Title:  Remove Akismet from admin menu when not active
Author: WordPress VIP Documentation
Published: May 4, 2021
Last modified: August 5, 2025

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#  Remove Akismet from admin menu when not active

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 04 May 2021

15:31:20 GMT+0000

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Preventing the navigation to the Akismet page if it is not installed.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2092](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2092)