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Custom admin menu order fails if slugs are complicated
I'm not able to reorder WP Admin menu items when pages added with add_menu_page have complicated slugs. At least I think that's the problem...
First I create the custom menu items, which is working as ...
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add sub_menu to a sub_menu (multiLevel sub_menu) in admin menu in wordpress
I'm looking to add a submenu, to another sub_menu that already exists.
In WordPress, there are just 2 levels of admin menu (with functions: add_menu_page and add_submenu_page), my goal is to add ...
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Wordpress add page under admin submenu and retaining the active status of the parent submenu page in the menu
I have added a page in the admin menu(pxmag-menu) and a submenu(pxmag-plans). There is another page(pxmag-plans-edit) set under the submenu(pxmag-plans) as the parent page.
public function __construct(...
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Set different custom menu items for different user roles
I have added some custom menu using add-menu_page and it is working perfectly with the default administrator admin bar. But when I log in to different user roles, they are not showing. My question is ...
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Highlight active Admin Menu when added though add_menu_page
I added a direct link to a page in the admin menu with the add_menu_page function.
Once I click on the link, the About page edit screen opens, great.
The problem though, i want the About menu item i ...
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Able to edit custom post, but unable to create new custom post when within submenu. What capability is missing?
I'm encountering funny behaviour with a custom post of mine that I'm working with in a plugin of mine. Here are the arguments of the custom post:
array(
'label' => [omitted],
'labels' =>...
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Create Wordpress Menu Item Without Linking to a Custom Page
With add_menu_page there is a required option to add a menu slug that leads to a admin page. I wish to create a custom admin item, but not one that links to another page (I have other plans for the ...
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add_menu_page() with function inside a class [duplicate]
I'm an experienced dev, but new to WordPress. I'm following along with a course on udemy and they suggested I encapsulate my plugin functions in a class to help avoid namespace conflicts. However, ...
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meta box on new admin page
I created a new page for the homepage settings of my theme using add_pages_page(). On that page I want to use wp.media to let the user select one or several images from the library (or upload new ones)...
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add menu page in loop menu order
I have a function that creates custom admin menu items from an array of child pages.
They seem to get returned in alpha-numeric order.
I would like them to get sorted by the page order set in page ...
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How to change menu page capability
Is it possible to change the capability set for a menu page, previously added with add_menu_page()?
I have a third plugin installed, that set a menu page created with a 'manage_options' capability, ...
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Hiding Admin Page While Keeping Menu Expanded
I am creating a custom admin section. I have the following code:
// Top level menu
add_menu_page('Books', 'Books', 'publish_posts', 'books', 'render_books_page', '', 17);
// Adding this function to ...
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Add menu option to "New Post" menu in admin bar
I'm trying to figure out how to add an item to the new menu bar. To be clear, I know how to add items to the menu bar. I want to add something new under the bug plus sign in the admin bar. Here's a ...
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how to create pages and link them to a menu
I am having some issues linking pages to the menus I have created. I used "appearance"-> "Customize"-> "Menu" and created custom menus from there since I cannot access my "Appearance/menu" properly.
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Insert & order custom post types in/as submenu
TLDR: While in the backend, I would like to add custom post type inside a menu page (which I can do). But I cannot order the resulting submenu pages.
I have 3 custom post types “A”, “B”, “C”, and I ...
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Wp menu add page link as custom empty link
i've a problem with wp menu, in the admin panel when i try to add a new page link to menu it creates a custom empty link instead, everything was working fine until i installed qtransalte X, when i ...
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Why add_menu_page adds admin.php and how to remove it?
I'm trying to add custom menu items for my Custom Post Type.
I've added "show_in_menu" => false in my CPT definition so it will not show in admin menu.
Then I've added to admin_menu action:
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Pagination in plugin's backend
I am displaying a list of posts in the plugin backend but I can't seem to get the pagination to work. I used the standard approach of getting the "paged" variable and then passing it to get_posts()'s ...
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Adding an admin page - OOP approach not working
I have a parent class, which contains the following:
use app\My_Dashboard;
class My_Class {
public function __construct() {
add_action('admin_menu', array($this, 'setup_dashboard_page'));...
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Dynamic admin submenu
I'm creating a plugin for WordPress with dynamic sub-menu's fetched from the server. Putting the dynamic loading of sub-menu's into the menu_setup() hook function would slow down other WordPress ...
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Is it possible to have dynamic post id # in add_menu_page()?
I use the add_menu_page function in my custom theme builds but when I export my local copy of the site and import it in the production site some of post id numbers change and I have to update this ...
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Add a page in admin without adding menu item
In my plugin I have registered a menu_page; now I need another page.
How can I add another page to my plugin without adding another menu item?
Is it possible to call it by href?
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Is there any way to add absolute path for add_menu_page function?
I am creating a plugin for add menu option to WordPress admin and using below function for that:
<?php add_menu_page( $page_title, $menu_title, $capability, $menu_slug, $function, $icon_url, $...
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Show Custom Taxonomy Inside Custom Menu
I have a custom menu using add_menu_page:
add_menu_page('My menu' , 'Some text', 'read', 'nwcm');
Under it, I show a custom post type menu item;
// Create the news custom post type
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Add_menu_page() error message -> "You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page"
I'm currently building a website for a friend and have assigned him the user role of editor. I don't want to give him an administrator role in case he breaks the layout. Anyway, I am using '...
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Admin Menus - Name Menu different from first Submenu [duplicate]
I am creating a submenu with the following code:
add_action( 'admin_menu', 'jp_create_admin_pages' );
function jp_create_admin_pages()
{
add_menu_page(
'Members',
'Members',
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Generate Advanced Custom Fields box in custom admin menu page
I have created an custom admin menu page called FCC Youtube with add_menu_page function
which has some custom fields I manually generated via HTML and PHP:
code ( just the part how I created this ...
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How to add admin bar only page?
I successfully managed to create admin bar item using this:
add_action('admin_bar_menu', 'toolbar_link_to_mypage', 999);
function toolbar_link_to_mypage($wp_admin_bar){
global $wp_admin_bar;
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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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How can I add/update post meta in a admin menu page?
I wanted to create a plugin to batch manage posts' custom field data. I know I can add post meta by add a meta box in post edit screen and use add_action('save_post','function_to_update_meta') to ...
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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() {
$settings_page = add_menu_page('Edit_Post_69', '...
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difference between add_object_page and add_menu_page
According to Codex, the add_object_page "essentially does the exact same thing as add_menu_page() in case you're wondering".
So.... what is the difference between those two functions?
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How to prevent parent admin page from appearring as a child admin page
I am using this code:
add_menu_page($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 menu ...
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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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