Is it possible to remove the "new article" button from all sections in a Joomla website?

Question

A mate and I are doing an internship at university, and the project we are working on is a small Joomla 4.1 website. Our supervisors asked us to override the mechanics of content insertion so that an article submitted by an author needs to be approved by a moderator before being featured for every visitor - as a result, we created our own Content table and a Status table linked to it. Also note that given the small scope of the website, we are also assuming a 1-to-1 correspondence between sections and categories.

The problem is that the Joomla UI lets any authenticated user upload articles and set them visible to all visitors through a "new article" button in any section. Is there a way to remove these buttons or override them with something of our own?

Answer 1

Haven't used the Joomla UI, but in traditional websites, you can use CSS or JS to hide/disable buttons.

For example, the "Ask Question" button in Stackoverflow (class name "aside-cta") can be disabled or hidden as follows:

CSS:

/* Disable the button */
. aside-cta {opacity: 0.1;pointer-events: none;} 

/* OR hide the button */
. aside-cta {display:none }

Or Javascript can be used instead of CSS:

askBtn = document.querySelector('.aside-cta');

// For disabling the button : 
askBtn.style.opacity = 0.1
askBtn.style["pointer-events"]= 'none';

// For hiding the button : 
askBtn.style.display = 'none'