<font color="#333333"><font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">This was discussed before, Theme was accepted as case-by-case... :)<br></font></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Sayontan Sinha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sayontan@gmail.com">sayontan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Chip,<br>What would be deemed innovative, extended functionality? Purely from the theme's point of view the theme customization needs no top level menu (everything could be added under "Appearance"). Rather, a top level menu is defined to support plugins that are distributed through the framework store, which may or may not add sub-menu items under this top-level menu. <br>
<br>My contention is that any theme that is distributed as a framework could claim that it needs a top-level menu (even if the theme itself needs none), so that plugins based on the theme could add their menu pages to the top-level menu.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br>Sayontan.</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Chip Bennett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net" target="_blank">chip@chipbennett.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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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.<span><font color="#888888"><div>
<br></div></font></span><div><span><font color="#888888">Chip<br><br></font></span><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Otto <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:otto@ottodestruct.com" target="_blank">otto@ottodestruct.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Sayontan Sinha <<a href="mailto:sayontan@gmail.com" target="_blank">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>
<span><font color="#888888"><br>
<br>
-Otto<br>
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