Trying to add "Support" admin menu page

Resolved John McAlester
(@johnmcalester)

10 years, 5 months ago

Hi,

I have been trying for a little bit to create a “Support” menu item in the WP admin menu in the dashboard which would launch the Intercom widget.

I have read about the ll_intercom_activator filter and I can create a menu item via the add_menu_page function but I am not sure how I could add a class to the menu slug so that the menu item link becomes the activator for the widget.

Is there a way that I could do this?

Thank you!

http://wordpress.org/plugins/intercom-for-wordpress/

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Plugin Author Simon Blackbourn
(@lumpysimon)

10 years, 5 months ago
Hi John

When you add a menu page, the link is automatically assigned the class toplevel_page_slug, where slug is the fourth parameter you passed in the add_menu_page function.

So you might be able to use this for your activator as follows:
```
add_filter( 'll_intercom_activator', 'johns_activator' );

function johns_activator( $activator ) {
    return '.toplevel_page_slug';
}
```
(replacing slug with your fourth parameter)

I’m not able to test this at the moment, so can you let me know if it works?

Cheers
Simon
Thread Starter John McAlester
(@johnmcalester)

10 years, 5 months ago
Hi Simon,

That works!. Thanks so much for the reply.

Here are the changes that I made to the intercom-for-wordpress.php file in case some of it may be useful to you.

Here is a pastebin of the file.

http://pastebin.com/286ZK8CV

1 – line 99) Added the action to create the support menu page
```
add_action( 'admin_menu',            array( $this, 'create_support_menu'       ) );
```
2 – line 383) Created a function that adds the activator filter, sets the activator, and adds a menu page if the “Create Menu Page” option is checked on the plugin settings page.
```
/**
	 * create the support menu link
	 *
	 * @return null
	 */
	function create_support_menu() {

		add_filter( 'll_intercom_activator', 'pl_intercom_activator' );

		function pl_intercom_activator( $activator ) {
			return '.toplevel_page_support';
		}

		$opts = self::get_settings();

		if ($opts['create-support-menu']){
			add_menu_page(
				'Support',
				'Support',
				'edit_posts',
				'support', //the slug
				'', //the function
				'', //the icon location
				29
				);
		}

	}
```
3 – line 488) Added a check box to the plugin settings page for users to choose whether or not they want the plugin to create a support menu.
```
<tr valign="top">
							<th scope="row">Create support menu link?</th>
							<td>
								<input name="ll-intercom[create-support-menu]" type="checkbox" value="1" <?php checked( $opts['create-support-menu'] ); ?>>
							</td>
						</tr>
```
4 – line 588) Added input validation for the new “create-support-menu” checkbox.
```
$new['create-support-menu']  = absint( $input['create-support-menu'] );
```
Please let me know if any of this code needs correction.

Cheers,
John.
Plugin Author Simon Blackbourn
(@lumpysimon)

10 years, 5 months ago

Hi John

Glad it worked!

Thanks very much for the code, I’m not sure I’ll add that functionality to the plugin though as I prefer to keep it as simple as possible.

In your case, you’ll probably be better off putting your code into a separate plugin or in your functions.php file, so when I update the Intercom plugin your additions won’t be overwritten.

Cheers
Simon

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