Requirement
Some times you might want to hide the site settings drop down menu, especially if it is a publishing site and you want to hide the menu from your readers.
Solution
Modify your site’s master page and add the bold lines:
Css Class =”ms-siteactionscontainer s4-notdlg”>
<Sharepoint:SPSecurityTrimmedControl runat=”server” Permissions=”AddListItems”>..
..
..
</SharePoint:SiteActions></span>
</SharePoint:SPSecurityTrimmedControl>
<asp:ContentPlaceHolder id=”PlaceHolderGlobalNavigation runat=”server”>
Testing
This will hide the Site Settings menu from all users who do not have ‘Manage Web’ permissions to your site, a.k.a administrators.
Here is a list of permissions you can use.
ManagePermissions
ViewUsageData
ManageSubwebs
ManageWeb
AddAndCustomizePages
ApplyThemeAndBorder
ApplyStyleSheets
CreateGroups
BrowseDirectories
CreateSSCSite
ViewPages
EnumeratePermissions
BrowseUserInfo
ManageAlerts
UseRemoteAPIs
UseClientIntegration
Open
EditMyUserInfo
Applies to
SharePoint 2010
