[wp-hackers] Plugin Settings Menu Location

[Jennifer Hodgdon]

alex at mysoutham.com wrote:
> This seems like a very logical method, that I think kind of sums up what
> *most* people have been saying on this topic. I suggest adding this to the
> codex at this point...?

It's already more or less there, has been for ages:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Adding_Administration_Menus

    --Jennifer

> Charles E. Frees-Melvin wrote:
>> FWIW, my opinion on this matter, is that there needs to be a "style"
>> guideline written up for plugins. But here is my opinion.
>>
>> Settings Menu Pages: Plugins with setting pages, that may need to be
> changed.
>> Plug-in Menu Pages: Pages that are a one-time configuration.
>>
>> Main Menu Pages: Pages that are features used often. e.g. File Manager,
> Podpress
>> Write Menu Mages: Pages that add content to wordpress.
>>
>> Manage Menu Pages: Pages the manage content that was addend by the last.

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