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1. Sabinou
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Hello,

   As time passes, managing various blogs with various plugins and customizations, I find myself wasting more and more time trying to find precise pages inside the wordpress administration pages.

   And it came to me : wordpress needs an admin-side search feature !

   We type one or several keywords, and we're shown a refined list of the various admin-side pages containing the keyword (or all of the keywords, not OR but AND).

   A bit like the pleasant feel brought by MS-Windows adding at last the search feature to the "Start" menu.
   Or else, if it has to require to hit a "search" key and browse a list of results, so be it. But there aren't so many items in a wordpress admin that it can't be listed in advance, I hope.

   What do you think of it ? Wouldn't it make wordpress even more cozy to use ? I sure think so :)

   Well, that was just my two cents, contributing with a good idea, at least in my opinion !
   Best regards everyone, have a good summer !

2. Sabinou
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Maybe I should have added this precision, that the menus in the Settings section are not sorted alphabetically and it's extremely confusing.

   But rather than a quick fix (everything save the default menus being sorted alphabetically), I think my idea's better :)

3. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 9 months ago #

   This plugin may be what you want: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/admin-menu-tree-page-view/

4. Sabinou
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Thanks Ipstenu, it's good to know of the existence of that plugin, however it's something different from what I envision.

   I may be mistaken, but this plugin only concerns the pages, as opposed to posts, right ?

   What I'm suggesting is to cover EVERYTHING inside the administration panel.

   - The Posts/Media/Links/Pages/Appearances/Plugins sections are mostly always the same, I never saw new items added to them.
   - However, the Users and Tools section has frequently new items added because of users management plugins or security.
   - And when it comes to the Settings section, it's chaos, dozens of things can be added to it in random order.
   - And then there are the optional additional menus added below, most of them with subparts.

   See all that mess ? If you manage different blogs with different plugins, each plugin may add its entry into a random location. In the end it's mentally tiring to remember where a menu is located, or to have to search for it every time.
   A quick search feature would fix it, and WordPress would be once again making the life of the webmasters more agreable :)

   I may have chosen the wrong words previously, if so I apologize. But I hope my suggestion is clearer now :)

5. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Ah, no, I grabbed the wrong plugin :) Though that would be what I'd use to start forking into what you want. There isn't one that, 100% does what you need alas :/

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/admin-menu-editor/

   (from http://www.wptavern.com/where-are-the-settings-for-that-plugin )

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