wp-admin

Unit testing in the WordPress backend (is_admin() is true)

According to this test, you use set_current_screen() to navigate to one of these in the setUp method. Alas, none of this is apparent if you look at the tremendously-helpful reference page for get_current_screen()… Example: <?php class AxisSetupTest extends WP_UnitTestCase { /** * @covers AxisWP::__construct */ function test_constructor() { // Assert // Admin $this->assertInternalType(‘integer’, has_action( ‘admin_enqueue_scripts’, … Read more

How to Add a Third Level Sub Menu to the WordPress Admin Menu

No, it is not possible to create third level menu in admin panel. If you look at the definition of add_submenu_page, you need to mention the parent slug name. For eg: add_menu_page ( ‘Test Menu’, ‘Test Menu’, ‘read’, ‘testmainmenu’, ”, ” ); add_submenu_page ( ‘testmainmenu’, ‘Test Menu’, ‘Child1’, ‘read’, ‘child1’, ”); The first parameter of … Read more

How do I improve this admin query snippet to avoid generating duplicate results on non-meta searches?

A GROUP BY statement can group your posts after the JOIN. For WordPress you can use the posts_groupby filter. add_filter( ‘posts_groupby’, ‘my_post_limits’ ); function my_post_limits($groupby) { global $pagenow, $wpdb; if ( is_admin() && $pagenow == ‘edit.php’ && $_GET[‘post_type’]==’listings’ && $_GET[‘s’] != ” ) { $groupby = “$wpdb->posts.ID”; } return $groupby; }

Disable /wp-admin/plugin-install.php

There is a constant you can define in wp-config.php to do this. It will also disable the theme edit, however. <?php // somewhere in wp-config.php define(‘DISALLOW_FILE_MODS’, true); That will remove the plugin and theme file editor (which are a terrible idea anyway) and remove the ability to install plugins and themes from the admin area.

How to filter users on admin users page by custom meta field?

UPDATE 2018-06-28 While the code below mostly works fine, here is a rewrite of the code for WP >=4.6.0 (using PHP 7): function add_course_section_filter( $which ) { // create sprintf templates for <select> and <option>s $st=”<select name=”course_section_%s” style=”float:none;”><option value=””>%s</option>%s</select>”; $ot=”<option value=”%s” %s>Section %s</option>”; // determine which filter button was clicked, if any and set section … Read more

Link to specific Customizer section

As you’ve already discovered, links to the customizer always start with /wp-admin/customize.php. Append ?autofocus[section] =section_name to checkout your section within the customizer. Both parameters (section and section_name) are registered within your customize_register hook: $wp_customize->add_section If you can’t find the hook, check the HTML markup of the customizer for further information. Both parameters are included within … Read more

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