Removing the admin bar and backend from normal users like here on CSS Tricks

[WMEric]

Hello Everyone,

I was wondering how does CSS Tricks completely hide the whole backend and dashboard so well?

Thanks

[Senff]

What do you mean by “hide the backend” exactly?

[WMEric]

Sorry, I mean like hiding the dashboard from logged in users and such.

I pretty much have a general idea using:

methods like current_user_can(‘role here’)

I don’t think there’s a good reason to have a user looking at the dashboard.

Thanks for the reply :)

[Alen]

Add add_filter( 'show_admin_bar', '__return_false' ); to your functions.php file.

[gilgimech]

You can use this

add_action( 'init', 'blockusers_init' );

function blockusers_init() {
    if ( is_admin() && ! current_user_can( 'administrator' ) && 
       ! ( defined( 'DOING_AJAX' ) && DOING_AJAX ) ) {
        wp_redirect( home_url() );
        exit;
    }
    if( ! current_user_can( 'administrator' ) ) {
        add_filter( 'show_admin_bar', '__return_false' );
    }
}

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