Placing a Custom Post Type Menu Above the Posts Menu Using menu_position?

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 … Read more

How to restrict dashboard access to Admins only?

We can hook to the admin_init action and check if the user is an administrator by using the current_user_can() function to see if the current user can manage_options, which is something only an administrator can do. This code, when pasted into your functions.php file, will display a message when a non-admin tries to access the … Read more

Modal window from within WordPress admin

Give the anchor a class of thickbox and make sure that the thickbox script is enqueued on your admin page using add_thickbox add_thickbox(); and <a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/48514/your url” class=”thickbox”>click here</a> You can see what add_thickbox does here: http://hitchhackerguide.com/2011/02/11/add_thickbox/

“Too many redirects” ONLY when trying to access wp-admin page

I found a solution that fixed my issue. Sources: A.) https://sharpten.com/blog/2018/01/17/wordpress-stuck-many-redirects-error-loop-using-ssl.html B.) (Sublink within A) https://wordpress.org/support/article/administration-over-ssl/ Excerpt: Adding the following lines of code at the end of my wp-config.php file resolved the redirect conflict. if (strpos($_SERVER[‘HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO’], ‘https’) !== false) $_SERVER[‘HTTPS’]=’on’;

Change the text on the Publish button

If you look into /wp-admin/edit-form-advanced.php, you will find the meta box: add_meta_box(‘submitdiv’, __(‘Publish’), ‘post_submit_meta_box’, $post_type, ‘side’, ‘core’); Note the __(‘Publish’) – the function __() leads to translate() where you get the filter ‘gettext’. There are two ways to handle your problem: 1. Address the string in a single specialized function (be sure to match the … Read more

How to add an admin notice upon post save/update

The reason this doesn’t work is because there is a redirection happening after the save_post action. One way you can acheive want you want is by implementing a quick work around using query vars. Here is a sample class to demonstrate: class My_Awesome_Plugin { public function __construct(){ add_action( ‘save_post’, array( $this, ‘save_post’ ) ); add_action( … Read more

How to use “menu_order” field for posts?

Apparently it’s as easy as: add_action( ‘admin_init’, ‘posts_order_wpse_91866’ ); function posts_order_wpse_91866() { add_post_type_support( ‘post’, ‘page-attributes’ ); } And then doing the query: $order_posts = new WP_Query(array( ‘post_type’ => ‘post’, ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’, ‘orderby’ => ‘menu_order’, ‘order’ => ‘ASC’, ) );