Remove Tools Menu

This plugin does exactly what the title says, when activated it will remove the Tools menu from your WordPress Admin navigation menu. If you need import, export or if any of your plugins add sub-items into it, simply deactivate the plugin, do your thing, then re-enable the Remove Tools Menu plugin to remove Tools menu item again and keep it out of your way. NOTE: there are certain plugins that add things to the Tools menu… those obviously won’t show up either but the plugin still does what it was built to do. Have fun.

1. Upload the remove-tools-menu folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the Remove Tools Menu plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

2.4.0

Release Date – 2025-06-26

• Tested to WP 6.8.1

2.3.1

Release Date – 2017-11-24

• Tested to WP 4.9

2.3

Release Date – 2017-03-29

• tested up to WP 4.8
• Security so it’s not accessed directly w/o wp loading

2.2

• Tested to WP 4.2

2.0

• Changed filter when plugin runs – was causing issues with media library display from post insert
• Also took out legacy crap and made this plugin require WP version 3.1+

1.2

• Updated to admin_init action hook. Works either way but the new correct way is init.
• Little code cleanup and readme update
• No new features, does the same thing 🙂

1.1

• Now checks if remove_menu_page function exists and uses that if it does and will default to older method if not.

1.0

• Initial release