[wp-hackers] add_submenu_page() with no parent

[J.D. Grimes]

There are ways of doing this, but its currently not a "feature" of the function. See these tickets:

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/21424
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18850

- J.D.

On Aug 13, 2013, at 9:47 AM, Pascal Birchler <pascal.birchler at gmail.com> wrote:

> Looks like an error in the Codex to me, since this isn't documented in
> the function
> definition<http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.6/wp-admin/includes/plugin.php#L980>.
> I don't know if this was possible earlier, though. Maybe someone else knows
> more about this function's history?
> 
> 
> 2013/8/13 Jonathan Brinley <jonathanbrinley at gmail.com>
> 
>> According to the codex (
>> http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_submenu_page#Parameters)
>> you can call add_submenu_page() with NULL or options.php as the parent to
>> create an admin page that doesn't appear in the admin menu. options.php
>> does, indeed, work for this, and NULL seems to work on multisite, but not
>> single site installs.
>> 
>> On a single site install, the permissions check
>> in user_can_access_admin_page() gets the incorrect page hook name when it
>> calls get_plugin_page_hookname(). A page registered with a NULL parent gets
>> the hook "dashboard_page_*", but get_plugin_page_hookname() returns
>> "admin_page_*". On multisite, it correctly returns "dashboard_page_*".
>> 
>> So, finally, to my question: is this a bug in the documentation, or a bug
>> in the code? It looks like NULL is unpredictable, and options.php is the
>> only safe way to register an orphan admin page.
>> 
>> Have a nice day,
>> Jonathan
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Jonathan M. Brinley
>> 
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