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The Great WordPress Admin Menu Challenge of Jan 2011 (a.k.a. How to Resolve Some Challenges when Modifying the WordPress Admin Menu System?)
This question is a bit unique.
It is in part a "challenge" I'm issuing to the WordPress team (or anyone else) related to trac tickets: #16048, #16050 and #16204.
The Goal
The goal is to get around ...
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Add a Separator to the Admin Menu?
Does anyone know how to add an admin menu separator? I found this but it did not help.
http://lab.yukei.net/wp-code/nav.html?wp-admin/menu.php.source.html
Any ideas?
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What is the recommended way to create plugin administration forms?
I have seen and been using the following technique for adding php scripts to my plugin for handling custom forms in a wordpress plugin.
from the quizzin plugin:
$code_pages = ...
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Getting custom admin submenu item to highlight when its active
I have a custom post type, Jobs, with 3 taxonomies under it in the Admin menu.
One of the taxonomies is Status, which is either Active or Closed. I want a menu item under Jobs for Active Jobs. I ...
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Highlighting a Menu Item by Post Name
With the help of a couple of users, my last two questions were highlighting a custom menu item through its ID.
Now I'm trying to combine the code of the following two functions to make it work by ...
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Changing Admin Menu Labels
I have spent the last day using the functions.php file to fully customize WordPress for my client sites. I am amazed at how much I have been able to accomplish and how much easier it will make things ...
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How do I enqueue styles/scripts on certain /wp-admin pages?
I have two simple functions that load stuff using wp_enqueue_style() and wp_enqueue_script(), something like these:
function admin_custom_css()
{ wp_enqueue_style( 'stylesheet_name', ...
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Add update notification bubble to admin menu item?
I have re-worded this to make more sense.
Ok, I have a plugin that uses a remote service that check for updates, much like default WordPress plugins, in this case it just checks an XML file.
I want ...
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Order Admin sub-menu items?
I am adding items to a CPT Admin menu using add_submenu_page which works great, but they are added to the bottom of the sub-menu after the CPT options. I want to be able to have them on top , but I ...
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Add highlighting to new Admin Dashboard Menu Item
I have implemented a Custom menu item in my wordpress dashboard using the following command in the functions.php
function create_menu() {
$settings_page = add_menu_page('Edit_Post_69', ...
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Add column to pages table
Hey all i am trying to find the section within the edit.php page where it populates the table with all my current pages. What i want to do is add another colum to the table in order to launch a side ...
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Associating custom submenu item with post type of top level menu item
I'm working on a plugin that sets admin menu submenu pages on all different post types.
I need to be able to associate these new submenu pages with the corresponding post type of the top level menu ...
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Remove menus and submenus
So I found some handy snippets to help remove admin menu items. However, I'm having trouble with the sub menu items. I want to keep the appearance menu, but get rid of the Themes, Widgets, and Editor. ...
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How to prevent parent admin page from appearring as a child admin page
I am using this code:
add_menu_page($page_title, $menu_title, $this->capability, $menu_slug, $function);
Which is adding top level admin page. When I add:
add_submenu_page( $menu_slug, 'sub ...
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Adding Category/Tag/Taxonomy Support to Images/Media
I've been trying to add category, tag, or custom taxonomy support to images (or all media, though I'm only concerned with Images). I've got it part-way figured out with:
add_action('init', ...
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Plugin to remove Admin menu items based on user role?
I searched high and low for a plugin that can remove/hide Admin menu items , including custom post types and taxonomies, based on user role.
Every one I have tried only does a global hide, not based ...
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Passing arguments to a admin menu page callback?
Situation: I'm working on a plugin and I'm developing it as a class, everything worked fine until I run into this situation. I wanted to make things a bit cleaner and tried this..
class MyPlugin {
...
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How to remove the Plugins Editor from the admin menu
I have the code to remove the editor from the Appearance menu. But I can't find anyway to remove the editor from the Plugins.
// Remove Editor from Apperance Menu
function remove_editor_menu() {
...
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How to add admin bar and admin menu or submenu notification bubbles?
What would you recommend to use as far as manipulating the admin bar goes? I was thinking to just add a new admin bar node, and with CSS set a background image for the icon. Then in the node, just ...
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How to remove entire admin menu?
I need to customize the admin panel for my user. So how do I remove the entire admin menu? Not remove the menu item, I mean entirely remove the left vertical menu bar, include the design of the menu ...
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How do I remove the entire Media section from the main WordPress navigation without just hiding it?
I would like to remove the entire "Media" section from the main WordPress admin navigation ont he left hand side. What I don't want to do is just "hide" it with CSS or a plugin/function like I have ...
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Two Navigation Menus in Themes Produce the same menus?
Alright so I've got two navigation menus that I've registered with my theme:
<?php
if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
register_sidebar();
add_theme_support( 'menus' );
if ( ...
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Overwriting Core Wordpress Functions with Plugins
Is there a way to overwrite a core function is the Wordpress core using a plugin? I don't need to inject code, I need to replace the function entirely with a re-written version.
The specific function ...
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Add Admin Menu Inside Construct or Init
I thought I was making headway in my WordPress Development education until I ran across the Boilerplate for WordPress plugins and it uses a class object. I'm fine with that and understand those ...
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How to make a WP admin button/menu similar to Jetpack Notifications?
I would like to add a button to the WP admin toolbar, similar to the Notifications feature released in Jetpack 1.9.1 (I think it was). The notifications icon is displayed beside the account button, to ...
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How Can I remove or hide the export page in WordPress menu?
I'm trying to remove the export.php page from WordPress admin menu -> tools
for a multisite so only the network admin could see it
I have the following code so far but can't get it to work.
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Master menu item for multiple plugins?
I guess this question is more or less about aesthetics and organization rather than functionality, but I'm curious nonetheless...
I know I can add a custom menu item in the dashboard for my plugin ...
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Reference external file as a function
In my functions.php I have the following code:
add_action( 'admin_menu', 'jp_create_admin_pages' );
function jp_create_admin_pages()
{
add_menu_page(
'Members',
'Members',
...
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Re-ordering Admin Submenu Sections
I was looking at the method below to reorder the Admin Menu Sections:
http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/1220/1044
...and was wondering if it's possible to reorder the submenu sections using ...
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Current class on admin menu using add_submenu_page()
I am working on creating an administration menu within WordPress for a plugin. I have successfully registered the menu using add_menu_page() and it shows in the sidebar as expected. I have also added ...
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Menu Error in Admin Console with Custom Plugin: You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page
(Moderator's note: Original title was "Getting error: You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page. Trying to build custom plugin")
I'm trying to write my own custom WordPress plugin, ...
