Admin Sidebar Sorting

[mikeh]

How are the sidebars in the admin panel sorted? For example, sidebar items (made by plugins) on the settings page..

[n00dles101]

the main sidebar items are hardcoded

plugin items are added in the order they are registered.
which is alphabetically.

we had toyed with using a priority for plugins but we figured everyone would just prioritize their own plugins first...

mike

[mikeh]

the main sidebar items are hardcoded

plugin items are added in the order they are registered.
which is alphabetically.

we had toyed with using a priority for plugins but we figured everyone would just prioritize their own plugins first...

mike

Thanks for answering
So the plugin filename controls the order (Alphabetically), or the plugin name?

[n00dles101]

Just looking into this. The files in the plugin folder read in using the opendir function which on a Unix/Linux system will return the files according to the filestamp.

This causing a problem?

Priority system is easy to implement. It does make sense for some plugins to run after all other, caching etc...

M

[mikeh]

Just looking into this. The files in the plugin folder read in using the opendir function which on a Unix/Linux system will return the files according to the filestamp.

This causing a problem?

Priority system is easy to implement. It does make sense for some plugins to run after all other, caching etc...

M

Its not* (edit: Forgot the "not") so much of a problem as it is an annoyance, I have run into times where the interface would be easier to use if the sidebar was organized a certain way. screenshot explains



It would be great to be able to accomplish ordering like in the below snippet:

Code:

add_action('xxxxxx-sidebar','createSideMenu',array('your-plugin-filename','Menu Text',1));