Sounds like you’ve run into a problem we constantly see with the WordPress menu system. Have you tried setting custom menu position to larger numbers? You may even need to use a menu plugin that lets you edit the admin menu to reorder them to avoid core WP menu items from stopping additional menu items to be added.
You also might consider grouping some of your Pods together with a menu parent, like ‘Books’ pod could have the ‘Authors’, ‘Characters’, and other Pods within that menu item.
I like the idea of grouping related pods into a single menu. To do so, I started looking into the Parent Menu ID field in the Admin UI tab of Pods. I just can’t seem to figure out what value goes in there.
I’d like to move three items so that they’re children of another item. Like:
Products
– Basis Weights
– Sizes
– Units
Best I can tell, I’d put pods-manage-product into the Parent Menu ID field of each of the child pods. Which promptly makes them disappear from the top level (yay!) but not appear in the Products that I can see (oh snap!).
Are the Basis Weights, Sizes and Units Custom Taxonomies of Products?
If they are, you can associate them through the Taxonomy fields to the Post Type and that will put them where you expect them.
They’re all custom post types (Pods). Each product has multiple basis weights, each basis weight has multiple sizes and each size has multiple units.
What I ended up doing was using the Admin Menu Editor plugin to move the three child custom post types into the Products menu. I also combined others while I was there, to further reduce the number of custom admin menus by consolidation.
Sounds like a good solution. Here’s hoping at some point that WordPress gives us the ability to manage the admin menu ‘natively’ in WordPress 😉
