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November 23, 2008

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New Plugin Icon in WordPress 2.7

by Benjamin Sterling in Tips, Wordpress on November 23, 2008 @ 12:00 pm

If you are a WordPress plugin Developer then you most likely have used the "add_menu_page" function before.  With WordPress 2.7 you can now add an icon to your plugin to be shown in the new side menu in the admin area.

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  1. add_menu_page( $page_title, $menu_title, $access_level, $file, $function = '', $icon_url = '' )

So in PhotoXhibit's case, I did the following:

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  1. add_menu_page('PhotoXhibit','PhotoXhibit', 7, $bp, array(&$this, 'showLandingPage'), $this->imgBaseUrl.'lphoto.png');

And I get:

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3 Responses to “New Plugin Icon in WordPress 2.7”

Could you give a plainer example please? I don't know what is returned by "$this->imgBaseUrl.'lphoto.png'" Are we supposed to put the full URL there?

Also, does this just work for top-level menu items or for submenus too?

December 3rd, 2008 at 12:12 am | Link

Stephen, sure:

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  1. add_menu_page('Page Title', 'Menu Title', Access Level, File , function, 'full/path/to/icon');

Take a look at the following like for decent explaination of what the first five variables are about: http://codex.wordpress.org/Add.....Level_menu

For the last one, 'full/path/to/icon', that is simply the full path to where your icon will reside. In my example the $this->imgBaseUrl.'lphoto.png' echos out to something like: http://website.com/wp-content/.....lphoto.png.

To answer your second question, no, icons are only top level and only in WordPress 2.7 which will be release this Thursday.

December 3rd, 2008 at 12:24 am | Link

Thank you for this information. :)

December 11th, 2008 at 9:07 am | Link

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