Php – Modifying default theme column_right menu in OpenCart 3.0.4

OpenCart provides more default features than I wish to offer my users. My current challenge is how to remove menu entries such as "Recurring payments" and "Downloads" from the default menu that is populated by the column_right.twig template file.

The code in view/theme/default/template/common/column_right.twig is:

{% if modules %}
<aside id="column-right" class="col-sm-3 hidden-xs">
  {% for module in modules %}
  {{ module }}
  {% endfor %}
</aside>
{% endif %}

I presume that the menu entries are populated by iterating over the collection called modules, but I have not been able to find where the modules collection is initialised.

I can’t find a way to control initialisation from the admin portal. And I’ve not worked out how to control initialisation by modifying the underlying code.

Any help would be appreciated.