Removing Customizer

[Garrett]

Hello, I’ve used your code snippet (https://www.buddyboss.com/tutorials/customize/) to remove the customizer in a child theme and it’s not working. Is this an outdated article?

[Alyssa]

@devcom I added this to code my child theme functions.php file and verified it still works. This only disables the customizer theme options, the default themeing will still be in place.

[Garrett]

When using a child theme, I don’t want the administrator to be able to use the Theme Customizer – which i why I want to get rid of it. Plus I wrote all my styles in the child theme custom.css sheet as directed.

I can remove the customizer correct? By stating “the default theming will still be in place”, you mean the styles of theme will remain regardless if the customizer is present – which is the impression I’m already under.

Can you verify this what you mean?

[Garrett]

@tjchester

[Varun Dubey]

Hi @devcom, if you need to remove the customize menu for everyone, you will need to add

function remove_customize_page(){
	global $submenu;
	unset($submenu['themes.php'][6]); // remove customize link
}
add_action( 'admin_menu', 'remove_customize_page');

We have also added customize.php link inside the header.php , you will also have to override header.php in child theme and remove following codes from it.

 <a href="<?php echo admin_url('customize.php'); ?>"><?php _e( 'Customize', 'boss' );?></a>

Regards

[Garrett]

@vapvarun Thanks for that. It removes it from the dashboard submenu but still exists on the child theme in Appearance -> Themes. Is there not a way to fully drop support for it?

[Garrett]

@vapvarun

[Varun Dubey]

hi @devcom, You can try this one also, i have tested it , it works with child theme as well
`
function remove_menus(){
remove_submenu_page( ‘themes.php’, ‘customize.php’ );
}
add_action( ‘admin_menu’, ‘remove_menus’ );
‘

[Garrett]

@vapvarun I’m running the latest version of wordpress and that code doesn’t work at all. I put it directly into my child themes function.php.

[Varun Dubey]

Hi @devcom, i have also tested them on latest version of the wp and theme, just for testing , try add both codes at same time inside child theme. These are general wordpress tweaks you can also try to google about them.

[Garrett]

Good Man. Thanks for your help

[Varun Dubey]

Great, I will close this topic.