Can’t remove Links from WordPress Admin Sidebar

  • Hello, I want to remove the Links Manager from my Sidebar in Admin Area.

    1 Screenshot: https://prnt.sc/tnklx7
    2 Screenshot: https://prnt.sc/tnkm19

    According to this solution: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Links_Manager
    I can remove the Links from admin sidebar by navigating through wp-admin/options.php
    but as you can see in screenshot 2 above this option is no longer present.
    Is the solution at https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Links_Manager no longer working?
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    Removing the Link Manager
    If you upgraded from a version prior to 3.5, you may still have the link manager in the sidebar, even if it is not needed. To remove this, edit the “Link Manager Enabled” field from 1 (on) to 0 (off) in /wp-admin/options.php or through any database manager.

    Or add this code to your functions.php file:

    update_option( ‘link_manager_enabled’, 0 );
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  • Moderator Jose Castaneda

    (@jcastaneda)

    THEME COFFEE MONKEY

    Hi there!

    That is super odd. I’m wondering if you are still seeing that if you use a private or incognito browser? Have you tried adding that option directly to the database?

    Thread Starter mariushosting

    (@marius84)

    @jcastaneda Normal browser..no incognito. I can’t remove it.
    All instructions to remove this is out of date.

    Do you have the links manager plugin installed?

    What is in WP_Links in the database? I wonder if that needs to be cleared if there’s anything there? And I’m wondering if that might get populated somehow via some plugin like an RSS Importer might do.

    But it’s viewable in the dashboard and that should be controlled in the options table or a function somewhere or a plugin bringing in the function.

    If nothing else, disable all your plugins and switch out your theme to a generic theme like Twenty Seventeen temporarily. see if that clears it.

    Do refresh your screen after it loads if it’s still there to make sure it’s not the browser cache ‘remembering’ the old dashboard.

    One more question: are you on Cloudflare? Do you have the Cloudflare plugin running? If so you might turn off the Cloudflare proxy for a bit.

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