The Great WordPress Admin Menu Challenge of Jan 2011 (a.k.a. How to Resolve Some Challenges when Modifying the WordPress Admin Menu System?)

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Mike, I’ve taken a look at the code and your ideal end use case … and some of them, frankly, aren’t possible with the current system. Again, your requirements:

  1. Get the “Microsite” submenu page to be highlighted when editing an Attorney
  2. Get the Attorney Menu Page link to link to /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=attorney when editing an Attorney
  3. Get the “Microsite” link not to trigger a “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page” error

And the key issue here is #2.

What I tried

I tried adding a custom post type for Attorneys and was immediately reminded that /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=attorney will give you a list of attorneys, not an actual edit screen. The actual editing take place on /wp-admin/post.php?post=10&action=edit. So if you’re really tied to #2 … the other two criteria won’t work.

This is why #3 fails in implementation … and I wasn’t even able to attempt #1 because I couldn’t get that far.

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