Permissions issue when creating an admin sub-menu

rickandersonaia · July 3rd, 2010, 11:30 AM

So I'm working on Chapter 7 Plugin Development. I've created a function that adds the submenu to an existing menu. However, when I click on that submenu item I get an error "You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page". I'm working in WordPress 3.0 and am using the following code:

PHP Code:


			
function ttwtih_create_menu_item(){
    add_submenu_page('thesis-options', __('Image Header', 'thesis'), __('Image Header', 'thesis'), 'edit_themes', __FILE__, 'ttwtih_settings_page');
}

function ttwtih_settings_page(){
    ?>
    <div id="thesis_options" class="wrap">
    <?php
    thesis_version_indicator();
    thesis_options_title(__('Image Header Options', 'thesis'));
    thesis_options_nav();
    ?></div>
    <?php
}

Any suggestions for a solution?

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rickandersonaia · July 3rd, 2010, 01:46 PM

The problem here seems to be that I am trying to add a submenu page to an already existing Theme menu using my plugin.

I don't want to hack the Thesis core to add the submenu there so I'm hoping there is a way to add the submenu by using the add_submenu_page in my plugin.

williamsba · July 9th, 2010, 09:16 AM

Hey Rick,

How are you calling your ttwtih_create_menu_item() function? I tested your code on a Thesis 1.7 install and it worked fine for me. Make sure you are using the admin_menu action hook to register your submenu like so:

PHP Code:


			
add_action('admin_menu', 'ttwtih_create_menu_item');

So the full code snippet would be:

PHP Code:


			
add_action('admin_menu', 'ttwtih_create_menu_item');



function ttwtih_create_menu_item(){

    add_submenu_page('thesis-options', __('Image Header', 'thesis'), __('Image Header', 'thesis'), 'edit_themes', __FILE__, 'ttwtih_settings_page');

}



function ttwtih_settings_page(){

    ?>

    <div id="thesis_options" class="wrap">

    <?php

    thesis_version_indicator();

    thesis_options_title(__('Image Header Options', 'thesis'));

    thesis_options_nav();

    ?></div>

    <?php

}

Place the above code in your custom_functions.php Thesis file and the menu will work perfectly.