Used to be great – Now scatters new menu items all around the dashboard

  • phalancs

    (@phalancs)


    2 months ago

    Since one of the recent updates, the plugin creates new menu items almost everywhere per default. While it used to have a single menu element below “Dashboard” (which is great), it now not only appears in the dashboard menu but also in the admin bar and even creates a new top level settings page.

    Settings pages belong under the “settings” menu and not as a new top level item. Also, I think its bad practice to introduce such major visual changes and activate them per default. I hope they change this behavior, move the settings menu, or at least disable the new items per default.

    EDIT: Upgraded the rating. Please consider the backend menu logic though for further updates. Thanks.

    • This topic was modified 2 months ago by phalancs.
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  • Plugin Author P?r Thernstr?m

    (@eskapism)

    Thanks for the review and for the feedback. You can disable the admin bar menu item in the settings page, but I do agree that maybe it should be off by default. I’ll think about it.

    Very few plugins place themself inside the Dashboard menu item and that was something that I previosly got criticized for. Also there was settings and tools on the settings page, which was odd. So instead of adding another menu item below the tools menu (meaning that the history would be in 3 different places in the admin) I decided it was better to just add one main menu item.

    The menu items below dashboard and settings will be removed in an upcoming version btw, there are just there so users still can find the plugin after the move.

    Thanks again for a constructive review and I hope you still find the plugin useful.

    Thread Starter phalancs

    (@phalancs)

    Thank you that you promptly responded, I will update the review accordingly. Still, why don’t you just put the settings where they belong – as a submenu under the settings-tree. I think it is perfectly fine to have the settings under settings and the tool itself under tools (or dashboard). That would be perfectly logical.

    But having a new top menu is always a problem, There are so many plugins which do this and it creates a mess sooner or later. ??

    Thanks for considering the backend menu logic. I hope you find a clean solution.

    I second this. I have used this plugin for a long time for my internal purposes and do not want it as a top level menu item. I am seriously considering no longer using Simple History because there is no (easy, no code) way to remove it from the top level menu. I was very happy with this nestled underneath the Dashboard.

    Plugin Author P?r Thernstr?m

    (@eskapism)

    @sssv you can change the location, using a GUI setting or using code. See this blog post for more info: https://simple-history.com/2025/simple-history-5-7-0-released/

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