[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #16050: Add 'menu_page' and 'submenu_page' hooks

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#16050: Add 'menu_page' and 'submenu_page' hooks
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 Reporter:  mikeschinkel     |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement      |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:
Component:  Administration   |     Version:  3.1
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  menus has-patch  |
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Changes (by mikeschinkel):

 * status:  closed => reopened
 * resolution:  maybelater =>


Comment:

 You closed this without even giving it a hearing.

 The reason the plugins need to edit the output of the menus is that the
 clients say they don't like the way the current menus work and please
 change them.

 Stying the menus is not at all the issue.  The ability to reconfigure the
 menu as per the client requirements is the issue.

 Here is a screenshot of what the client required the menu to be and I had
 to resort to using `ob_start()`, `ob_get_clean()` and `preg_replace()` to
 make it work; very, very nasty:

 [[Image(http://mikeschinkel.com/websnaps/skitched-20110114-045601.png)]]

 Note there are very few submenu pages, and the "Microsite Editor" subpage
 was required to be displayed for several different URLs in the admin. This
 took over 2 days to get working and that's just insane.

 Listen, I'm not asking for any features, I'm just asking for hooks. I've
 been told if we need hooks the team is happy to include them. Why to
 immediate dismissal of the request for these?

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