Title: Admin Menu
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Admin Menu

 *  [zephyrsky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zephyrsky/)
 * (@zephyrsky)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-menu/)
 * I know I’m probubly beating a dead horse here but is it possible to dynamicly
   add a Menu item to the top Admin Menu?
 * [Admin Menu Example](http://www.jimpringle.com/images/admin_menu.jpg)
 * I hardcoded the ‘Galleries’ link on the menu. But I’d like for it to appear when
   I ‘Activate’ the plugin and dissappear when the plugin is ‘Disactivated’.
 * Can this be done with 1.2? If so, how? If not, can it be done with 1.5? If so,
   how?
 * Thanks.

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-menu/#post-136297)
 * Spaminator and Spamkarma do this in 1.5 . check their code ?
 *  [iand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iand/)
 * (@iand)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-menu/#post-136304)
 * This is a copy of a plugin that adds backup/restore to options in 1.5. I can’t
   get in to work with 1.2.2 though:
    `<?php /* Plugin Name: Backup/Restore Plugin
   URI:  Description: Enables Backup/Restore from the Admin menu Version: 1.0 Author:
   Author URI:  */ $menu[46] = array('Backup/Restore', 10, 'backupRestore.php');?
   >
 *  [iddapidda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iddapidda/)
 * (@iddapidda)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-menu/#post-136328)
 * This is also done in the Dashboard for 1.2.x, i.e. the Dashboard option is added
   to the admin menu.
    see here: [http://dan.hersam.com/archives/2004/12/13/wordpress-12x-dashboard](http://dan.hersam.com/archives/2004/12/13/wordpress-12x-dashboard)
 * I think you “only” need to edit wp-admin/menu.php and add the file needed. See
   Dashboard’s code for information. 🙂
 *  [Joshua Sigar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alphaoide/)
 * (@alphaoide)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-menu/#post-136331)
 * The following is a better way
    [http://wordpress.org/pipermail/hackers/2004-November/003034.html](http://wordpress.org/pipermail/hackers/2004-November/003034.html)
 *  Thread Starter [zephyrsky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zephyrsky/)
 * (@zephyrsky)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-menu/#post-136376)
 * Looks like this functionality is not in 1.2. The functions alphaoide linked to
   aren’t available in 1.2 so they probubly only work in 1.5.
 * And it appears that doing:
 * $menu[46] = array(‘Backup/Restore’, 10, ‘backupRestore.php’)
 * doesn’t work either. So as a cheap hack I put this in menu.php under where the
   $menu array is created:
 * // Add gallery to the Admin Menu
    include(‘../wp-content/plugins/galleries/galleries_functions.
   php’); $add_menu = new galleries(); $menu = $add_menu->gallery_add_menu($menu);
 * The gallery_functions.php file will check to see if the plugin is loaded and 
   if so it will insert the ‘Galleries’ Item in the admin menu. Below is galleries_functions.
   php in case anyone is interested:
 * <?php
 * class galleries
    {
 *  //
    // This check to see if Galleries is installed. If so it will add it to 
   the menu // function gallery_add_menu($menu) { $newset_menu = $menu; $installed
   = galleries::check_installed(); $array_counter = 0; if ($installed) { foreach(
   $menu as $menu2) { if ($array_counter == 2) { $menu3[$array_counter] = array(‘
   Galleries’, 3, ‘galleries.php’, ‘Galleries’); ++$array_counter; $menu3[$array_counter]
   = $menu2; } else { $menu3[$array_counter] = $menu2; } ++$array_counter; } return
   $menu3; } else { // not installed return $menu; } }
 *  //
    // Adapted from wp-plugin-list.php from Matt Read // function check_installed(){
 *  $installed = false;
 *  // Files in wp-content/plugins directory
    $plugins_dir = @ dir(ABSPATH . ‘wp-
   content/plugins’); if ($plugins_dir) { while(($file = $plugins_dir->read()) !
   == false) { if ( !preg_match(‘|^\.+$|’, $file) && preg_match(‘|\.php$|’, $file))
   $plugin_files[] = $file; } }
 *  if (” != trim(get_settings(‘active_plugins’))) {
    $current_plugins = explode(“\
   n”, (get_settings(‘active_plugins’))); }
 *  if (!$plugins_dir || !$plugin_files) {
    _e(“Error”); // TODO: make more helpful
   break; } else {
 *  sort($plugin_files); // Alphabetize by filename. Better way?
    $style = ”; foreach(
   $plugin_files as $plugin_file) { $plugin_data = implode(”, file(ABSPATH . ‘/wp-
   content/plugins/’ . $plugin_file)); preg_match(“|Plugin Name:(.*)|i”, $plugin_data,
   $plugin_name); preg_match(“|Plugin URI:(.*)|i”, $plugin_data, $plugin_uri); preg_match(“
   |Description:(.*)|i”, $plugin_data, $description); preg_match(“|Author:(.*)|i”,
   $plugin_data, $author_name); preg_match(“|Author URI:(.*)|i”, $plugin_data, $
   author_uri); if ( preg_match(“|Version:(.*)|i”, $plugin_data, $version) ) { $
   version = $version[1]; } else { $version =”; }
 *  $description = wptexturize($description[1]);
 *  if (!empty($current_plugins) && in_array($plugin_file, $current_plugins)) {
   //
   If Galleries is found return true if (trim($plugin_name[1]) == ‘Galleries’) {
   $installed = true; return $installed; } }
 *  }
    // echo $plugs; return $installed; } } } ?>

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 * Last reply from: [zephyrsky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zephyrsky/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-menu/#post-136376)
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