The theme dashboard provides the "Activate License" tab inside your wp-admin to easily activate/deactivate your license key for a particular site.

In some cases, however, you may not want this tab to be visible.
For example, if you are a developer or designer building a site for a client, you might prefer to hide this option before handing over the project. This prevents clients from accidentally changing important settings like license activation, ensuring the site remains stable and consistent.

To address this, the theme includes a Hide Tabs feature. With it you can selectively hide specific dashboard tabs from view while keeping everything else fully functional. This gives you more control, simplifies the dashboard for your clients, and reduces the chance of accidental changes.

If you are not using features like Demo Import , Tools and Custom Code , they can be completely tuned OFF in your HootKit Options > Miscellaneous. This will remove their respective tabs from the dashboard.

How it works

You hide or unhide a tab by adding a short query parameter to the dashboard URL.
Replace mywebsite.com with your actual site domain and visit the modified URL in your browser.

Base dashboard URL

This is the standard url where you can access your Theme's Dashboard

https://mywebsite.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=hoot-dashboard

https://mywebsite.com/wp-admin/themes.php?page=hoot-dashboard

Hide a tab

1. Open the base dashboard URL in your browser.
2. Append the appropriate hide... parameter to the URL and press Enter.

Examples:

• To Hide Activate License tab, visit this link in your browser:
  Replace mywebsite.com with your actual site domain

https://mywebsite.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=hoot-dashboard&hidelicense

Un-Hide a tab

To unhide a tab, visit the same URL but set the argument to false.

Examples:

• To Unhide Activate License tab, visit this link in your browser:
  Replace mywebsite.com with your actual site domain

https://mywebsite.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=hoot-dashboard&hidelicense=false