In a previous post I discussed how to create a child theme admin page, and talked about a few of the new features of Genesis 1.8, . However, one thing I didn't discuss in the creation of the new admin pages is setting a custom screen icon.

While this may or may not make Genesis core, it is a simple addition. So in your __construct() method with $page_ops, enter a screen icon of 'custom'.
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/**
* Create an admin menu item and settings page.
*
* @since 1.0.0
*/
function __construct() {

// Specify a unique page ID.
$page_id = 'child';

// Set it as a child to genesis, and define the menu and page titles
$menu_ops = array(
'submenu' => array(
'parent_slug' => 'genesis',
'page_title' => 'Genesis - WPS Starter Settings',
'menu_title' => 'WPS Starter Settings',
'capability' => 'manage_options',
)
);

// Set up page options. These are optional, so only uncomment if you want to change the defaults
$page_ops = array(
'screen_icon' => 'custom', // see $this->screen_icon() below
);

// Give it a unique settings field.
// You'll access them from genesis_get_option( 'option_name', CHILD_SETTINGS_FIELD );
$settings_field = CHILD_SETTINGS_FIELD;

// Set the default values
$default_settings = array(
'phone' => '',
'address' => '',
);

// Create the Admin Page
$this->create( $page_id, $menu_ops, $page_ops, $settings_field, $default_settings );

// Initialize the Sanitization Filter
add_action( 'genesis_settings_sanitizer_init', array( $this, 'sanitization_filters' ) );
}
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Next you will need a method to output the necessary CSS to display your icon.
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/**
* Create an admin menu item and settings page.
*
* @since 1.0.0
*/
function __construct() {

// Specify a unique page ID.
$page_id = 'child';

// Set it as a child to genesis, and define the menu and page titles
$menu_ops = array(
'submenu' => array(
'parent_slug' => 'genesis',
'page_title' => 'Genesis - WPS Starter Settings',
'menu_title' => 'WPS Starter Settings',
'capability' => 'manage_options',
)
);

// Set up page options. These are optional, so only uncomment if you want to change the defaults
$page_ops = array(
'screen_icon' => 'custom', // see $this->screen_icon() below
);

// Give it a unique settings field.
// You'll access them from genesis_get_option( 'option_name', CHILD_SETTINGS_FIELD );
$settings_field = CHILD_SETTINGS_FIELD;

// Set the default values
$default_settings = array(
'phone' => '',
'address' => '',
);

// Create the Admin Page
$this->create( $page_id, $menu_ops, $page_ops, $settings_field, $default_settings );

// Initialize the Sanitization Filter
add_action( 'genesis_settings_sanitizer_init', array( $this, 'sanitization_filters' ) );

// Add custom screen icon
add_action( 'admin_head' , array( $this, 'screen_icon' ) );
}
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Now you will need to create the method within the class extension.
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/**
* Custom Admin screen icon
*
* See /lib/classes/sanitization.php for all available filters.
*
* @since 1.0.0
*/
public function screen_icon() { ?>
<style>
#icon-custom { background-image: url('<?php echo WPS_ADMIN_IMAGES . '/staff_32x32.png'; ?>'); background-repeat: no-repeat; }
</style>
<?php
}
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I found this great piece of code at Codebyte.
Put the following in your functions.php file:
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// Check if page is direct child
function wps_is_child( $page_id ) {
global $post;
if( is_page() && ( $post->post_parent == $page_id ) ) {
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
}
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// Check if page is an ancestor
function wps_is_ancestor( $post_id ) {
global $wp_query;
$ancestors = $wp_query->post->ancestors;
if ( in_array( $post_id, $ancestors ) ) {
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
}
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It is fairly simple and straightforward on how to add contextual help tabs to various admin pages, and with the imminent advent of Genesis 1.8, adding contextual help will be as simple as a help() method. There are also a wide variety of great tutorials on how to add contextual help to admin pages, such as Justin Tadlock's Adding contextual help to plugin and theme admin pages.

However, there aren't any tutorials (at least that I could find) on how to add contextual help to edit/add-new post pages. So while I believe this may not be the best way to do this, it works! Being a pragmatist, it works for me!

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// Add contextual help
add_action( 'add_meta_boxes' , 'wps_help' , 10 , 2 );
function wps_help ( $post_type , $post ) {
if ( 'page' == $post_type ) {
$my_help_tab_content = '<p>' . __( 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nullam varius iaculis dui, eu ultricies velit consectetur pellentesque. Phasellus tortor mi, tempor eget pulvinar eu, sollicitudin ut eros. Quisque fermentum dolor elit. Aenean varius nisi placerat lectus elementum fringilla. Aenean at augue mauris, eu euismod mauris. Integer ac eros in ligula pharetra pretium. Pellentesque vel orci nibh. Pellentesque gravida velit ac lacus egestas eget imperdiet metus egestas. Maecenas tellus ligula, molestie ac pharetra id, tristique eu velit. Phasellus id quam in mi tristique gravida eget in quam. Cras ornare leo sed dui lobortis congue.') . '</p>';

get_current_screen()->add_help_tab( array(
'id' => 'my-help-id',
'title' => __( 'My Help Tab' ),
'content' => $my_help_tab_content,
) );
}
}
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