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Restrict ‘editor’ menus in admin

This post was last updated: Sep 3, 2020
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//Restrict editor menu visibility in functions.php
function remove_menus () {
    if(is_user_logged_in() && current_user_can('editor'))
    {
        global $menu;
        $restricted = array(__('Dashboard'), __('Posts'), __('Media'), __('Contact'), __('Links'), __('Pages'), __('Appearance'), __('Tools'), __('Users'), __('Settings'), __('Comments'), __('Plugins'));
        end ($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', 'remove_menus');
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