Possible to hide Custom Post Type UI/Menu from specific User Roles?

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What I’m looking to do is completely hide the UI for a custom post type from specific user roles…Ive previously found many resources on how to disable access to using those CPTs but nothing that really allows you to completely hide the CPT UI all together based on what user is logged into the dashboard.

This is important since I need clients to completely stay out of custom post types for the store, and if they can see the store CPT UI in the dashboard still it doesn’t make a difference if their capabilities are restricted since their still going to inquire how they can go about adding product on their own as a result.

Id really prefer to not accomplish this with a plugin however if there is something that can do the trick in a non-bloated way that would still be great I suppose.

Thanks for your help,
SB

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To hide a post type menu item from non-admin users:

function wpse28782_remove_menu_items() {
    if( !current_user_can( 'administrator' ) ):
        remove_menu_page( 'edit.php?post_type=your_post_type' );
    endif;
}
add_action( 'admin_menu', 'wpse28782_remove_menu_items' );

your_post_type should be the name of your actual post type.

EDIT-

other menu pages you can remove:

remove_menu_page('edit.php'); // Posts
remove_menu_page('upload.php'); // Media
remove_menu_page('link-manager.php'); // Links
remove_menu_page('edit-comments.php'); // Comments
remove_menu_page('edit.php?post_type=page'); // Pages
remove_menu_page('plugins.php'); // Plugins
remove_menu_page('themes.php'); // Appearance
remove_menu_page('users.php'); // Users
remove_menu_page('tools.php'); // Tools
remove_menu_page('options-general.php'); // Settings

EDIT 2 –

Removing plugin menu items.

For plugins, it seems you only need the page= query var. The other thing to note is the priority, which is the third argument to the admin_menu add_action. It has to be set low enough (the higher the number, the lower the priority) so that plugins have already added themselves to the menu.

function wpse28782_remove_plugin_admin_menu() {
    if( !current_user_can( 'administrator' ) ):
        remove_menu_page('cart66_admin');
    endif;
}
add_action( 'admin_menu', 'wpse28782_remove_plugin_admin_menu', 9999 );

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