Dashicon My CPTs on the Dashboard

To extend on what I said about how my custom post types are in mu-plugins, and knowing that I like MP6 a lot, I thought I should share how I style my icons for CPTs!

First off, the code to add tables has changed totally so I made this simple look to go through my CPTs (ebooks and plugins) and for each one, make a new item, and add that to dashboard_glance_items:

    // Adding to Right Now
    	add_action( 'dashboard_glance_items', 'halfelf_right_now' );
     
    	function halfelf_right_now() {
        	foreach ( array( 'ebooks', 'plugins' ) as $post_type ) {
        		$num_posts = wp_count_posts( $post_type );
        		if ( $num_posts && $num_posts->publish ) {
        			if ( 'ebooks' == $post_type ) {
        				$text = _n( '%s eBook', '%s eBooks', $num_posts->publish );
        			} 
        			if ( 'plugins' == $post_type ) {
        				$text = _n( '%s Plugin', '%s Plugins', $num_posts->publish );
        			}
        			$text = sprintf( $text, number_format_i18n( $num_posts->publish ) );
        			printf( '<li class="%1$s-count"><a href="edit.php?post_type=%1$s">%2$s</a></li>', $post_type, $text );
        		}
        	}
    	}

Next I added in an extra function to the bottom of my CPT page for the styling:

    function helf_cpts_css() {
       echo "<style type='text/css'>
               #adminmenu #menu-posts-ebooks div.wp-menu-image:before, #dashboard_right_now li.ebooks-count a:before {
                    content: '\\f311';
                    margin-left: -1px;
                }
               #adminmenu #menu-posts-plugins div.wp-menu-image:before, #dashboard_right_now li.plugins-count a:before {
                    content: '\\f237';
                    margin-left: -1px;
                }
             </style>";
    }
    
    add_action('admin_head', 'helf_cpts_css');

No, really, that’s it. The content info is grabbed from Dashicons and I’m done. Oh and since there’s no book icon, I used dashicons-welcome-learn-more instead. This works for anything I chose to put in Right Now or my menu, so I have consistency.