3rd Menu Level

  • Resolved Julie

    (@habannah)


    10 years, 5 months ago

    This plugin is pretty amazing right out of the box — thanks so much for making it available! I’ve already given it an excellent review ?? If possible, I would love to be able to add a third level to the admin menu (second sub-level). Is there any way to configure this? The reason is that most of my second level menus (sub-menus) are a little too long and the last item gets cut off at the bottom of the screen. It would help a lot for better organisation, too. Thanks for the help!

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  • Plugin Author Janis Elsts

    (@whiteshadow)

    The plugin will support three-level admin menus once WordPress supports them. Right now WP core has a hard-coded limit of two admin menu levels (this only applies to admin menus specifically, not navigation menus and so on).

    Technically it would be possible to add a third menu level with a plugin, but that would take a lot of work. You’d basically have to rebuild most of the admin menu from scratch.

    Thread Starter Julie

    (@habannah)

    Ok, thanks for the info! I’ll see if I can submit that as a suggestion or something…

    I love your plugin, and are happily using the pro version.

    But the missing ability to create sub-sub menus (3rd level) in WordPress backend, is becoming a real problem for me. Hasn’t there been any progress on this?

    Plugin Author Janis Elsts

    (@whiteshadow)

    I’ve been looking into it recently. It looks like it would be possible to add 3rd level menus with JavaScript, but it would be very hard to make the implementation reliable (that is, working in all browsers and compatible with other plugins). You’d have to constantly work around existing WordPress scripts and CSS styles that were all designed under the assumption that there would only ever be two menu levels. The chances of breaking something are very high.

    I’ll see if I can add an experimental, opt-in “3rd level menus” feature to the Pro version in the next few months. However, it will probably only work in desktop browsers (no mobile, at least initially), and it will be completely useless to people who disable JavaScript.

    Ok, i will be happy to try it out and test it in some different sites when you have something you think works.

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