Trying to add "Support" admin menu page

Hi John

When you add a menu page, the link is automatically assigned the class toplevel_page_slug, where slug is the fourth parameter you passed in the add_menu_page function.

So you might be able to use this for your activator as follows:

add_filter( 'll_intercom_activator', 'johns_activator' );

function johns_activator( $activator ) {
    return '.toplevel_page_slug';
}

(replacing slug with your fourth parameter)

I’m not able to test this at the moment, so can you let me know if it works?

Cheers
Simon

Hi Simon,

That works!. Thanks so much for the reply.

Here are the changes that I made to the intercom-for-wordpress.php file in case some of it may be useful to you.

Here is a pastebin of the file.

https://pastebin.com/286ZK8CV

1 – line 99) Added the action to create the support menu page

add_action( 'admin_menu',            array( $this, 'create_support_menu'       ) );

2 – line 383) Created a function that adds the activator filter, sets the activator, and adds a menu page if the “Create Menu Page” option is checked on the plugin settings page.

/**
	 * create the support menu link
	 *
	 * @return null
	 */
	function create_support_menu() {

		add_filter( 'll_intercom_activator', 'pl_intercom_activator' );

		function pl_intercom_activator( $activator ) {
			return '.toplevel_page_support';
		}

		$opts = self::get_settings();

		if ($opts['create-support-menu']){
			add_menu_page(
				'Support',
				'Support',
				'edit_posts',
				'support', //the slug
				'', //the function
				'', //the icon location
				29
				);
		}

	}

3 – line 488) Added a check box to the plugin settings page for users to choose whether or not they want the plugin to create a support menu.

<tr valign="top">
							<th scope="row">Create support menu link?</th>
							<td>
								<input name="ll-intercom[create-support-menu]" type="checkbox" value="1" <?php checked( $opts['create-support-menu'] ); ?>>
							</td>
						</tr>

4 – line 588) Added input validation for the new “create-support-menu” checkbox.

$new['create-support-menu']  = absint( $input['create-support-menu'] );

Please let me know if any of this code needs correction.

Cheers,
John.

Hi John

Glad it worked!

Thanks very much for the code, I’m not sure I’ll add that functionality to the plugin though as I prefer to keep it as simple as possible.

In your case, you’ll probably be better off putting your code into a separate plugin or in your functions.php file, so when I update the Intercom plugin your additions won’t be overwritten.

Cheers
Simon