Plugin Author
Arnan
(@adegans)
AdRotate belongs right under ‘comments’. If it didn’t, it wouldn’t be there and WordPress wouldn’t provide the option to do so.
Thread Starter
sem101
(@sem101)
Not quite sure I’m understanding or misinterpreting your response — but it seems very defensive vs helpful. (Don’t really care, I’ve seen this debate before.)
“Hijacking” the WP admin is not best practice (menu positions, gui, icon colors, etc). I have 25 plugins all putting their Settings API menus inside Settings. With exception to WPSEO — but at least he puts it below Settings.
Deleting AdRotate plugin now.
Plugin Author
Arnan
(@adegans)
If you feel that creating and managing ad campaigns should be done from a submenu in settings or that the entire AdRotate menu should be below settings that’s completely up to you. I do not share that opinion. Neither do most other users of AdRotate I’m sure (since no-one ever asked).
However, *a lot* of plugins put their menu’s everywhere. Extending all “main” menu’s with sub options. Some put them in the settings menu. Others expand the ‘Posts’ menu. A whole bunch extend the tools and appearance menu. And so on… Pretty much all of them follow the WordPress API. For AdRotate I’ve decided the menu’s belong under ‘Comments’.
That’s not hi-jacking. That’s using options that are available from a API provided by WordPress.
If that does not fit in your site you can edit the plugin yourself. Perhaps there is a plugin to re-arrange things or indeed find another plugin. That’s up to you.
