Users Site Menu Link Plugin

This morning, while working in my support forum for Easy Digital Downloads, I needed to look up a user’s account. Instinctively, I went to the site menu in the tool bar, opened the sub menu and tried to navigate straight to the Users admin page. That’s when I remembered there isn’t a Users link added to the site menu, so out of my own personal desire for a short cut to a page I spend a lot of time interacting with, the Users Site Menu Link plugin was born.

The plugin is extremely simple (just 14 lines of PHP) and just adds a new Users link to the main site menu in the toolbar:
Screenshot from 2014-02-11 11:22:20

Thanks to the $wp_admin_bar class, adding a new link to the toolbar is extremely simple:

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<?php
/*
 * Plugin Name: Users Site Menu Link
 * Description: Adds a link to the Users management page to the site's toolbar admin menu
 * Author: Pippin Williamson
 * Author URI: https://pippinsplugins.com
 * Version: 1.0
 */
 
 
function pw_users_site_menu_link( $wp_admin_bar ) {
 
	if( is_admin() || ! current_user_can( 'edit_users' ) ) {
		return;
	}
 
	$args = array(
		'parent' => 'site-name',
		'id'     => 'users',
		'title'  => __( 'Users' ),
		'href'   => admin_url( 'users.php' )
	);
	$wp_admin_bar->add_node( $args );
}
add_action( 'admin_bar_menu', 'pw_users_site_menu_link', 999 );

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  1. Rene Hermenau

    Simple, but extreme useful. Great add on.
    Thanks, Pippin.

  2. jtorres_mora

    Thanks for the useful tip!

  3. Ed

    Good stuff Pippin. Speaking of good stuff maybe you would like to add your site / participate in the Day We Fight Back Action? Or maybe just help spread the word?

    https://thedaywefightback.org/

    Best Regards,
    Ed

  4. Jason Witt

    This is just one of those duh moments when I have to think “Really, why isn’t that in core”?

    Thanks Pippin, for bringing sanity back, again.

  5. Piet

    Now that is handy little plugin, thanks Pippin!

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