Admin Menus – Name Menu different from first Submenu [duplicate]

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I am creating a submenu with the following code:

add_action( 'admin_menu', 'jp_create_admin_pages' );

function jp_create_admin_pages()
{
    add_menu_page(
        'Members',
        'Members',
        'manage_options',
        'members',
        'jp_handle_admin_members');

    add_submenu_page(
        'members',
        'Membership Types',
        'Membership Types',
        'manage_options',
        'jp_handle_admin_membership_types');
}

This creates a custom menu called ‘Members’ with two sub-menus: ‘Members’ and ‘Membership Types’.

I want to make it so that the first submenu is called ‘All Members’ instead of ‘Members’ (to mirror the built in menu types). Any ideas?

2 Answers
2

The first menu item typically is the parent item and shares the name with that item, you can however manually update the entry directly in the $submenu variable, like so..

add_action( 'admin_menu', 'jp_create_admin_pages' );

function jp_create_admin_pages() {
    global $submenu;
    add_menu_page('Members','Members','manage_options','members','jp_handle_admin_members');
    add_submenu_page('members','Membership Types','Membership Types','manage_options','membership_types','jp_handle_admin_membership_types');
    $submenu['members'][0][0] = 'All Members';
}

That way your parent keeps the original name, whilst the first subitem has another.

Hope that helps.

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