[wp-hackers] Adding new Menu Modules to Wordpress
Nikola Nikolov
nikolov.tmw at gmail.com
Wed Jan 29 22:45:59 UTC 2014
I was actually able to create a custom meta box, render some sample data in
it, have functional "Select all" link and be able to add the item to the
menu and save it. It seemed like the url parameter of the menu item was not
going through, but I guess you might have to hook to the
'wp_setup_nav_menu_item' filter and correct your items from there. You
might also have to poke around in order to see how things work. I would
suggest looking at the following function:
- wp_nav_menu_item_taxonomy_meta_box<https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/c944323a4fef0dbfff96662c55c4fdbfc9d548ba/wp-admin/includes/nav-menu.php#L867>-
this renders the taxonomies metabox - so where you would select
categories for instance.
I'm not a 100% sure if the "admin_head-nav-menus.php" action hook is the
correct place to register the meta box, but since the "add_metaboxes" hook
doesn't fire on the nav-menus.php page. Besides in the source(for
/wp-admin/nav-menus.php) the function that registers the meta boxes is
actually just called midst-page I assume that it should work fine.
A lot of the HTML classes and ids are related to some of the
functionality(most notably the select all link and add to menu button), so
if you change one class/id and don't change the related one, things might
stop working. I didn't go through the JS code in order to find what the
correlation is and therefore what the format should be, but I assume for
the add to menu button you want to have it's id be
"submit-{$wrapping_div_id}", where $wrapping_div_id would be the ID of the
div that holds all of your content - in the example code that would be <div
id="my-plugin-div">.
You can see the code here - https://gist.github.com/nikolov-tmw/8698598
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:37 PM, Nikola Nikolov <nikolov.tmw at gmail.com>wrote:
> From what I tracked in source for the past couple of minutes is that
> pretty much these are just normal meta boxes, just registered for the
> nav-menu screen with context set to "side".
>
> I'll do some tests and poke around and come back with any findings.
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:33 PM, Dobri <dyordan1 at ramapo.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just speaking from experience, I tried to do something like that a couple
>> of months ago and reached pretty much nowhere using multiple approaches.
>> Menu items seem to be semi-hardcoded. What I ended up doing in the end is I
>> used custom links and used their title/link/alt fields as parameters that
>> are parsed by a custom walker. Here's some code if you'd like to look into
>> the idea:
>>
>> //you need a custom walker class. you can override start_el and a bunch
>> of other methods, look into the definition of Walker_Nav_Menu
>> class Custom_Walker extends Walker_Nav_Menu
>> {
>> function start_el(&$output, $item, $depth=0,
>> $args=array())
>> {
>> //If it's a subitem, ignore and revert to regular
>> Walker
>> if( 0 != $depth )
>> {
>> parent::start_el($output, $item, $depth,
>> $args);
>> }
>> else
>> {
>> //If the title of the thing begins with
>> the word Divider
>> if(preg_match('/^Divider/',$item->title)
>> == 1)
>> {
>> global $wp_query;
>> //assure proper indentation
>> $indent = ( $depth ) ?
>> str_repeat( "\t", $depth ) : '';
>>
>> //open the divider li
>> $output .= $indent . '<li
>> class="noLink">';
>>
>> //generate the inside code
>> $item_output = $args->before;
>> $item_output .=
>> $args->link_before . apply_filters( 'the_title', $item->attr_title,
>> $item->ID ) . $args->link_after;
>> $item_output .= $args->after;
>>
>> //finish it up
>> $output .= apply_filters(
>> 'walker_nav_menu_start_el', $item_output, $item, $depth, $args );
>> }
>> else
>> {
>> parent::start_el($output, $item,
>> $depth, $args);
>> }
>> }
>> }
>> }
>>
>> and wherever you render the menu:
>>
>> $walker = new Custom_Walker();
>> wp_nav_menu(array('theme_location' => 'rail_menu', ..., 'walker' =>
>> $walker));
>>
>> Not very extensible as you might imagine though. The code above adds a
>> little divider element if the title of the custom link begins with Divider.
>> I'd be happy to see someone else offer a better solution, I'd implement it
>> myself right away.
>>
>> ~Dobri
>>
>> On Wed, 29 Jan 2014, at 4:21 PM, BenderisGreat wrote:
>>
>> > I have searched around, and have not been able to find the solution
>> myself.
>> > I would like to add a new module of items to the Appearance->Menus page
>> in
>> > the backend.
>> >
>> > This is the page:
>> > http://codex.wordpress.org/images/c/ca/appearance-menus.png
>> > <http://codex.wordpress.org/images/c/ca/appearance-menus.png>
>> >
>> > Where it says Pages, Links, Categories. Is it possible to add an
>> additional
>> > section there with unique menu items specific to a plugin. The links I
>> > would like to add in a custom module are dynamic, created using rewrite
>> > rules.
>> >
>> >
>> >
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