I could buy into that, provided that the extra options pages are added via add_appearance_page(). I still think that top-level menu entries should be treated on a case-by-case basis, and generally represent innovative, extended functionality.<div>
<br></div><div>Chip<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Otto <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:otto@ottodestruct.com">otto@ottodestruct.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Sayontan Sinha <<a href="mailto:sayontan@gmail.com">sayontan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I took a look at the ticket: this theme asks for an exception on<br>
> add_submenu_page() because plugins rely on it. Is that permissible? Why<br>
> wouldn't plugin authors create their own top-level menu instead of relying<br>
> on the theme's? I can foresee a situation where several theme authors might<br>
> request this as an exception saying that they have ancillary plugins<br>
> developed by others, and the plugin developers rely on a top-level menu<br>
> required by the theme.<br>
<br>
</div>Actually, I've always thought that rule was a bit too tight and could<br>
do with some loosening up a bit. There's no technical reason to<br>
restrict theme authors into one-and-only-one menu item, for example.<br>
<br>
I don't much like themes (or plugins) adding top level menus myself,<br>
but I don't see anything particularly bad about a theme adding more<br>
than one submenu under Appearance, for example. Grouping different<br>
sets of related functionality into better places for example. Too many<br>
themes try to implement tabbing or some such to shove everything onto<br>
one page, which isn't very user friendly.<br>
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<br>
-Otto<br>
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