remove "profile" admin-menu from administrative panel - wordpress

Question

I am using WordPress, and I want to remove "profile" menu-option completely
Any one is having idea how can I achieve this?
Thanks

Answer 1

For the sake of completeness, here's how to do it programmatically...
// Run the function on admin_init
add_action('admin_init', 'remove_profile_menu');
// Removal function
function remove_profile_menu() {
global $wp_roles;
// Remove the menu. Syntax is `remove_submenu_page($menu_slug, $submenu_slug)`
remove_submenu_page('users.php', 'profile.php');
/* Remove the capability altogether. Syntax is `remove_cap($role, $capability)`
* 'Read' is the only capability subscriber has by default, and allows access
* to the Dashboard and Profile page. You can also remove from a specific user
* like this:
* $user = new WP_User(null, $username);
* $user->remove_cap($capability);
*/
$wp_roles->remove_cap('subscriber', 'read');
}

Answer 2

I know this is late but I just stumbled on this and thought I would add to it. That does remove the sub-menu profile menu item but does not remove the menu profile item. For someone like me who has created a completely custom profile page, I don't want my users to access the profile.php page at all. So this code will work for that:
function remove_profile_menu() {
remove_submenu_page('users.php', 'profile.php');
remove_menu_page('profile.php');
}
add_action('admin_menu', 'remove_profile_menu');
And if you only want to do this for certain capabilities....use this code:
function remove_profile_menu() {
// Only the Admin can see the profile menu
if(!current_user_can('update_core')) {
remove_submenu_page('users.php', 'profile.php');
remove_menu_page('profile.php');
}
}
add_action('admin_menu', 'remove_profile_menu');
You can use the current_user_can() function to determine who you want to see the menu items.

Answer 3

Profiless plugin does that on the subscriber-level.
If you wish to do that for other groups, you should probably use it in combination with Capability manager plugin.