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How can I make a menu link visible only to admins (without plugins)?

I use a menu on top of my wordpress which shows 3 links. Main page Custom Page Custom Page Can I add a 4th link to my menu which is visible and accessible to admins only (without plugins)? This ...
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How to display custom post meta in the appearance->menus page

I'm working on a website and added a custom meta option for all pages / posts called: "Location". $value = get_post_meta( $post->ID, '_privacy_location', true ); I'd like to add the value on ...
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Renaming a WordPress Admin Menu

I am trying to change the Admin Menu name for "WooCommerce" to "Store Settings". I tried the other code rename posts to articles, etc. but it did not work for WooCommerce. WooCommerce's Admin Menu ...
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Custom taxonomy position in admin panel

I can't figure out how to change position of custom taxonomy menu item in the admin panel. Right now I have custom post type-- custom_1-- and another custom post type-- custom_2. For custom_2, I've ...
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Hide pages depending on role

I've been trying to find a way to limit the user from seeing some pages in the "pages" menu in the admin panel. I looked in the edit.php file and noticed: } elseif ( 'page' == $post_type ) { ...
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Admin Menu Hack (Left side in Dashboard)

How can I add a Title to my Admin Menu on the left side of the dashboard? Not a link, but just a title? I want do this in my functions and not use a plugin. Also which template file handles this menu? ...
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Lost admin “manage_link” capability WordPress. No “Links” menu item in admin menu

Going slightly mad. In the process of upgrading a client's website to WordPress 3.5.1 we've decided to use the built-in WordPress "Links" system to manage their affiliations. I am using the "Admin ...
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Move admin menu at the end

I installed a plugin for my users in WPMU and I want to make it appear at the end of the admin menu .... I tried this but the menu never appears at the end: function custom_menu_order($menu_ord) { ...
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How can I disable sorting/dragging of a menu item in the custom menu admin?

I think my problem is partially a javascript problem, but if someone knows of a better way to do this I'd love to hear it. Basically the goal is to "save the client from themselves" by not allowing ...
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Add separator to admin submenu

I would like to add a separator to the admin submenu section, NOT in the top level section. I'm thinking of using javascript and styling to do the job, but I was wondering if there's a more ...
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Get admin menu link

Is there any way I can get the menu link for admins? http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/edit_post_link Similarly to the edit_post_link() that returns the edit link for loggedin Admins I ...
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Custom Post Type Nav to Subpage

I've registered a post type for an audio plugin, the post type is "Custom Players" in the admin and has its own tab on the admin sidebar. I'm just curious if there's a simple way to move this out of ...
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Sort wp_nav_menu() by menu order

I have made a custom menu handler for the back end, sorting the via a drag drop based on CMS Page Order. The problem now is that it seems that it's not possible to sort wp_nav_menu in any other way ...
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How do I fix this error: Warning: invalid argument supplied for foreach()?

I recently moved a wordpress install from my local instance to a dev server. For the move, I installed a clean version of wordpress 3.4, moved exact duplicates of the file structre, and used the ...
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Limit the menu child levels under “admin > appearance > menus”

in my effort in making the WP backend as user friendly as possible, I'm looking for a way to limit the amount of child (or submenu items) of the menu(s) under "admin > appearance > menus". They idea ...
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Remove Metabox from Menus screen

Been digging into WP files for a bit and think I just might be missing something. The end-goal is to remove the Theme Locations metabox from the Menus screen if someone doesn't have a certain ...
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Remove the whole menu in the admin

How can i remove the whole menu in the admin? I have this code: function remove_menu_items() { global $menu; end( $menu ); while ( prev($menu) ) { $value = explode( ' ', $menu[ ...
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How can I add a menu item to the admin area?

I've used almost all of the Wordpress example code but it still doesn't work. I've put the php file under wp-content/plugins/menuitem/ .The code is simple <?php add_action('admin_menu', ...
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Why am I timing out when using the Menu Editor?

I'm using a more or less fresh local install of WP 3.3.1. A few days ago I set up a couple menus (Appearance > Menus) without a hitch. Today I tried creating a new menu and add a page to it, but the ...
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How can I remove the “updates” menu in the Wordpress Admin panel?

How can I remove the "updates" menu in the Wordpress Admin panel?
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Hard-coding custom menu elements for menu manager

I realize that one can add custom links through the menu manager but is there a way to manually create such components through the functions.php file? More specifically, one example here relates to a ...
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Adding all sub-pages to the menu manager

Is there some simple way which would allow one to add a page to a menu (through the menu manager interface) and be able to define if the inclusion of this item should automatically add all subpages up ...
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“Automatically add new top-level pages” Default

I'm looking for a way to set the default "Automatically add new top-level pages" to be checked when creating a new menu. I haven't been able to find anything on this - any help you could give me? ...
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Admin top level menu, pointing to an external url

I want to create a entirely new top level menu in the admin menu section, and have that be an external link, is this even possible with the current system? The solution that t31os provides in this ...
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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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Add section (add_settings_section) to a custom page (add_submenu_page)

I have a plugin page created with add_submenu_page. I want to add a new section there but nothing happens: add_submenu_page('parent', 'Foo', 'Foo', 'manage_options', 'foo-settings', ...
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Settings page above CPT page in admin section

I'm creating a plugin which generates a handfull or custom post types (CPT). I've create a top level menu in the admin left sidebar using add_menu_page(). I then added all CPTs to this menu using ...
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Hide Admin menus per role in Wordpress

I am trying to hide a certain amount of menus for a client. Right now I am using the following code and it is doing its job well, but it removes it for everyone as far as I can tell. As in all roles. ...
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Thesis -style Navigation

I am working on a theme where I would like users to be able to select pages to show in the theme options page much like Thesis. I've been Googling / reverse engineering Thesis for a couple hours but ...
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Any official way to create an admin theme?

I was wondering whether there's a common way of customising the aspect of the admin panel. I know you can play with the css and js files but what I was looking for is some kind of "admin theme" like ...
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Renaming Menu Item within Admin Menu Section for a Custom Post Type?

I have a feeling this is a bug. When you create a new custom post type it does not seem possible to modify the first submenu item text. I am referring to the link which allows you to view the post ...
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Changing the Order of Admin Menu Sections?

I am getting a bit frustrated over here after having spent a few hours trying to accomplish this fairly simple task without any luck. Essentially I have 5 custom post types which I created and all I ...
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Adding an Arbitrary Link to the Admin Menu?

Is there a way to add a arbitrary hyperlink to the WordPress admin menu (I mean the menu on the left when you log into the admin dashboard)? For example, can one add a link to Google? In my ...