Title: Change Default "Posts" Admin Icon
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Change Default "Posts" Admin Icon

 *  Resolved [ronaldfarber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ronaldfarber/)
 * (@ronaldfarber)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-default-posts-admin-icon/)
 * I’ve been trying for the life of me to figure out how to change the default “
   thumbtack” icon of the “Posts” menu on the backend to something else. Unfortunately,
   when searching Google for this, all I get is how to do it with Custom Post Types—
   not the default/existing “post” post-type. I know with a Custom Post Type you
   use ‘menu_icon’ in your args when registering the Custom Post Type, but I can’t
   figure out how to do it with ‘post’. I assume it’s something like changing the
   labels, so I tried this:
 *     ```
       function change_post_icon() {
       			global $wp_post_types;
       			$args = &$wp_post_types['post'];
       			$args->menu_icon = get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/images/newsletters-icon.png';
       	}
       ```
   
 * However, that didn’t work. Any ideas? I’m of course editing my functions.php 
   file.
 * Thanks for any assistance!

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 *  Thread Starter [ronaldfarber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ronaldfarber/)
 * (@ronaldfarber)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-default-posts-admin-icon/#post-2747273)
 * *Sigh* I feel dumb. I should have just done this with good ole CSS. For future
   Googler’s,
 * Enqueue a CSS document in your functions.php file as so:
 *     ```
       if (is_admin()) {
       		wp_enqueue_style('my_meta_css', get_template_directory_uri().'/css/meta.css');
       	}
       ```
   
 * Then in said meta.css document, change it as so:
 *     ```
       .icon16.icon-post, #adminmenu .menu-icon-post div.wp-menu-image {
       	background: transparent url('../images/menu.png') no-repeat scroll -151px -33px !important;
       }
   
       #adminmenu .menu-icon-post:hover div.wp-menu-image, #adminmenu .menu-icon-post.wp-has-current-submenu div.wp-menu-image {
       	background: transparent url('../images/menu.png') no-repeat scroll -151px -1px !important;
       }
       ```
   
 * First one for the normal state, second for the hover.

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 * [menu](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/menu/)
 * [menu icon](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/menu-icon/)
 * [post icon](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/post-icon/)

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-default-posts-admin-icon/#post-2747273)
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