# How to hide plugin in sidebar menu plugin list in 7.8 kibana OSS version

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-hide-plugin-in-sidebar-menu-plugin-list-in-7-8-kibana-oss-version/247426>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [September 3, 2020, 5:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-hide-plugin-in-sidebar-menu-plugin-list-in-7-8-kibana-oss-version/247426 "2020-09-03T17:26:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jayanth\_Mogadampalli](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jayanth_mogadampalli/32/74602_2.png) [@Jayanth\_Mogadampalli](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jayanth_Mogadampalli)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 5:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-hide-plugin-in-sidebar-menu-plugin-list-in-7-8-kibana-oss-version/247426/1 "2020-09-03T17:26:08Z")

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Need to hide plugin in sidebar but still plugin should be enabled  
I tried doing **my\_plugin.enabled : false** in kibana.yml file  
but it is disabling my plugin completely from working it in background  
So, Please tell how to hide plugin but plugin still need to work !!

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**Author:** ![lukeelmers](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukeelmers/32/35230_2.png) [@lukeelmers](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukeelmers)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 8:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-hide-plugin-in-sidebar-menu-plugin-list-in-7-8-kibana-oss-version/247426/2 "2020-09-03T20:57:35Z")

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If you are developing a plugin that registers an application, you need to set the `navLinkStatus` value to `AppNavLinkStatus.hidden`:

```auto
    core.application.register({
      id: 'example',
      title: 'MyApp',
      navLinkStatus: AppNavLinkStatus.hidden, // imported from `src/core/public`
      async mount(params: AppMountParameters) {
        const { renderApp } = await import('./my_app');
        return renderApp(params.element);
      },
    });

```

You can find more examples of plugins in the `examples` directory of the repo.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2020, 8:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-hide-plugin-in-sidebar-menu-plugin-list-in-7-8-kibana-oss-version/247426/3 "2020-10-01T20:57:47Z")

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