WP Plugin : Sort Admin Menus
The dasboard menu can get very cluttered if you have lots of plugins installed on your WordPress blog. Many plugins add their own pages to the menu system and eventually it may turn out that some submenus are so long they barely fit on your screen anymore. What’s worse, the menu items are arranged “in no particular order”, which makes finding the necessary option tedious.
That’s why I wrote a small plugin that can sort the admin menus alphabetically. In the default configuration it will sort the menus that tend to be the most bloated - Manage, Settings and Plugins. You can change which menus are sorted by editing the plugin’s source code - it’s very simple and short.
Download Plugin
sort-admin-menus.zip (1 KB)
Requires : WordPress 2.5
Tested up to : WordPress 2.5.1
Additional Notes
This plugin should be compatible with any “dropdown menu” and “CSS menu” plugins. I’ve successfuly tested it with Admin Drop Fown Menu by Ozh and I’m fairly sure it will work with other similar plugins.
It’s largely a proof-of-concept thing. I could go all-out and make a full-fledged menu editor with drag & drop and whatnot, but I suspect nobody would care. So I wrote this simple plugin instead 
July 15th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
(testing to make sure comments work with WordPress 2.6)
October 18th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Love the plugin but i would love to see the full blown menu editor
October 18th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
@slee - That was my initial idea, but it doesn’t seem there’d be much demand from that (aside from you, of course). Plus an actual editor would be pretty hard to make.
October 18th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
I think you would be suprised i think many would want your plugin. it would be great to be able to properly change where each menu item was and possibly link that with a roles as well. for example i make a site for a client and i dont want them to see tags it wold be great if a - i could rid of the link altogether or b - move it and make it so the client cant see it so only admin see it something
October 18th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Okay, noted. However, it’s still a complex task… I’ll keep it in my idea file for the time being
October 21st, 2008 at 11:56 am
Make that 2 of us
October 23rd, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Make that 3 of us
October 23rd, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Okay okay, I’ll move it a bit higher in my to-do list
I’ve got some other projects planned for the near future, but I might get around to this in November.
October 23rd, 2008 at 8:28 pm
haha what have i started
keep us updated…