Plainview Plugins

The WordPress SDK offers an easy way to make tabs. The above tabs, taken from ThreeWP Broadcast, consist of the following lines of code.

$tabs = $this->tabs();

$tabs->tab( 'settings' )
 ->callback_this( 'admin_menu_settings' )
 ->name( 'Settings' );

$tabs->tab( 'post_types' )
 ->callback_this( 'admin_menu_post_types' )
 ->name( 'Custom post types' );

$tabs->tab( 'maintenance' )
 ->callback_this( 'admin_menu_maintenance' )
 ->name( 'Maintenance' );

// How I usually handle editing of things
// I only display the edit tab if something is being edited.
if ( $tabs->get_is( 'edit' ) )
 {
   // Retrieve the id of the thing
   $id = intval( $_GET[ 'id' ] );
   // Check that the thing exists
   $thing = $this->get_thing( $id );
   if ( ! $thing )
    $this->wp_die( 'Thing ID does not exist.', $id );

   // And now create the tab, passing the ID and the thing as parameters to the callback.
   // This is so that the callback doesn't have to do double work and retrieve the thing again.
   $tabs->tab( 'edit' )
    ->callback_this( 'admin_menu_edit )
    ->name( 'Editing a thing' )
    ->parameters( $id, $thing );
 }

$tabs->tab( 'uninstall' )
 ->callback_this( 'admin_uninstall' )
 ->name( 'Uninstall' );

echo $tabs;

First the tabs class is instanciated.

Each line after that then creates a tab with a unique ID, settings, specifies which method to call, $this->admin_menu_settings(), and finally the name of the tab to display to the user.

Translation

To translate your tabs, your plugin must first load the languages.

$this->load_language();

Then use the following tab methods:

• heading_() instead of heading()
• name_() instead of name()
• title_() instead of title()

More detailed documentation

For more details, see wordpress/tabs/tabs.php. There you can find information about:

• Callback parameters
• Default tab
• Tab counts
• Tab headings
• Tab title

Querying the request string