[wp-hackers] 2.7 Wireframes

[Peter Westwood]

Ozh wrote:
>>> (2) I am looking forward to seeing these new 'icons' on the top 
>>> level menus.
>>> Is there going to be an API to allow plugins to define their own?
>>>       
>> Good question.  I haven't thought about it yet. Ideas on API?
>>     
>
> For what it's worth, this is something I've implemented in my Admin Drop 
> Down plugin, where other plugins can define their own icon in the menus.
>
> I think the ideal API for plugins should be something like:
> add_filter('menu_icon', 'myplugin_icon');
> function myplugin_icon($plugin) {
>         if ($plugin == plugin_basename(__FILE__))
>                 return 'url/to/icon.png';
>         return $plugin;
> }
>
>   
I think that it should either be passed into add_*_page or we should 
fire a filter which is based on plugin_basename like the 
activate/deactivate ones so that we don't need to call/write unecessary 
code.

e.g.

add_filter('menu_icon_my_plugin', 'myplugin_icon');
function myplugin_icon($default_url) {
   return 'url/to/icon.png';
}


I prefer the add_*_page version though. As we currently have for 
add_menu_page - [9182]

westi

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