WAJ Admin Menu
Creates menu in WordPress’s Appearances -> Menus & generates list HTML from it. Allows custom-set classes & IDs for elements for easier styling & has easy way to automatically add “Skip to Content” link for screen-reader users. Usage Since admin menus need to be created before initialization to work
Creates menu in WordPress’s Appearances -> Menus & generates list HTML from it.
Allows custom-set classes & IDs for elements for easier styling & has easy way to automatically add “Skip to Content” link for screen-reader users.
Usage
Since admin menus need to be created before initialization to work in the WordPress admin & used later in template files to print, admin menu objects are handled through static methods in the WPAdminMenuManager singleton class.
1st, before admin loads, call the “createAdminMenu” method on WPAdminMenuManager with a slug & title as the 1st 2 mandatory, & a hash map o’ other attributes as an optional 3rd argument. This will make the menu appear under the given name in Appearances -> Menus in the WordPress admin.
Then you can print the menu through PHP in template files or shortcodes in WordPress content editors.
= PHP
To use through PHP, just call the “printAdminMenu” method on the WPAdminMenuManager class with the mandatory argument o’ the slug representing the admin you want to print ( given when creating the menu earlier ) & an optional hash map o’ attributes to o’erride the ones given when creating the menu, if you want to print the same menu in different places with different element classes, for instance.
= Shortcodes
To print through shortcodes, just use the shortcode [admin-menu slug=”%slug%”], with optional extra attributes to o’erride the attributes given when creating the menu.
WPAdminMenuManager also has 2 templates for easier creation o’ admin menus, a header & footer template. Just call WPAdminMenuManager::createHeaderMenu() or WPAdminMenuManager::createFooterMenu() respectively to create them & either call WPAdminMenuManager::printHeaderMenu() or WPAdminMenuManager::printFooterMenu() or use the shortcodes [header-nav] or [footer-nav].
If you try to print a menu that hasn’t been created yet, it will print nothing.
Valid attributes for admin menus ( all are optional ):
- “nav”: represents the nav element that holds everything. Should hold a hash map with either a class or id attribute, or both.
- “ul”: represents ul element. Should hold the same as “nav”.
- “li”: represents li element. Should hold a hash map with a class attribute.
- “a”: represents a element. Should hold the same as “li”.
