“Hijack” main menu

  • Resolved opicron

    (@opicron)


    6 months, 2 weeks ago

    Why does Codeixer feel the need to ‘hijack’ the main menu by inserting their company name as a menu option?! If you need more visibility work on your ads or marketing. We do not want another main menu option for just using one of your plugins.

    The wishlist settings can be placed perfectly under woocommerce or in settings.

    Codeixer main menu hijack

    • This topic was modified 6 months, 2 weeks ago by opicron.
    • This topic was modified 6 months, 2 weeks ago by opicron.
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  • Plugin Author Niloy

    (@im_niloy)

    Hey there!
    Thanks for your suggestion. We still need to add a menu in the admin bar. We have a few more plugins, and any user who uses more than one of our plugins or settings will see them under the ‘Codeixer’ menu, making it easy to navigate between them.

    You can use this code in your child theme functions.php to hide the menu

    /**
 * Removes some menus by page.
 * https://developer.www.ads-software.com/reference/functions/remove_menu_page/
 */
function wpdocs_remove_menus(){
  
  remove_menu_page( 'codeixer' );                  //Dashboard
  
}
add_action( 'admin_menu', 'wpdocs_remove_menus' );
    Thread Starter opicron

    (@opicron)

    I disagree with the statement “making it easy to navigate between them”. The Codeixer main menu has one function and that is to promote or market the brandname.

    Plugin settings are supposed to be found under the settings menu where they are needed.

    • Woocommerce main menu option for Woocommerce plugins
    • Settings main menu for general plugins
    • Tools main menu for tools

    If we use the hook to remove the Codeixer main menu there is no ‘normal’ flow to find the plugin settings. Which seems counter productive to a settings menu.

    Plugin Author Niloy

    (@im_niloy)

    You can find the settings link under the plugin name at plugins page or also can use custom hook to show it under Different menu.

    • This reply was modified 6 months, 2 weeks ago by Niloy.
    Thread Starter opicron

    (@opicron)

    You realize that finding setting through the plugin list is a nonsensical way right?

    If ALL plugin developers follow your odd way of thinking we would have a LOT of main menu options.

    Which means I would have to run multiple snippets to remove these menu options, and having no sensible way of finding the options pages.

    Way to go! I will be removing this plugin from our current websites.

    Plugin Author Niloy

    (@im_niloy)

    Honestly, many company is follow this, maybe with other thinking.
    it’s fully up to you to use this plugin or not.
    Good luck

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