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OK, WordPress Designers and Developers. I finally have figured out how to use the new Dashicons. If you do not know what the Dashicons are, go to the website here. With WordPress getting a nice overhaul in the admin theme, Dashicons are used throughout the new admin theme. So I just got finished making a new plugin which required a custom post type. So I wanted to give the new post type a cool new Dashicon then the default pin. So here are the steps:

1. In the custom post type script where you normally state the menu_icon this is what your syntax will be (see highlighted line # 22):

function create_orl_books()
{
register_post_type( 'orl_books',
  array(
    'labels' => array(
    'name' => 'ORL books',
    'singular_name' => 'ORL Book',
    'add_new' => 'Add New',
    'add_new_item' => 'Add New ORL Book',
    'edit' => 'Edit',
    'edit_item' => 'Edit ORL Book',
    'new_item' => 'New ORL Book',
    'view' => 'View',
    'view_item' => 'View ORL Book',
    'search_items' => 'Search ORL Book',
    'not_found' => 'No ORL Book found',
    'not_found_in_trash' =>
    'No ORL Book found in Trash'
    ),
    'public' => true,
    'menu_position' => 15,
    'menu_icon' => 'dashicons-[book]',    'supports' => array('title', 'editor', 'thumbnail')
    )
  );
}

2. OK. Now we know where to place the code correctly, how do we get the Dashicons? Go to the Dashicons website and find the icon that you would like to use.Click on the icon and go back to the top of the Dashicon home page and click on copy html. There you will see what the CSS class is and get that name and place it in the brackets on the menu-icon line.

3. Save your css page and then refresh your admin webpage and this is what you should see:

WordPress Beginners Tutorial – Building a Theme Options Page

After many hours of searching the web, looking for some great WordPress admin theme options page tutorials, I have found a lot of different methods which became confusing and complicated. So after many hours of learning and understanding how to create an options page, and after including an options page for some of my clients, I decided to create the most BASIC tutorial on this issue. I will try to be as basic and simple as possible so beginners can follow along easily. This tutorial expects the user to have a beginner background in html, php and WordPress. This tutorial will show the very minimal things to code to get a working options page in your WordPress theme. After you start to understand and learn the basics, then you can branch out and find some more advanced tutorials. So here we go. To set this up, say we are creating a brand new WordPress theme called Blitz. If there already is a WordPress theme called Blitz, this tutorial has no relationship to that theme and is purely by coincidence. Of course with our new Blitz theme, we have a folder called Blitz under our themes folder and includes the very basic files that are required for a WordPress Theme. The files we have in our Blitz folder are index.php, header.php, footer.php, style.css and functions.php.

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Adding Dashicons to Custom Post Types Admin Menu

WordPress Beginners Tutorial – Building a Theme Options Page