How to easily add shortcuts to WordPress toolbar

How to easily add shortcuts to WordPress toolbar

As with many things, WordPress makes it easy to customize the Toolbar, using the add_node() functions. In this recipe, I’m going to show you how to add a shortcut to WordPress toolbar.

Paste the code below into your functions.php file.

// add a link to the WP Toolbar
function custom_toolbar_link($wp_admin_bar) {
	$args = array(
		'id' => 'gmail',
		'title' => 'Gmail', 
		'href' => 'https://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox', 
		'meta' => array(
			'class' => 'gmail', 
			'title' => 'sales@digwp.com'
			)
	);
	$wp_admin_bar->add_node($args);
}
add_action('admin_bar_menu', 'custom_toolbar_link', 999);

Once done, edit the following, then save the file. You're done!
'id' => 'gmail' — the ID of the

element containing the custom link
'title' => 'Gmail' — the anchor-text for the custom link
'href' => 'https://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox' — the URL for the custom link
'class' => 'gmail' — the class attribute for the custom link
'title' => 'sales@test.com' — the title attribute for the custom link

Thanks to Jeff Starr for the cool tip!