---
title: "How to Hide Menu Options in Your Community"
description: "Learn how to customize your community's navigation by hiding specific menu options from your members using the Community Admin Panel."
url: https://help.group.app/en/articles/173-how-to-hide-menu-options-in-your-community
collection: "Community Management"
updated: 2026-10-18
language: en
---

# How to Hide Menu Options in Your Community

Learn how to customize your community's navigation by hiding specific menu options from your members using the Community Admin Panel.

This guide explains how to hide specific menu options from members in your community.

## Hiding Menu Options From Members

**Step 1:** Navigate to the **Admin Panel.**

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**Step 2:**  Click **Appearance** and select **Branding.**

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**Step 3:** Navigate to the **Menus** tab.

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**Step 4:** The Menus page displays all menu items that can be hidden from community members.

**Left-side navigation menu items:**

-   Courses Tab
    
-   Library
    
-   Feed
    
-   Events Tab
    
-   Newsletters Tab
    
-   Invite members
    
-   People Directory
    

**Top bar and account options:**

-   Direct Messages
    
-   Profile
    
-   Billing
    

**What happens when you hide these:**

-   Hiding Direct Messages removes the option to view and send messages from the top bar.
    
-   This is different from disabling messages, which stops messaging but keeps existing conversations.
    
-   Hiding Profile removes the option for members to edit their profile details.
    
-   Hiding Billing removes access to the billing portal.
    
-   If the People Directory is hidden, members can still search for other members by name using the search field.
    

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**Step 5:** To hide any menu item:

1.  Click on the eye icon
    

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2.  Click on **Hide** in the confirmation pop-up
    

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The selected menu item will now be hidden from community members.