Moving the location of the plugin settings menu

[cferdinandi]

I'd suggest we elevate the Mashery Plugin settings from a sub-section of the Settings area to it's own dedicated navigation element in the left-hand nav using the add_menu_page() API (docs). This would give it more visibility and make it easier to find.

We can even create a custom Mashery icon to be displayed with it.

Thoughts?

[jpollock]

This is inconsistent with plugins, though. I don't think this makes sense, respective of plugin configuration.

[cferdinandi]

Many plugins do this, which is why there's an API for it. Notable examples include WordPress/Automattic's own Jetpack plugin, and ZenCache.

In particular, if we start to include more options and settings for users and need more than one page to accomplish it, it's a more organized way to handle things. Plugins can and do place there settings menu in various places depending on what they do. Sometimes it's under Settings, sometimes Tools, other times Appearance, and sometimes as it's own menu page. There is no standard place for plugin settings.

From my perspective, we're bolting some serious functionality into WordPress, which makes this worthy of it's own menu.

[jpollock]

Looking at Jetpack in my local wordpress env and thinking about what we're doing, I think we're more in the camp of putting something into the Settings menu. This all depends on scope but currently the scope does not, in my mind, warrant a top tier menu as opposed to a sub menu of Settings. Just my opinion.

[cferdinandi]

Current status: I agree.

Once we start getting into doing things like this, I think it gets more complicated.