I wanted to make the Control Panel as clean as possible for a client, and created a simple extension to hide the “My Account” tab using javascript.
Now my client only has two tabs: ‘publish’ and ‘edit’.

You can choose to keep the tab for Super Admins if you want. (check out the ‘settings’ link)

Cheers.

[EDIT] updated “Remove My Account Tab” extension to version 1.2
[EDIT] added “Remove Sites Tab” Extension

Download links:
Remove My Account Tab
Remove Modules Tab
Remove Sites Tab

Excellent idea for an extension. Too many times when we want to let non-super admins in to add entries, we don’t want to let them fiddle around while they are in there. Thanks!

Yes, awesome. Many thanks!

It appears that this does not play nice with the following two extensions by Mark Huot: File and Live Search.

With this extension enabled, the live search does field does not show up. Worse, when using the File extension, upon saving an entry with a file field, it spews at least a score of errors. (Sorry, I didn’t copy them and I’m too rushed to go back and recreate the problem.)

Just a heads up.

Thanks jnt,

I forgot to add the $EXT->last_call variable to my extension.

You can find the fixed version in my original post.

So… Live Search works again, but the problem you are having with the File extension is a separate issue AFAIK.
I am seeing the same errors, even when no other extensions are installed.

While writing this I updated my 1.0.3 version of Mark’s File extension to 1.0.9 and it seems to work fine now
What version are you using?

Thanks for the quick reply!

I’m on 1.0.9, but haven’t tried re-enabling your extension yet. I’ll report back…

Thank you for this extension! Very handy! One quick question...when I click on “Settings” in the Extensions Manager so that I can keep the tab enabled for Super Admins, I get an error and can’t proceed:

Unable to load the following language file:
/lang.remove_my_account_tab.php

Am I missing a language file?

Oops, sorry about that.

Please download again

I was wondering if you could also make a combined or seperate extension that takes out the module tab in the same way for non super-admins.

I personally go in and add whatever Module non-super admins need as its very own tab that appears between the “Edit” tab and the “Modules” tab in the CP. So, already having individual tabs for the one or two modules that our users need access to makes the “Modules” tab itself useless for those people.

Should be possible, I’ll look into it some time this week.

That would be super cool. Thanks!

I updated this extension to also remove the “New Tab” link that takes you to the “My Account” page.

I also made an extension to remove the Modules Tab, you can find it at the top of this thread.
The link to the Modules page in the breadcrumb of will still take you to the Modules page, but it’s a start.

That’s terrific!! Nice work!

I updated this extension to also remove the “New Tab” link that takes you to the “My Account” page.

Users can still get to the My Account section by clicking the “New Quicklink” icon (the leftmost icon at the top right of the screen, looks like a chain link with a pencil superimposed). Any chance you can update this extension to hide that too?

Yeah, I also found some other ways to get to that page.

I’m looking into a different way to ‘disable’ the page altogether.

I’ll get back to you when I have something.

They can also access the account area via the “Modify This Page” link on the control panel homepage .... is there a way to remove that link?

Hey, Cocoaholic, any way to get this extension to remove the sites tab if someone is not a SuperAdmin?

Hi Sue,

I am going to bundle all these in a “Tab Access” extension when I have some time.

For now I made a separate extension that hides the Sites tab.
It also disables access to that page altogether.

I also updated the “My Account” extension to do the same thing.
Even if you leave the ‘quicklinks’ link in there, people won’t be able to access any part of the “My Account” page.

Download

Thanks, Cocoaholic. It works really well!

When you get all of them bundled, we can make sure there’s a link in the wiki.