[wp-hackers] Real Menu/Submenu Hooks (patch)

[Robert Deaton]

Well, yes, those hooks could be easily modified to do anything
menioned there, you just take away the value from the function for
parentfile and substitute it with whatever you want in its place. The
functions could be easily renamed to do any of that, do with it as you
please.


On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 12:20:19 -0500, Ryan Boren <ryan at boren.nu> wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 12:08 -0500, Matt Mullenweg wrote:
> > Robert Deaton wrote:
> > > Unsatisfied with using $menu[23]= as a hook for adding items to the
> > > admin menu, I wrote a patch for the latest CVS to use real hooks. It
> > > also has hooks for the submenus.
> >
> > Does this allow you to say where the menu item goes? Otherwise it's pretty
> > much equivalent to something like
> >
> > $menu['edit.php'][] = ....
> >
> > Whether people should be sticking stuff on the main menu at all is another
> > issue. Perhaps it would be better not to encourage this behaviour for the
> > main menu and allow the submenu to be modified as demonstrated.
> 
> Perhaps plugins that want to add their own, separate management pages
> should add them to a submenu under "Plugins" with something like
> add_plugin_page().  Also, we could provide plugin-header.php and plugin-
> footer.php for inclusion by these pages.  Another possible spot is in
> the options menu.  add_option_page(), option-header.php, ...
> 
> Ryan
> 
> 
> 
> 
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