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@…