Comments on: Quick Configuration Links For All Plugins : A WordPress Hack

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Fri, 21 May 2010 10:27:30 +0000

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By: Loan Modification

Loan Modification — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:41:35 +0000

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By: Artem Russakovskii

Artem Russakovskii — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:21:23 +0000

Another priceless plugin. I was so frustrated at WP for not doing this by default – it makes so much sense. Stumbled and delicioused.

By: White Shadow

White Shadow — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:37:22 +0000

Arrgh, turns out the WP menu system is way more twisted than I though. Everything you reported should be fixed now. Re-download the new version from the same link.

As far as I know the core functionality won’t be exactly like this – it will just make it easier for plugin authors to add the links, it won’t automatically show them for all older plugins (or at least that’s how I understand it).

By: Kim

Kim — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:58:17 +0000

I’ve discovered an issue that needs addressing. When logged in as a subscriber, I am getting the following warning at the top of the Profile page:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/xxxxxx/public_html/xxxxxx/wp-content/plugins/plugin-settings-links/plugin_settings_links.php on line 96

Lines 94-96 are:

//Check all menus for plugin pages
foreach ($items as $topmenu => $item){
foreach ($item as $subitem){

I do not get that warning when logged in at the admin level.

Any ideas on a fix?

By: Kim

Kim — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:40:47 +0000

I’ve just installed your plugin, and, so far, all of the plugins that have a settings page have the link added. However, there are 2 plugins where the link provided isn’t accurate:

Akismet – the link goes to the new Akismet Stats page rather than the configuration page.

Wassup – brings up a 404 page. (http://www.wpwp.org/)

I also see in the latest post on the Weblog Tools Collection blog where this functionality is going to be included in the core. I think that’s great! :)

By: White Shadow

White Shadow — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:06:36 +0000

Thanks for checking it out :)

Yes, it might be helpful to know which plugins don’t have the link. I had several plugins missing the links, but I’ve fixed that for all the plugins I have installed.

I don’t think I can – or should – alter the behaviour of the settings page itself without inventing some kind of JS hack, unless there’s an API that I don’t know about (possible).

By: Jeffro2pt0

Jeffro2pt0 — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:51:46 +0000

So I’ve checked out the plugin on my local install and I’m happy to report that most of the plugins now have a settings link in the plugin management panel. However, now all of the plugins have the link. This is probably due to the age of the plugin and the way it was coded.

Do you want a list of plugins I discovered that don’t have the settings link?

Other than that, the only issue I see now is that I have to use my browsers back button to go back to the plugin panel instead of clicking on a link to go back or, after clicking a save button to save the settings, have it redirect me back to the plugin panel.

By: Easy Configuration Links - Progress | WP FUN

Easy Configuration Links - Progress | WP FUN — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:33:43 +0000

[...] everyday users though there is another option. White Shadow has written a plugin that will find plugins that are adding config menus to the WordPress admin and add a configure link [...]

By: Jeffro2pt0

Jeffro2pt0 — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:23:19 +0000

This sounds like a really cool idea. Going to give this a shot on my local WordPress install which has a host of plugins and I’ll probably write this up in a future post. Thanks for the link and this contribution to the community.