Comments on: Modify Custom Post Type Icons

By: Barrett Golding

Barrett Golding — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:58:14 +0000

Thanks for this tut. With collapsed admin menus the default in WP3.3, custom icons for CPTs become more important (to replace all those push-pins). For multiple CPTs, rather than list all the styles in functions.php, in might be better to call a stylesheet:


function load_custom_wp_admin_style(){
        wp_register_style( 'custom_wp_admin_css', get_bloginfo( 'stylesheet_directory' ) . '/style-admin.css', false, '1.0.0' );
        wp_enqueue_style( 'custom_wp_admin_css' );
}
add_action( 'admin_enqueue_scripts', 'load_custom_wp_admin_style' );

this stylesheet can serve double-duty for those using TinyMCE's "Styles" select-list: add_editor_style( 'style-admin.css' );

By: ShibaShake

ShibaShake — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 05:15:09 +0000

define( ‘SHIBA_PLUGIN_URL’, WP_PLUGIN_URL . ‘/my-plugin-directory’ );

http://codex.wordpress.org/Determining_Plugin_and_Content_Directories

By: Lukasz

Lukasz — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 14:47:15 +0000

where are you defining “SHIBA_PLUGIN_URL” and can you do this with bloginfo template_url?

By: ShibaShake

ShibaShake — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:17:47 +0000

Hi Joss -
Thanks for pointing out the error. It is now fixed.

Thanks for being a pain and please let me know if you spot more errors.

By: Joss

Joss — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:04:43 +0000

Also, sorry to be a pain, but you’ve got some screwy PHP in your example!

function plugin_header() { ?> global $post_type;

By: Joss

Joss — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:03:20 +0000

Great article – for anybody interested in doing a big of Firebugging, it is possible to duplicate the WordPress style of menu-hover icon with pure css.

Investigate how WP handles it – if you’re adding a ‘podcast’ event type, you’ll get a menu with a css class of menu-icon-podcast. Just use CSS to target that, and its hover state, and you’re set.

By: ShibaShake

ShibaShake — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:53:13 +0000

Nice alternate way for getting the post_type. Thanks!

By: judas

judas — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 02:47:21 +0000

Sorry for commenting twice, but I found an extra bonus. If you simply add something like that: || (get_post_type($_GET['post']) == 'gallery' to your "if" statement you get your custom post type icon in your "edit post" screen too, not only when creating new gallery but when editing one. Again, thanks for pointing it!!!!!

By: judas

judas — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 01:25:03 +0000

Thank you, very usefull. I really dislike how WordPress manages icons for new custom post types and this saved my day!