Register an admin page, but don't show it on any menu

I’ve not tried it but what about initially adding the page item as per usual and then hiding it in the menu using CSS?

Nevermind, as is oftern the way, I stumbled across the answer as soon as I stopped looking!

Thanks for the suggestion though Esmi.

$this->pagehook = add_submenu_page(
    'options.php',
    __('Edit Chart'),
    __('Edit Chart'),
    'edit_charts',
    'edit-single-chart',
    array(&$this, 'on_show_page')
);

Explained in the second example in the codex for add_submenu_page().

Ok, so the above code does through up an error –

When checking user_can_access_admin_page(), because options.php is not a key in the global $admin_page_hooks, the page type is set wrongly as admin, not settings. This causes WP to tell me that I do not have permission to edit the page, when I clearly do.

I’d ideally not like to go down the CSS route, but I will look in to that for now.

If anyone has any other suggestions, I’d be greatful.

Thanks.

Hey duck__boy,
The solution at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3902760/how-do-you-add-a-wordpress-admin-page-without-adding-it-to-the-menu works great.

Basically they recommend using the add_submenu_page() function with a NULL value for the $parent_slug parameter.