Comments on: Modify Custom Post Type Icons

By: Rahul

Rahul — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 09:36:42 +0000

hello, i am unable to mention the address of image that is to be uploaded. Can you suggest an alternate in place of “SHIBA_PLUGIN_URL” ???
It will be helpful…Thanks

By: Stubby

Stubby — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 13:00:13 +0000

You can reduce the overhead on changing your 32×32 Icon on custom post type pages by removing the PHP logic and handling this with CSS directly.

#icon-edit.icon32-posts-gallerires {
background: url(/path/to/your/backgound/image.png);
}

This way you can enqueue a single CSS file to handle all your admin CSS. You’ll stop using obtrusive CSS and reduce the amount of server-side logic required to handle what should really be a small lift.

I know this is an old post but I thought I’d mention it in case someone else rolls around here looking for this information.

By: Umang

Umang — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 06:26:18 +0000

Awesome!! and simple

By: Kaiser

Kaiser — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:25:55 +0000

There's a much easier way:

// Echo directly
screen_icon();
// Use later
$icon = get_screen_icon();

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

In reply to Lukasz.

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

In reply to Joss.

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.