more than 5 custom post types screws up menu_position parameter

[stunnaboi]

On a personal 3.01 install I have 7 custom post types registered and notice that the 5th and 7th fall below the Comments menu item. It was pointed out to me on the wp-testers email list that the menu is probably constructed as an indexed array. Pages is #20, Comments is #25, so these extra post types get assigned the 2 free indices after 25: 26 & 27, which puts them below Comments. Not a huge deal, but restricts neat organization in the admin on highly customized sites.

[duck_]

Related: #12718 and #14666

[nacin]

Sorry, we're not going to be changing how this works. You'll need to manually modify the positioning of the Comments menu item if necessary.

[garyc40]

Replying to nacin:

Sorry, we're not going to be changing how this works. You'll need to manually modify the positioning of the Comments menu item if necessary.

I noticed how the admin menus are organized that way long time ago. I'm just curious about why that structure is chosen and what are the benefits. Could you give me a hint?

[antwortzeit]

Wrote a small fix for one of my projects, that gives us a little more Space. Kind of dirty, but maybe some of you may find it useful. So feel free to grab...

function antwortzeit_move_media () {
	global $menu;
	$menu[14] = $menu[10];
	unset($menu[10]);
}
add_action('admin_menu', 'antwortzeit_move_media');

[markjaquith]

Replying to garyc40:

I noticed how the admin menus are organized that way long time ago. I'm just curious about why that structure is chosen and what are the benefits. Could you give me a hint?

Backwards compatibility. We have an API function for removing menus now, so maybe once that has soaked a bit, we can start deprecating direct access hacks and space out the default menus a bunch more so there is a lot more space between each of them.