How can I rearrange items on the dashboard navigation?

[Charlie Chauvin]

I just added a custom post type but on the dashboard it comes up at the bottom of the left navigation on the dashboard. Is there a way through the functions to push it further up on the list. For that matter is there a way I can rearrange them all to my liking so that I can streamline my clients thought process navigating the back-end. Thank you very much!

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[Paul]

Via the register_post_type parameters there is a 'menu_position' option to control where in the left nav the post type menu appears. 

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_post_type

As far control of the WP default items Im sure these is a plugin that can hook into this. 

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[Bill Erickson]

Take a look at the twentyten crm theme to see how we did it (if I wasn't on my phone id post the actual code ).

Http://www.billerickson.net/twentyten-crm

[Charlie Chauvin]

Thanks for the replies. I looked at both and while it's not an exact science, something like 'menu_position' => 05, gets me where I need to be. I wish I could specify an order, but from what I could tell it just moves it below something existing. For example my post types are Posts and Bios. I can move Bios below Post, but not above it. This works better for me though.

Bill, thanks for the working example. Looks like a useful theme. I've been hacking my way through your Custom Meta Boxes so this is helpful to see what I could be doing better.

Thanks

[Bill Erickson]

In the theme I linked to you can use this function to reorder those however you want. If you wanted bios before posts you could do this:

// Customize Admin Menu Order

add_filter( 'custom_menu_order', 'crm_custom_menu_order' );

add_filter( 'menu_order', 'crm_custom_menu_order' );

function crm_custom_menu_order( $menu_ord ) {

if ( !$menu_ord ) return true;

return array(

'index.php', // this represents the dashboard link

'edit.php?post_type=bios', //the bios tab

'edit.php', //the posts tab

'upload.php', // the media manager

'edit.php?post_type=page', //the posts tab

    );

}

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[Charlie Chauvin]

Bill,
This is awesome! I see all the extras in your theme now. Just need to make sense of them, but it's working now.

Thanks again!