[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #3576: Stopping anarchy in plugins' menus

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#3576: Stopping anarchy in plugins' menus
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 Reporter:  PozHonks        |        Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  enhancement     |       Status:  reopened 
 Priority:  low             |    Milestone:  2.3      
Component:  Administration  |      Version:           
 Severity:  minor           |   Resolution:           
 Keywords:                  |  
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Comment (by filosofo):

 Replying to [comment:13 foolswisdom]:
 > How does Firefox do this? The way I described. The alternative of an ad
 hoc, potentially long list of options seems like no solution at all.

 In the case of Firefox, the person installing plugins is much more likely
 to be the user, and even with Firefox a lot of plugin menus / toggle
 buttons appear alongside core features in the status and navigation bars,
 so that one could easily forget which is core and which is extension (or
 add-on, whatever they're called these days).

 In contrast to the single-user approach, for WordPress there is often an
 admin who installs WordPress and plugins and a separate author or authors
 who do the most day-to-day use.  It's the latter group I'm thinking of.

 I agree with you that in the case of a plugin needing to be configured
 just once upon activation--such as entering the Akismet key--it makes
 sense to put it in the plugins menu.

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