I am building a plugin that has a custom menu with pages under that menu. A few of those pages are custom post types. I would like to have the main menu stay open when I am on one of those custom post types. Is that possible?
Here is what the menu looks like when I’m on a non-custom post type page:
But when I click on Makes, Models or Types, the “Squirrels” menu closes because those are managed by the custom post type system.
Sorry if this is a duplicate. I looked through some similar questions but didn’t see one that had exactly this same issue.
Thanks!
1 Answer
I figured this out by putting the main menu slug into the show_in_menu key of the custom post type array like so:
$args = array (
'labels' => $labels,
'hierarchical' => FALSE,
'description' => $title . 's',
'supports' => array( 'title' ),
'show_ui' => TRUE,
'show_in_menu' => 'squirrels_inventory',
'show_in_nav_menus' => TRUE,
'publicly_queryable' => TRUE,
'exclude_from_search' => FALSE,
'has_archive' => TRUE
);