Custom Post Type Admin Icons

Let’s face it, its pretty awesome having the ability to add a custom icon to your admin menus for custom post types. Here is a bit of code we added to the function.php file of our theme for a recent project.  All you need to do is drop your custom icons in the images directory of you theme and tweak the code below. “Newsletters” and “Events” are the names of our 2 custom post types for this project.

add_action( 'admin_head', 'cpt_icons' );
function cpt_icons() {
    ?>
    <style type="text/css" media="screen">
		#menu-posts-newsletters .wp-menu-image {
            background: url(<?php bloginfo('template_url') ?>/images/mail.png) no-repeat 6px -17px !important;
        }
		#menu-posts-events .wp-menu-image {
            background: url(<?php bloginfo('template_url') ?>/images/calendar-blue.png) no-repeat 6px -17px !important;
        }
		#menu-posts-newsletters:hover .wp-menu-image, #menu-posts-newsletters.wp-has-current-submenu .wp-menu-image,
		#menu-posts-events:hover .wp-menu-image, #menu-posts-events.wp-has-current-submenu .wp-menu-image {
            background-position: 6px 7px!important;
        }
    </style>
<?php }

You can find a sweet collection of icons and further direction at RandyJensenOnline.com.

Da Categorie(s): Code, Custom Post Types, Wordpress