How can you check if you are in a particular page in the WP Admin section? For example how can I check if I am in the Users > Your Profile page?

I’m building a plugin and I want to add bits of javascript in the admin head but only for certain admin pages. I don’t mean pages as in a WordPress page that you create yourself but rather existing admin section pages like ‘Your Profile’, ‘Users’, etc. Is there a wp function specifically for this task? I’ve been looking and I can only find the boolean function is_admin and action hooks but not a boolean function that just checks.

Answers:

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Method 1

The way to do this is to use the ‘admin_enqueue_scripts’ hook to en-queue the files you need. This hook will get passed a $hook_suffix that relates to the current page that is loaded:

function my_admin_enqueue($hook_suffix) {
    if($hook_suffix == 'appearance_page_theme-options') {
        wp_enqueue_script('my-theme-settings', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/theme-settings.js', array('jquery'));
        wp_enqueue_style('my-theme-settings', get_template_directory_uri() . '/styles/theme-settings.css');
        ?>
        <script type="text/javascript">
        //<![CDATA[
        var template_directory = '<?php echo get_template_directory_uri() ?>';
        //]]>
        </script>
        <?php
    }
}
add_action('admin_enqueue_scripts', 'my_admin_enqueue');

Method 2

There is a global variable in wp-admin called $pagenow which holds name of the current page, ie edit.php, post.php, etc.

You can also check the $_GET request to narrow your location down further, for example:

global $pagenow;
if (( $pagenow == 'post.php' ) && ($_GET['post_type'] == 'page')) {

    // editing a page

    }

if ($pagenow == 'users.php') {

    // user listing page

    }

if ($pagenow == 'profile.php') {

    // editing user profile page

    }

Method 3

The most comprehensive method is get_current_screen added in WordPress 3.1

$screen = get_current_screen();

returns

WP_Screen Object (
    [action] => 
    [base] => post
    [id] => post
    [is_network] => 
    [is_user] => 
    [parent_base] => edit
    [parent_file] => edit.php
    [post_type] => post
    [taxonomy] => 
)

Method 4

To offer an alternative method/approach to the above question.

// When you are viewing the users list or your editing another user's profile
add_action( 'admin_print_scripts-users.php', 'your_enqueue_callback' );

// When you are editing your own profile
add_action( 'admin_print_scripts-profile.php', 'your_enqueue_callback' );

function your_enqueue_callback() {
    wp_enqueue_script( .. YOUR ENQUEUE ARGS .. );
}

This method targets the specific pages more directly and avoids needing conditional logic inside your callback(because you’ve already made that distinction in the selected hook).

Method 5

I find it weird that no one has mentioned the fact that the add_menu_page function returns an action hook which you can use to do certain actions only on those pages

$hook = add_menu_page($menu_title, $page_title, $capability, $slug, $function, $icon_url, $position);
add_action( 'load-' . $hook, 'my_admin_enqueue_scripts' );
function my_admin_enqueue_scripts() {
    wp_enqueue_script(/*...*/);
    wp_enqueue_style(/*...*/);
}

If you need the $hook and you didn’t add the menu page yourself the doc is here

For instance the hook for a top level menu page is

load-toplevel_page_$MenuSlug

The hook for a submenu page is

load-$MenuSlug_page_$SubMenuSlug

Following that logic, the hook for the user’s profile page is

load-users_page_profile

All methods was sourced from stackoverflow.com or stackexchange.com, is licensed under cc by-sa 2.5, cc by-sa 3.0 and cc by-sa 4.0