So this was pretty easy. If anyone is interested, here is a simple step by step method I used to do this:
1. Go to your admin page, open up your web inspector and look at the html for the “Add New” menu. It is displayed as a list with the following structure:
<ul id="wp-admin-bar-new-content-default" class="ab-submenu">
<li id="wp-admin-bar-MENU NAME>
<a class="ab-item" href="LINK"> TITLE </a>
</li>
<li id="wp-admin-bar-MENU NAME>
<a class="ab-item" href="LINK"> TITLE </a>
</li>
etc...
2. Create a function that removes each individual link by using $wp_admin_bar->remove_menu(). Whatever the value of MENU NAME is in the above code, that is the value you put as the parameter. Here is what mine looks like:
// Remove default "Add New" menu
function tru_remove_default_new_content_menu() {
global $wp_admin_bar;
$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('new-post');
$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('new-posts'); // I needed this CPT because of the way I wanted to organize taxonomies
$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('new-page');
$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('new-media');
$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('new-books');
$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('new-teachings');
$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('new-our-media');
$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('new-user');
$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('new-tru_main-info');
$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('new-tru_home');
}
3. Hook your function like so:
add_action( 'wp_before_admin_bar_render', 'tru_remove_default_new_content_menu' );
4. Manually add new links by inserting them as children of the new-content menu. The order you add them is the order in which they will appear:
// Add custom "Add New" menu
function tru_new_content_menu() {
global $wp_admin_bar;
$wp_admin_bar->add_menu( array(
'parent' => 'new-content',
'id' => 'MENU NAME',
'title' => 'TITLE',
'href' => admin_url( 'LINK' ),
)
);
global $wp_admin_bar;
$wp_admin_bar->add_menu( array(
'parent' => 'new-content',
'id' => 'MENU NAME2',
'title' => 'TITLE2',
'href' => admin_url( 'LINK2' ),
)
);
}
etc...
5. Hook your function the same way you did in step 3.
This was my final code:
// Remove default "Add New" menu
function tru_remove_default_new_content_menu() {
global $wp_admin_bar;
$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('new-post');
$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('new-posts'); // I needed this CPT because of the way I wanted to organize taxonomies
$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('new-page');
$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('new-media');
$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('new-books');
$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('new-teachings');
$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('new-our-media');
$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('new-user');
$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('new-tru_main-info');
$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('new-tru_home');
}
add_action( 'wp_before_admin_bar_render', 'tru_remove_default_new_content_menu' );
// Add custom "Add New" menu
function tru_new_content_menu() {
global $wp_admin_bar;
$wp_admin_bar->add_menu( array(
'parent' => 'new-content',
'id' => 'new_teaching',
'title' => 'Teaching',
'href' => admin_url( 'post-new.php?post_type=teachings' ),
)
);
$wp_admin_bar->add_menu( array(
'parent' => 'new-content',
'id' => 'new_post',
'title' => 'Post',
'href' => admin_url( 'post-new.php?post_type=posts' ),
)
);
$wp_admin_bar->add_menu( array(
'parent' => 'new-content',
'id' => 'new_media_post',
'title' => 'Media Post',
'href' => admin_url( 'post-new.php?post_type=our-media' ),
)
);
$wp_admin_bar->add_menu( array(
'parent' => 'new-content',
'id' => 'new_book',
'title' => 'Book',
'href' => admin_url( 'post-new.php?post_type=books' ),
)
);
}
add_action( 'wp_before_admin_bar_render', 'tru_new_content_menu' );
Thanks again bc…
