id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
21424,Adding an Admin Page Slug without and Admin Menu Link,joe.woidpress,,"I'd like to be able to add an admin page slug that runs a function but does not appear in the admin menu.

For instance, if I create a custom object in a plugin managed in a custom database table, I'd like to be able to bring up an edit page for that plugin using a page slug and query var like:

?page=my-plugin-edit-object&object-id=6

...which could help simplify the plugin's architecture into something more pseudo-MVC like rather that having to find some sort of twisted PHP control flow.

I can currently get this functionality by using add_submenu_page with the $parent_slug parameter set to another submenu (since WordPress doesn't support more than one level of submenu nesting). 

For example, in my plugin I'd do something like:

{{{
add_menu_page( 'My Plugin', 'My Plugin', 'manage_options', 'my-plugin', array( $this, 'my_plugin_main_page' ) );
add_submenu_page( 'my-plugin', 'My Plugin: Objects', 'objects', 'manage_options', 'my-plugin-objects', array( $this, 'my_plugin_objects_page' ) );
add_submenu_page( 'my-plugin-objects', 'My Plugin: Edit Object', 'edit object', 'manage_options', 'my-plugin-edit-object', array( $this, 'edit_object_page' ) ); 
}}}

...yet this is sort of in hack territory.

The idea here is that the admin page with the slug 'my-plugin-edit-object' shouldn't be in the main admin menu since it would be accessed only from the 'my-plugin-objects' page with a query var for the id of the object in the database (e.g. ?page=my-plugin-edit-object&object-id=6 as I have above).

Would it be possible to add some kind of ""add_action_page"" function to the API so that we could create plugins which have admin menu slugs which aren't designed to show up as a link in the main admin menu?

This could be quite useful and make it far easier to architect plugins in a sort of ""pseudo-MVC"" fashion...",feature request,closed,normal,,Administration,3.4.1,normal,duplicate,,joe.woidpress@…