Custom Post Types: Custom columns with Title submenu?

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When viewing non-custom Posts, you get the likes of this submenu:

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I’m not using a title – I’m using custom columns with two fields concatenated:

my species profiles

Is there any quick and easy way of adding the submenu to my custom post columns? Possibly by actually using the ‘title’ field on my custom post creation page – without having the title input box, as it’s unnecessary for my users to see/edit.

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  1. I had a similar situation and I based myself on </wp-admin/includes/class-wp-posts-list-table.php>:499 (function single_row {…case 'title')

    Copy the $actions creation block, and associated variables, (which looks something like this) to your manage_{post_type}_posts_custom_column action:

    $post = get_post( $post_id );
setup_postdata( $post );

$title = _draft_or_post_title();
$post_type_object = get_post_type_object( $post->post_type );
$can_edit_post = current_user_can( $post_type_object->cap->edit_post, $post->ID );

$actions = array();
if ( $can_edit_post && 'trash' != $post->post_status ) {
    $actions['edit'] = '<a href="' . get_edit_post_link( $post->ID, true ) . '" title="' . esc_attr( __( 'Edit this item' ) ) . '">' . __( 'Edit' ) . '</a>';
    $actions['inline hide-if-no-js'] = '<a href="#" class="editinline" title="' . esc_attr( __( 'Edit this item inline' ) ) . '">' . __( 'Quick&nbsp;Edit' ) . '</a>';
}
if ( current_user_can( $post_type_object->cap->delete_post, $post->ID ) ) {
    if ( 'trash' == $post->post_status )
        $actions['untrash'] = "<a title='" . esc_attr( __( 'Restore this item from the Trash' ) ) . "' href='" . wp_nonce_url( admin_url( sprintf( $post_type_object->_edit_link . '&amp;action=untrash', $post->ID ) ), 'untrash-' . $post->post_type . '_' . $post->ID ) . "'>" . __( 'Restore' ) . "</a>";
    elseif ( EMPTY_TRASH_DAYS )
        $actions['trash'] = "<a class='submitdelete' title='" . esc_attr( __( 'Move this item to the Trash' ) ) . "' href='" . get_delete_post_link( $post->ID ) . "'>" . __( 'Trash' ) . "</a>";
    if ( 'trash' == $post->post_status || !EMPTY_TRASH_DAYS )
        $actions['delete'] = "<a class='submitdelete' title='" . esc_attr( __( 'Delete this item permanently' ) ) . "' href='" . get_delete_post_link( $post->ID, '', true ) . "'>" . __( 'Delete Permanently' ) . "</a>";
}
if ( $post_type_object->public ) {
    if ( in_array( $post->post_status, array( 'pending', 'draft', 'future' ) ) ) {
        if ( $can_edit_post )
            $actions['view'] = '<a href="' . esc_url( add_query_arg( 'preview', 'true', get_permalink( $post->ID ) ) ) . '" title="' . esc_attr( sprintf( __( 'Preview “%s”' ), $title ) ) . '" rel="permalink">' . __( 'Preview' ) . '</a>';
    } elseif ( 'trash' != $post->post_status ) {
        $actions['view'] = '<a href="' . get_permalink( $post->ID ) . '" title="' . esc_attr( sprintf( __( 'View “%s”' ), $title ) ) . '" rel="permalink">' . __( 'View' ) . '</a>';
    }
}

    Modify this line:

    $this->row_actions( $actions );          // From this

// This is calling a non static function statically and will throw an error.
// WP_List_Table::row_actions( $actions );

// Correct way, no error.
$WPTables = new WP_List_Table;
$WPTables->row_actions( $actions );

    Not the most futureproof of code but until they wrap it up in a reusable function, its a good working solution.

    Cheers,

  2. In the end, I went for this:

    function species_custom_columns($column){
        global $post;

        if (!isset($title)) {
            $title = $this->getValue('genus',$post->ID,TRUE) . ' ' . $this->getValue('species',$post->ID,TRUE);
        }
        if (!isset($post_url)) { $post_url = get_site_url() . "/wp-admin/post.php?post=" . $post->ID . "&action=edit"; }
        if (!isset($post_url_frontend)) { $post_url_frontend = get_site_url() . "/?p=" . $post->ID; }

        $genus_species = <<<EOT
<strong>
<a class="row-title" title="Edit “{$title}”" href="{$post_url}">{$title}</a>
</strong>
<div class="row-actions">
<span class="edit">
<a title="Edit species" href="{$post_url}">Edit</a>
|
</span>
EOT;
        $genus_species .= $this->delete_post_link('Trash', $title, '<span class="trash">', ' |</span>');

        $genus_species .= <<<EOT
<span class="view">
<a rel="permalink" title="View “{$title}”" href="{$post_url_frontend}">View</a>
</span>
</div>
EOT;

        switch ($column) {
            case "genus_species":
                echo $genus_species;
                break;
            case "common_names":
                echo $this->getValue('common_names',$post->ID,TRUE);
                break;
            case "family":
                echo $this->getValue('family',$post->ID,TRUE);
                break;
            case "group":
                if (get_the_terms($post->ID, 'group')) {
                    $taxonomy_ar = get_the_terms($post->ID, 'group');

                    $output = '<ul>';
                    foreach ($taxonomy_ar as $taxonomy_term) {
                        if ($taxonomy_term->parent) {
                            $output .= '<li> <span style="font-size:6px;">&gt;</span> '. $taxonomy_term->name .'</li>';
                        } else {
                            $output .= '<li>'. $taxonomy_term->name .'</li>';
                        }
                    }
                    $output .= '</ul>';

                    echo $output;
                }
                break;
            case "excerpt":
                //echo the_excerpt();
                break;
            case "date_modified":
                echo the_modified_date('F j, Y @ g:i a');
                break;
        }
    }

    Seems to do the trick!