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Description

Create or add new items into the Admin bar.

This is not a function. It is a method of the $wp_admin_bar global (an instance of WP_Admin_Bar), which may not exist except during the 'admin_bar_menu' hook.

Note: The Admin Bar is replaced with the toolbar since WordPress Version 3.3. The preferred way to add items to the toolbar is with add_node().

Initial items in the Admin Bar are($menu_id):

  • my-account-with-avatar - Dashboard, User settings
  • new-content - Short-cut to all custom post types and original ones
  • comments - Comments moderation
  • appearance - Theme selection and Widgets

Usage

<?php $wp_admin_bar->add_menu( $args ) ?>

Parameters

$args
(array) (required) An array of arguments.
Default: None

Arguments 

$defaults = array(
	'href' => false,
	'parent' => false, // false for a root menu, pass the ID value for a submenu of that menu.
	'id' => false, // defaults to a sanitized title value.
	'meta' => false // array of any of the following options: array( 'html' => '', 'class' => '', 'onclick' => '', 'target' => '', 'title' => '' );
);

Example

An an example of custom links for external sites: 

class FacebookMenu {
  
  function FacebookMenu()
  {
      add_action( 'admin_bar_menu', array( $this, "facebook_links" ) );
  }

  /**
   * Add's new global menu, if $href is false menu is added but registred as submenuable
   *
   * $name String
   * $id String
   * $href Bool/String
   *
   * @return void
   * @author Janez Troha
   * @author Aaron Ware
   **/

  function add_root_menu($name, $id, $href = FALSE)
  {
    global $wp_admin_bar;
    if ( !is_super_admin() || !is_admin_bar_showing() )
        return;

    $wp_admin_bar->add_menu( array(
        'id'   => $id,
        'meta' => array(),
        'title' => $name,
        'href' => $href ) );
  }

  /**
   * Add's new submenu where additinal $meta specifies class, id, target or onclick parameters
   *
   * $name String
   * $link String
   * $root_menu String
   * $meta Array
   *
   * @return void
   * @author Janez Troha
   **/
  function add_sub_menu($name, $link, $root_menu, $meta = FALSE)
  {
      global $wp_admin_bar;
      if ( ! is_super_admin() || ! is_admin_bar_showing() )
          return;
    
      $wp_admin_bar->add_menu( array(
          'parent' => $root_menu,
          'title' => $name,
          'href' => $link,
          'meta' => $meta
      ) );
  }

  function facebook_links() {
      $this->add_root_menu( "Facebook", "fcbl" );
      $this->add_sub_menu( "Facebook pages", "http://www.facebook.com/pages/manage", "fcbl" );
      $this->add_sub_menu( "Facebook apps", "http://www.facebook.com/developers/apps.php", "fcbl" );
      $this->add_sub_menu( "Facebook insights", "http://www.facebook.com/insights", "fcbl" );
  }

}
add_action( "init", "FacebookMenuInit" );
function FacebookMenuInit() {
    global $FacebookMenu;
    $FacebookMenu = new FacebookMenu();
}

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Source File

add_menu() is located in wp-includes/class-wp-admin-bar.php.


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