Ken Dirschl

No there is no empty menu item. If the only thing in your menu is Attorney pages, then you would have a menu that consists of the parent page, which would list all the attorney pages.

If you think of it with a normal navigation menu, it would just be something like:

HOME | ABOUT | CONTACT | ATTORNEYS

Something like that.

If the menu is just for Attorneys, and nothing else, you still have to have a page that is the main page.

ATTORNEYS
– Attorney page
– Attorney page
– Attorney page

Hope that makes sense.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by Ken Dirschl.

Gotcha. They have to live under a parent item. So you would have a menu called ‘Attorney’, and page called ‘Attorneys’ and then the custom post types would appear under there.

(ATTORNEY MENU)
  ATTORNEYS
    ATTORNEY PAGE
    ATTORNEY PAGE

• This reply was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by Ken Dirschl.

Thank you so much for this. This plugin was born out of need for a client who was not very savvy with technology, and I just wanted to make it a little easier for them. Quite honestly, I was surprised the functionality did not exist in WordPress.

It’s almost 9 years ago now. I barely use WordPress anymore. I’ve left this plugin in the plugin repository because quite a few people use it. I keep a test site running so I can check it with new versions of WordPress. Beyond that I’ve not invested much time in it anymore.

I’m glad it is still useful for people.

Cheers!

Hi James,
that sounds about right. What is happening? Can you see the Attorney menu in the settings?

Unfortunately no. It probably could be done though. Feel free to fork the code and have a go: https://github.com/badfun/custom-post-type-auto-menu

I’m afraid not. As stated in the FAQ, for top level only.

I believe that is already a feature of WP menus. It’s been so long, I really don’t remember. This was created to solve the issue with custom post types. If WP native doesn’t do it then I’m sure there are other menu solutions out there that would. At the time (2013) there was nothing for custom post types.

Good luck.

Hi,
yes that issue is listed under the ‘Known Issues’ section of the readme. It’s been an issue since the inception of this plugin many years ago. It had to do with how WP filters characters, but honestly I have not looked at it in many years. I’ll take a look again when I can and see if there is anything I can do.

closing

Hello Beat,
Your question is addressed in the FAQ:

“Can I add existing custom post types to the menu

Some users have many existing cpt’s and want to change them to a new menu. This can be done by selecting all your custom post types
and setting them to ‘draft’ status, then back to ‘publish’. The plugin will detect them as new, and they will be added.”

This should still work, but you’ll have to test it out and let me know.
thanks,
Ken

Hard to tell from this statement what kind of issue you are having. It isn’t designed to change the parent item. That’s not what it does. Do you mean you can’t select a parent item? Please describe the problem in a support ticket.

Thank you @degroeifabriek. I’m glad that people are still finding it useful.
cheers!

Good suggestions. Thanks.

Hello,
take a look here for more advanced sorting:
https://developer.www.ads-software.com/reference/hooks/pre_get_posts/

I’ll consider adding reverse sorting, but there are already a lot of plugins that do that.

In future, please don’t give a plugin a one-star review because it lacks a feature you would like to see.

thank you.

Hello,
the sorting is a function of WordPress itself and not the plugin:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/WordPress_Menu_User_Guide