Okay, I’ve had two big projects where I’ve been in control of the server enough to namespace and rely on autoloading. First up. Autoloading is awesome. Not worrying about requires is a relatively good thing. Here’s a loader I’ve been using on a few projects. Checks to make sure the class is in the current … Read more
You can make the ‘slug’ for the submenu page equal that of the top level page, and they’ll point to the same place: add_action(‘admin_menu’, ‘my_menu_pages’); function my_menu_pages(){ add_menu_page(‘My Page Title’, ‘My Menu Title’, ‘manage_options’, ‘my-menu’, ‘my_menu_output’ ); add_submenu_page(‘my-menu’, ‘Submenu Page Title’, ‘Whatever You Want’, ‘manage_options’, ‘my-menu’ ); add_submenu_page(‘my-menu’, ‘Submenu Page Title2’, ‘Whatever You Want2’, ‘manage_options’, … Read more
Use Actions and Filters If you think people would like to add or alter some data: provide apply_filters() before returning. P.S. One thing I find a bit disappointing and that your question addresses is the percentage of plugins that are designed only for end-users, i.e. that have no hooks of their own. Imagine if WordPress … Read more