EO settings

[Dave Navarro]

Can you add an option to move the “Event Organiser” settings from the “Settings Menu” into the Events post-type menu and only show it to admins?

It’s a little bit irritating having to scrolls down to the Settings menu.

[Stephen Harris]

It’s a little bit irritating having to scrolls down to the Settings menu.

This to me suggests that a setting(s) may have been miss-placed as part of the settings rather than the page itself should be moved. Which settings are requiring regular updating, they maybe in the wrong place? I can think of at least two instances of this myself (and they need to be addressed – and will be)

• Import / Export
• Booking forms (probably)

Certainly the import/export stuff is in the wrong place, it’s not really a setting. It could go under Events, but in my opinion it would make most sense for it to be placed next to WordPress’ other import / export tools: namely the Tools section.

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(Here’s my reasoning for having the settings in the settings section:) settings pages are typically visited only once or twice when the site is set up – rarely do they require regular visits or contain options which change in the day-to-day managing of events. Rather than having the settings link cluttering up the Events section – once set up, they can be largely ignored. Less clutter makes it easier to focus on every-day tasks.

I realise a lot of plug-ins add settings underneath a plug-in added menu, but I think this is wrong (I wrote an article about WordPress UI here and touched on this). In short a better UI is to be task focussed rather than plug-in focussed: the overall goal is to have the plug-in bleed so much into WordPress’ admin that it’s as if WordPress included it by default.

With regards to adding an setting, I think adding an option to move the settings page is probably an option too far – and isn’t as easily done when you consider backwards compatibility, and dependency of extensions.

[Dave Navarro]

Not a problem, I added a filter to put it there myself. 😉

[Stephen Harris]

Ah, ok. Yes, putting a shortcut link under “Events” isn’t too difficult.

(For others:)

function my_event_settings_shortcut() {
    add_submenu_page(
        'edit.php?post_type=event',
        'Settings',
        'Settings',
        'manage_options',
        'options-general.php?page=event-settings'
    );
}
add_action('admin_menu', 'my_event_settings_shortcut');

added to either a functionality plug-in or theme’s functions.php (preferably the former)

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