Title: Admin Interface and Post Types Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Admin Interface and Post Types * [minkowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/minkowski/) * (@minkowski) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-interface-and-post-types/) * Hi, * I’ve been playing with the new post types in 3.0b1 and they’re truly great, really easy to set up and are going to make my life a lot easier. But I need help in trying to manipulate the admin interface. * If I set up two new post types I’ll get this in the admin menu … - Post Type One * - Add New - Edit * - Post Type Two * - Add New - Edit * Which is all very well and good, but I need a little more control to produce something like… - My Post Types * - Add New Post Type One - Edit Post Type One - Add New Post Type Two - Edit Post Type Two * But I can’t seem to find any documentation on how to do this. * Also, if I turn the ‘show_ui’ in register_post_type to false so that I can use the post type without the admin menu I lose the Publish box from the Add New/ Edit Post Type page. * Any help would be greatly appreciated. * Thanks! Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 16 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-interface-and-post-types/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-interface-and-post-types/page/2/?output_format=md) * [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/) * (@michaelh) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-interface-and-post-types/#post-1474996) * Moving this to Alpha/Beta forum for now. * Thread Starter [minkowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/minkowski/) * (@minkowski) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-interface-and-post-types/#post-1475203) * Giving this a little bump as I remember something. * I vaguely remember some documentation or an example of adding post types to WordPress earlier than 3.0 but I have had no luck finding it again. * I don’t remember the details of the code but it may help me solve thins problem. Does anyone know where that may have been? * [ronbme](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ronbme/) * (@ronbme) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-interface-and-post-types/#post-1475238) * Are you thinking of something like the Custom Post Type UI plugin? * Thread Starter [minkowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/minkowski/) * (@minkowski) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-interface-and-post-types/#post-1475246) * No, I can build the post types manually, it’s just a matter of organising the admin interface the way I’d like it. I may download the Custom Post Type UI plugin and dissect it but I really need to get my head around creating an admin interface. * Thread Starter [minkowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/minkowski/) * (@minkowski) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-interface-and-post-types/#post-1475247) * If I use the register_post_types function a new top level menu item is built for me automatically. This appears at the bottom of the top part of the menu beneath Comments by default. * If I try to make a new top level item in the top section of the menu manually, all I seem to be able to do is create a subpage to an existing type. * add_posts_page adds a new page beneath Posts, add_pages_page add a new page beneath Pages, etc. * The problem is that I want to place a new top level menu item within this top part of the menu manually so I can build in all of the subpages manually. * The problem I’m having is simply cosmetic to the admin interface as I just want to reorder things, I just don’t know how. * [Anointed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anointed/) * (@anointed) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-interface-and-post-types/#post-1475268) * +1 searching for same answer to above questions. * Probably has to do with $menu global mods, but beyond that I am no help yet. * [ragulka](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ragulka/) * (@ragulka) * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-interface-and-post-types/#post-1475288) * I would also find this very useful. Another thing I’d like to see is to be able to group my custom post types together, to seprate them from the WordPress built- in content types block. What I mean, is in the admin menu, after Comments, there is a separator, and after that comes Appereance etc… I’d like to be able to create a separator like that. * Thread Starter [minkowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/minkowski/) * (@minkowski) * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-interface-and-post-types/#post-1475334) * I’ve just encountered this issue again. I just ignored it last time and had a stack of different post types in the admin menu, but if I can get it sorted this time I’ll be a lot happier with the result. * So, anyone know? * Thread Starter [minkowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/minkowski/) * (@minkowski) * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-interface-and-post-types/#post-1475335) * In fact, I want it to look more like this. - Taxonomy Name (link to wherever I like) * - View/Edit Post Type A - Add Post Type A - View/Edit Post Type B - Add Post Type B - View/Edit Taxonomy * [nelsonkoehn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nelsonkoehn/) * (@nelsonkoehn) * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-interface-and-post-types/#post-1475336) * Been looking around for something down this line myself. I see where you can add a sub menu under your custom post type but I want my custom post type under my own main menu page. * Found [this](http://codex.wordpress.org/Adding_Administration_Menus) in the codex. * > Here’s an example of adding an option page under a custom post type menu block: > ` wiki-options', array(&$this, 'options_page') ); ?>` * but that goes the opposite way I need it. * Thread Starter [minkowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/minkowski/) * (@minkowski) * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-interface-and-post-types/#post-1475337) * I’ve written menus like that in the past, and it’s very useful, but I don’t think I can apply this technique to altering menus that were already created. I did try Adding one like this and then setting the show_ui parameter to false in the register_post_type function but that just removes everything and I can’t access the page even via a direct link. * What I did find was a plugin called Admin Menu Editor that will do everything I need, but it’s still something that I would prefer to code in myself. I reckon I’m going to have to take the code apart in that plugin and see how they did it there. * Thanks for looking though! * [nelsonkoehn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nelsonkoehn/) * (@nelsonkoehn) * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-interface-and-post-types/#post-1475338) * Read thru the [Adding_Administration_Menus](http://codex.wordpress.org/Adding_Administration_Menus) again and paid attention to this * > **function** > The function that displays the page content for the menu page. > Technically, as in the add_menu_page function, the function parameter is optional, > but if it is not supplied, then WordPress will basically assume that including > the PHP file will generate the administration screen, without calling a function. > Most plugin authors choose to put the page-generating code in a function within > their main plugin file. * Played around a little and got this to work * ``` add_object_page('My Shop', 'My Shop', 'manage_options', 'my-shop-order-log', '', MS_PLUGIN_URL . '/images/ms_icon.png'); add_submenu_page('my-shop-order-log', 'Products', 'Products', 'manage_options', 'edit.php?post_type=ms_product'); add_submenu_page('my-shop-order-log', 'Add New Products', 'Add New Products', 'manage_options', 'post-new.php?post_type=ms_product'); add_submenu_page('my-shop-order-log', 'Categories', 'Categories', 'manage_options', 'edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category&post_type=ms_product'); add_submenu_page('my-shop-order-log', 'Settings', 'Settings', 'manage_options', 'my-shop-settings', 'my_shop_setting'); ``` * Now if I can just turn of the post ui without shutting this down it will work fine * Minkowski, have you tried something down this line? * [Pete Mall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petemall/) * (@petemall) * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-interface-and-post-types/#post-1475339) * Use `add_menu_page` to add the top level menu. Use this as an arg for `register_post_type()`: ` show_in_menu => $parent` where $parent is the top level menu. * [nelsonkoehn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nelsonkoehn/) * (@nelsonkoehn) * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-interface-and-post-types/#post-1475340) * Can’t seem to wrap my self around this one * ``` function ms_create_post_type() { register_post_type('ms_product', array( .... 'show_ui' => true, 'show_in_menu' => false, .... )); } ``` * should take `ms-product` out of a menu, right? And * ``` add_action('admin_menu', 'ms_create_admin_menu'); function ms_create_admin_menu() { add_menu_page('My Shop', 'My Shop', 'manage_options', 'my-shop', 'my_shop_order_log', MS_PLUGIN_URL . '/images/ms_icon.png'); } add_action( 'init', 'ms_create_post_type' ); function ms_create_post_type() { register_post_type('ms_product', array( .... 'show_ui' => true, 'show_in_menu' => 'my-shop', .... )); } ``` * should put `ms-product` under my custom menu? Or do I not understand `$parent`? * [Pete Mall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petemall/) * (@petemall) * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-interface-and-post-types/#post-1475341) * Are you using the 3.1 beta? 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