Placing a custom post type menu above the Posts menu using menu_position?

Question

I just figured out the menu_position parameter it seems like you can place the menu of your custom post type almost everywhere. Except above the Posts menu!

How can I accomplish that?

Answer 1

Positions for Core Menu Items

• 2 Dashboard
• 4 Separator
• 5 Posts
• 10 Media
• 15 Links
• 20 Pages
• 25 Comments
• 59 Separator
• 60 Appearance
• 65 Plugins
• 70 Users
• 75 Tools
• 80 Settings
• 99 Separator

Parameter description for "menu position"

$position (integer) (optional) The position in the menu order this menu should appear. By default, if this parameter is omitted, the menu will appear at the bottom of the menu structure. The higher the number, the lower its position in the menu.

WARNING: if two menu items use the same position attribute, one of the items may be overwritten so that only one item displays! Risk of conflict can be reduced by using decimal instead of integer values, e.g. 63.3 instead of 63.

Default: bottom of menu structure

Answer 2

This is a bug in WordPress. Please see this thread in Trac: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/14755

Answer 3

The new JetPack Plugin places its menu link immediately below the Dashboard link. It does so by setting its menu order to 0, by filtering the $menu_order array:

function jetpack_menu_order( $menu_order ) {
        $jp_menu_order = array();

        foreach ( $menu_order as $index => $item ) {
            if ( $item != 'jetpack' )
                $jp_menu_order[] = $item;

            if ( $index == 0 )
                $jp_menu_order[] = 'jetpack';
        }

        return $jp_menu_order;
    }

Out of curiosity, what would happen if you tried 0 as menu_position?

Answer 4

I've used 'menu_postion' => 0, 1,2,3,4.

Doesn't matter really. If you play around with it you can easily figure it out.

Using 'menu_position' => 1 should place it below the Dashboard menu item above the separator thing. 0 Should place it above the Dashboard

Answer 5

On the same link you linked, it reads:

menu_position
(integer) (optional) The position in the menu order the post type should appear.
Default: null - defaults to below Comments
5 - below Posts
10 - below Media
20 - below Pages
60 - below first separator
100 - below second separator

So, if you set menu_position to something like 4, then it should put it above posts.

A position of -1 puts it above the Dashboard link.