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[Sayontan Sinha]

Otto,
Rather than one sub-menu under Appearance, what I was questioning was a
separate top-level menu, with its own sub-menus. The guidelines have always
been flexible to allow multiple sub-menus under Appearance, however this
seems to add its own top level menu.

Sayontan.

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Sayontan Sinha <sayontan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I took a look at the ticket: this theme asks for an exception on
> > add_submenu_page() because plugins rely on it. Is that permissible? Why
> > wouldn't plugin authors create their own top-level menu instead of
> relying
> > on the theme's? I can foresee a situation where several theme authors
> might
> > request this as an exception saying that they have ancillary plugins
> > developed by others, and the plugin developers rely on a top-level menu
> > required by the theme.
>
> Actually, I've always thought that rule was a bit too tight and could
> do with some loosening up a bit. There's no technical reason to
> restrict theme authors into one-and-only-one menu item, for example.
>
> I don't much like themes (or plugins) adding top level menus myself,
> but I don't see anything particularly bad about a theme adding more
> than one submenu under Appearance, for example. Grouping different
> sets of related functionality into better places for example. Too many
> themes try to implement tabbing or some such to shove everything onto
> one page, which isn't very user friendly.
>
>
> -Otto
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