[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #12718: Better structure for admin menu

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#12718: Better structure for admin menu
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 Reporter:  scribu                  |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement             |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal                  |   Milestone:  3.5
Component:  Plugins                 |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                  |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch dev-feedback  |
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Comment (by azaozz):

 This is OT here but perhaps we could implement some means of contacting
 the plugin authors directly when there's something in core that affects
 their plugin(s). Creating, refactoring or updating an API shouldn't be
 held back and made dependent on plugins that "do something wrong" with
 it...

 Filtered the plugins that use `global $menu` by plugin name rather than
 file. There are 237 plugins in total. This will be reduced further by
 removing plugins by same authors.

 So, as @nacin suggested, we could commit a new menu API but instead of
 limiting it (a lot) to keep it back-compat, we can email about 200 or so
 plugin authors and ask them to update their plugins.

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