Change Admin Menu Order Logic

[binarybit]

I am consistently frustrated with the hacks I need to implement in order to get my custom post types to show up correctly on the left hand side admin areas.

More specifically I often find that I want to place a custom post type above the dashboard or directly below it.

Currently this is not possibly without some unnecessary hacks.

My proposal is that we allow the ability to specify/overwrite the menu order and the grouping of admin menu elements in a simple way through the functions.php file

This should essentially just allow me to order the admin menu in any way I might want to customize it without being so restrictive.

[nacin]

You can pass a menu_position parameter when registering a custom post type.

Otherwise, how much of your request is a duplicate of #14145 and #14666?