Hide admin tabs: HiddenTabs #

This page is for administrators who want a simpler admin on one siteaccess, for example an editor siteaccess. Two settings take a tab out of the admin's top menu or the node view, whatever added it. Added 2026-10-01.

Before, a siteaccess could restate the list of tabs but never remove an extension's tab: extensions append their tabs, and the settings of an extension in ActiveExtensions[] are read after a siteaccess's.

Settings #

• [TopAdminMenu] HiddenTabs[] is read by the topmenu template operator (the top menu).
• [WindowControlsSettings] HiddenTabs[] is read by window_controls.tpl of admin, admin3 and admin4 (the node view's tabs).

The tab identifiers are the entries of Tabs[] and AdditionalTabs[], for example dashboard, design, roles.

Example: no Design menu and no Layouts node tab #

settings/siteaccess/<admin-like siteaccess>/menu.ini.append.php:

<?php /*
[TopAdminMenu]
HiddenTabs[]
HiddenTabs[]=design
*/ ?>

settings/siteaccess/<admin-like siteaccess>/admininterface.ini.append.php:

<?php /*
[WindowControlsSettings]
HiddenTabs[]
HiddenTabs[]=layouts
*/ ?>

Then clear the INI cache:

php bin/php/ezcache.php --clear-tag=ini --allow-root-user

Reload the admin: the Design tab and the node view's Layouts tab are gone on that siteaccess only.

Find every place that reads the settings:

grep -rn HiddenTabs kernel design settings

Design, Audit and Dashboard without their tabs (admin4) #

In admin4, hiding design or audit loses no page: the Setup menu and the Setup overview then show a Design or an Audit group with the tab's links, and the tab's pages mark the Setup tab. Without dashboard the logo leads to the dashboard. See Moving a tab into Setup. Clear the template cache as well: the menus compile the settings in.

The shipped editor siteaccess #

The editor siteaccess uses both settings. It hides explayouts_ui_dashboard, setup, design, gitmanager, xrowextract, bccie_overview and syndication in the top menu, and layouts in the node view. See the setup wizard and the editor siteaccess.

Changed on the same day #

• The node view shows each additional tab once. A tab that an extension appended twice used to appear twice.
• The dashboard, its menus and the top tabs show a link only to a user who can open it; see admin links follow permissions.
• The Store sidebar ([Leftmenu_shop] in menu.ini) lists Dashboard, Orders, Products overview, Product statistics and Product categories first.

Related pages #

• Admin links follow permissions
• The admin4 design
• Setup wizard and editor siteaccess
• Upgrade checklist of 1-2 October 2026
• 6.0.15 changelog
• October 2026 chronicle