[wp-hackers] Enforce Alpahabetical Ordering of Plugin & Options Page

[Ryan Scheuermann]

Enforcing alphabetical tab ordering seems unnecessary just to help 
organize an edge case user with 15 tabs.  Although with the addition of 
the Privacy tab, the Options tabs are becoming cluttered...

Personally, I'd like to see the ability to add plugin tabs between the 
WP tabs.  The arrays used to create the menus already use numbered array 
keys (incremented by 5 each), it wouldn't be a huge change to allow a 
plugin to specify where they want their tab added.  I presume this 
incrementing by 5 was done with the idea that plugins could add tabs 
between, or am I reading that wrong?  I don't see the reasoning for 
sorting the menus and submenus by array key if plugins can't specify 
their own order anyway.

For instance, "add_menu_page" and "add_submenu_page" could have an 
additional "order" parameter, and if that key number was already taken, 
just increment it until a free key is found.  Is there any harm in 
allowing it?

If the code was implemented for specifying where to add the options tab, 
you could just as easily implement your own preferred ordering 
manually.  Put the more pertinent ones toward the front...

Just my thoughts, best regards,

Ryan Scheuermann

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Computer Guru wrote:
> Would it be possible to enforce alphabetical ordering of plugins and tabs on
> the options page without breaking any code compatibility?
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> If you have more than 20 plugins and/or more than 15 tabs it becomes a
> nightmare..
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> I'm thinking the plugins page isn't a problem, but the code used to add a
> tab might break if you alphabetize the tabs page, no?
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