How to Reorder Admin Toolbar Quicklinks in Alphabetical Order

Hello @generosus,

Yeah, sure! I have forwarded your request to the dev team, and as soon as I receive the solution, I will share it with you.

About incorporating this change into the plugin, we’ll discuss this in internal meeting. Thanks! ??

Hi,

In the class-wpa-adminbar.php file, here’s the code for Admin Bar menu options on lines # 39– 40, where these two menu options are added: “Dashboard” and “Refresh Stats.” The other menu options are shown through line#42 when the pro plugin and add-ons (Woo, EDD, Campaigns) are activated.

Now the problem here is that if we make a filter for you, this could conflict with the current flow as you can see the filters are already applied according to the activated plugin. (line#42)

So, we can suggest you comment the line#42 and add other menu options manually after line#40 in the sequence you want. Following are the $menus['xxx'] supported:

$menus['analytify-dashboard&show=detail-realtime'] = ( 'Real Time', 'wp-analytify-pro' ) ;
 
$menus['analytify-dashboard&show=search-terms'] = ( 'Search Terms', 'wp-analytify-pro' );

$menus['analytify-dashboard&show=detail-demographic'] = __( 'Demographics', 'wp-analytify-pro' );

$menus['analytify-woocommerce'] = __('WooCommerce', 'wp-analytify-woocommerce');

$menus['page=edd-dashboard'] = __( 'EDD', 'wp-analytify-edd' );

$menus['analytify-campaigns'] = __( 'Campaigns', 'wp-analytify-campaings' );

Let me know if this fulfills your current requirements.

Hi @emma24,

Thank you so much! That worked great, except as follows:

1. I commented out Lines 42 and 44-46.
2. I corrected two of the $menus line entries you provided. They have a missing underscore (“__”) before the parenthesis. They should be:

$menus['analytify-dashboard&show=detail-realtime'] = __( 'Real Time', 'wp-analytify-pro' );
$menus['analytify-dashboard&show=search-terms'] = __( 'Search Terms', 'wp-analytify-pro' );

Result: Quicklinks in Alphabetical Order (Except “Dashboard”)

Caveat: At your next plugin revision, the above is going to be wiped out, so in reality, a php code snippet would be preferred. Perhaps the Hint provided below can help you develop one.

Hint: The php code snippet can be developed to reorder the sub-menu links (i.e., quicklinks) based on their identifiers (id) as noted here. Along these lines, I used the code snippet provided below to reorder my WP Admin Toolbar menu links in alphabetical order, but couldn’t get it to work for sub-menu links (i.e., quicklinks). Perhaps your PHP gurus can tweak it (using WP functions) to make it work for this topic.

Again, thank you!

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Code Snippet to Reorder WP Admin Toolbar Menu Links in Alphabetical Order:

Reference: How Can I Reorder Admin Bar Items

// Reorder Admin Toolbar Menu Items
function reorder_admin_bar() {
    global $wp_admin_bar;

    // The desired order of identifiers (items) (Note: List the Item ID minus the 'wp-admin-bar" prefix)
    $IDs_sequence = array(
        'wp-logo',
        'site-name',
        'updates',
		'new-content',
		'comments',
		'edit',
		'analytify',
		'avada',
		'tribe-events',
		'wpfc-toolbar-parent',
		'gform-forms',
		'gappointments',
		'perfmatters',
		'rank-math'
    );

    // Get an array of all the toolbar items on the current page
    $nodes = $wp_admin_bar->get_nodes();

    // Perform recognized identifiers
    foreach ( $IDs_sequence as $id ) {
        if ( ! isset($nodes[$id]) ) continue;

        // This will cause the identifier to act as the last menu item
        $wp_admin_bar->remove_menu($id);
        $wp_admin_bar->add_node($nodes[$id]);

        // Remove the identifier from the list of nodes
        unset($nodes[$id]);
    }

    // Unknown identifiers will be moved to appear after known identifiers
    foreach ( $nodes as $id => &$obj ) {
        
		// There is no need to organize unknown children identifiers (sub items)
        if ( ! empty($obj->parent) ) continue;

        // This will cause the identifier to act as the last menu item
        $wp_admin_bar->remove_menu($id);
        $wp_admin_bar->add_node($obj);
    }
}
add_action( 'wp_before_admin_bar_render', 'reorder_admin_bar', 999 );

One other thing … I know my request goes beyond the scope of this support forum, so feel free to develop the code snippet only if you have time and enjoy the challenge ??

Otherwise, this topic is “Resolved.”

Thank you!

Interesting! Thanks @generosus for your contribution.

I’m adding this to our roadmap so we can consider this later on. Thank you! ??

Solution:

Use the code snippet provided below.

If you don’t mind, please add it to your documentation.

Thank you!

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add_filter( 'wp_before_admin_bar_render', function( $items ) {

global $wp_admin_bar;

// Get all current menu items
    $admin_bar_items = $wp_admin_bar->get_nodes();

    // Filter the items that start with 'analytify'
    $analytify_items = array_filter($admin_bar_items, function($item) {
        return strpos($item->id, 'analytify') === 0;
    });

    // Sort the filtered items alphabetically by title
    usort($analytify_items, function($a, $b) {
        return strcmp($a->title, $b->title);
    });

    // Remove the original analytify items from the admin bar
    foreach ($analytify_items as $item) {
        $wp_admin_bar->remove_menu($item->id);
    }

    // Re-add the anlaytify items in alphabetical order
    foreach ($analytify_items as $item) {
        $wp_admin_bar->add_menu((array) $item);
    }

} );

Sure! Thanks for the code snippet. We’ll add this to our documentation for Analytify Filters.