 at 8:01 pm #523205

Alex Cespedes

That worked, thanks!! If I wanted to also remove access to "Extensions" submenu under Woocommerce, what would I need to do?

May 11, 2017 at 8:11 pm #523210

Christian Cox

You can copy and paste the remove_submenu line and change out the page slug for any submenu page (see screenshot for location of slug).

$remove_submenu = remove_submenu_page('woocommerce', 'wc-settings');
$remove_submenu = remove_submenu_page('woocommerce', 'wc-addons');