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[Sayontan Sinha]

Chip,
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.

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.

Sayontan.

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> 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.
>
> Chip
>
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 4:14 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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