Creating two sections for Posts in admin area

I’ll be doing something similar but I haven’t got it worked out yet. In may case I created a second post-edit-like page but I intend to merge it with the main post panel. I’ll try to remember this thread when I do get around to that.

I did actually do some playing about with the code and managed to create a top level admin menu which will redirect to the add-new.php page but appends a query string to set visibility of certain meta boxes and titles.

For example I needed to be able to add News Articles. So I put in the following function in my functions.php file (in my theme folder):

function add_news_menu(){
	add_menu_page( 'Articles', 'Articles', 'administrator', 'news', 'newsbox');
}

and the function “newsbox” that is run when the menu is clicked:

function newsbox(){
	$str="<script type=\"text/javascript\">document.location.href='post-new.php?features=no&title=article';</script>";
	echo $str;
}

This simply redirects to a new post page but with the query string which sets the title to “Add New Article” and turns off the Product Features panel.

This is what I have done so far. I intend doing some database manipulation to force categories too, in order to filter the edit.php listing.

Let me know your progress, too!