Up until around 3.3beta1 items in the WP_Admin_Bar Object
could be accessed using this type of syntax, for example to change the CSS class of one of the existing menu items:
$wp_admin_bar->menu->{'wp-logo'}['meta']['class'] = 'new-class';
When running print_r($wp_admin_bar)
the output looked something like this:
WP_Admin_Bar Object
(
[menu] => stdClass Object
(
[my-account] => Array
(
However, around version 3.3beta2
the above syntax for changing a menu item's CSS class no longer works, and the output from print_r($wp_admin_bar)
reveals a different structure for that object:
WP_Admin_Bar Object
(
[nodes:WP_Admin_Bar:private] => Array
(
[my-account] => stdClass Object
(
[id] => my-account
)
I realize that Wordpress may not want me fiddling with the menus this way, and if there was a more standardized way to do this I would love to use it, but as far as I know there are only two functions that are available to modify the admin bar, add_menu_item
and remove_menu_item
, and these do not give the flexibility to do things like changing the attributes of existing menu items.
To confirm, I looked at wp-includes/class-wp-admin-bar.php
it is clear that Wordpress has changed the way they define the variables.
Old Class
class WP_Admin_Bar {
var $menu;
var $proto = 'http://';
var $user;
New Class
class WP_Admin_Bar {
private $nodes = array();
private $root = array();
public $proto = 'http://';
public $user;
So my question is if I have access to the global $wp_admin_bar
object, is there I way I can access the objects inside nodes:WP_Admin_Bar:private
? And if not, is there another way to get to these objects, such as creating a new class that extends the WP_Admin_Bar
class and then accessing the objects from there?
ps: I'm trying to overcome this challenge without changing the core Wordpress files...
Link to the file: http://phpxref.ftwr.co.uk/wordpress/nav.html?wp-includes/class-wp-admin-bar.php.source.html