Creating an admin dashboard menu without a corresponding submenu entry

Hello! I’m making a small MU plugin, and have ran into a small issue. I have a menu entry in the administrator dashboard that looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/6UpZYwD.png but I was hoping to have it look like this: https://i.imgur.com/4P5f5yL.png. Essentially, I’d like the add_menu_page function to not create a corresponding sub-menu item. I see that plugins like WordFence are able to achieve this, but I couldn’t find any examples online showing how. Is there a setting I’m missing? Here is the code I’m using to generate the menu:

<?php

/**
 * standard boilerplate
 */

defined("ABSPATH") or die("this file can't be run directly");

/**
 * settings menu
 */

add_action("admin_menu", "example_settings_menu");

function example_settings_menu() {
  add_menu_page(
    "Example Plugin",
    "Example Options",
    "manage_options",
    "exop",
    "example_settings",
    "dashicons-archive",
    4
  );

  add_submenu_page(
    "exop",
    "Example Plugin",
    "Sub-entry 1",
    "manage_options",
    "sub-one",
    "example_settings_one"
  );

  add_submenu_page(
    "exop",
    "Example Plugin",
    "Sub-entry 2",
    "manage_options",
    "sub-two",
    "example_settings_two"
  );
}

• This topic was modified 5 years ago by nchambers.