Я предполагаю, что имя продавца - это другое метаполе, а не название для этого типа сообщения? Если так, вот способ организовать вашу область admin edit.php
// Add a column in admin edit.php to display the Merchant post type data you want shown
add_filter('manage_merchant_posts_columns', 'admin_merchant_columns');
function admin_merchant_columns( $posts_columns ) {
$posts_columns = array(
'cb' => '<input type="checkbox" />', // the checkbox to select the line item
'title' => __( 'Name' ), // post title
'merchant_name' => __( 'Merchant Name' ), // where merchant_name is your meta key for that field
'_merchant_id' => __( 'Merchant ID' ) // merchant id meta key
);
return $posts_columns;
}
// Fill the column with the appropriate items
add_action( 'manage_merchant_posts_custom_column', 'manage_merchant_columns', 10, 2 );
function manage_merchant_columns( $column, $post_id ) {
global $post;
switch( $column ) {
case 'merchant_name' :
$merchant_name = get_post_meta( $post_id, 'merchant_name');
if ( empty( $merchant_name ) )
echo ( '' );
else
print join( $merchant_name, ', ' );
break;
case '_merchant_id' :
$_merchant_id = get_post_meta( $post_id, '_merchant_id');
if ( empty( $_merchant_id ) )
echo ( '' );
else
print join( $_merchant_id, ', ' );
break;
default :
break;
}
}
// add ability to sort by merchant name
add_filter( 'manage_edit-merchant_sortable_columns', 'sort_by_merchant_name' );
function sort_by_merchant_name( $columns ) {
$columns['merchant_name'] = 'merchant_name';
return $columns;
}
add_action( 'load-edit.php', 'sort_by_merchant_name_load' );
function sort_by_merchant_name_load() {
add_filter( 'request', 'sort_merchant' ); // where "merchant" is your custom post type slug
}
function sort_merchants( $vars ) {
if ( isset( $vars['post_type'] ) && 'merchant' == $vars['post_type'] ) { // where "merchant" is your custom post type slug
if ( isset( $vars['orderby'] ) && 'merchant_name' == $vars['orderby'] ) {
$vars = array_merge(
$vars,
array(
'meta_key' => 'merchant_name',
'orderby' => 'meta_value'
)
);
}
}
return $vars;
}