I use the add_menu_page
function to add an new admin menu:
add_menu_page(
'Custom_menu',
'Custom_menu',
'edit_posts',
'custom_slug',
'',
'wordpress_existing_icon',
5
);
How to use one of WordPress’ existing icons?
For instance, if I would like to use the “Posts” WordPress icon, by what must I replace 'wordpress_existing_icon'
in the code above ?
I tried 'edit'
and 'edit-posts'
but it doesn’t work.
add_menu_page();
as far as I can tell does not work with screen_icon
or the default CSS parameters. The $icon
paramater only takes 2 options, an url
or div
(well 3 if you leave it empty), so that leaves you with these options:
-
Hard-code the link to the icons which are located in wp-includes/images/wpicons.png
. This is an image slice of all the icons.
-
Just cut out the icon you want in a photo editor and include it as a stand-alone image in your plugin folder like the codex example.
-
Use the div
parameter and define it via CSS. For example;
–
add_menu_page(
'custom menu title',
'custom menu',
'add_users',
'myplugin/myplugin-index.php',
'',
'div', //this part
6);
To elaborate on the previous answer when using screen_icon('edit');
here is the list:
- edit
- upload
- link-manager
- edit-pages
- edit-comments
- themes
- plugins
- users
- tools
- options-general
You can also contain them in a div like :
<div id="icon-edit" class="icon32"></div>
Style reference: http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Wycks/Styling_Option_Pages: