Admin Toolbar Menus vs Navception

Add 3 new menu locations to the WordPress toolbar so you can quickly and easily create your own custom toolbar menus using the built in WordPress menus page. Supports multi level and works seamlessly with the existing toolbar menus. Locations First menu location is under the ‘Site Name’ menu dropdown on the left side. Second menu location is along the main toolbar. Third menu location is under the ‘Howdy / My Account’ dropdown. Super simple to use, just like building any other menu in WordPress using the menus page. No settings, just ‘plug and play’. Features Simple toolbar menu customization using WordPress menus Seamless integration with the existing WordPress menus No Settings, just ‘plug and play’ Feedback I am open to your suggestions and feedback – Thanks for checking out this plugin! Hit me up via the support forums or my website Follow @benbodhi on Twitter Translations English – default, always included Your translation? – Just send it in Note: This plugin is localized/translateable by default. This is very important for all users worldwide. So please contribute your language to the plugin to make it even more useful. For translating I recommend the awesome “Codestyling Localization” plugin and for validating the “Poedit Editor”. Additional Info Idea Behind / Philosophy: This is something that I have found super useful when it comes to customizing WordPress. I have been writing custom menus for quite a while and realised there is not much out there like this. No more code snippets, copy pasting or including files, simply install the plugin and away you go using the built in WordPress menus. A simple but powerful plugin to give you more customization powers over the admin toolbar. Future Features More power over menu locations with options to pick which locations you want to use and the menu order in relation to existing WordPress menus. Options page to remove other standard toolbar menu items. (you can uncomment these in the code now if you’re keen 😉 Ability to change the WordPress “Howdy” welcome message

About Navception Navception: The act of embedding a pre-constructed WordPress Menu inside another WordPress Menu. Navception adds a simple feature to WordPress Menus, but opens the door to powerful possibilities. New to your WordPress Nav Menu editor, is a box that lets you add menus into your menus! This allows you to create one menu to include as a submenu once in another menu, multiple times in another menu, or multiple times in multiple menus. What makes this so powerful is that if you decide that your submenu needs another link added to it, you only have to update it in one place! Navception, a simple concept with powerful results! Let’s look at a couple of scenarios: Without Navception If you have a submenu you need repeated across your site: First you have to add all the links everywhere you want the submenu, then to update the submenu you have to modify the links everywhere the submenu exists. If you have too many menu items in your menu: You have to pick and choose which menu items are removed to make room for new ones. With Navception If you have a submenu you need repeated across your site: First you create the submenu as a stand-alone WordPress menu and embed it where you need it once, then to update the submenu you only need to modify the links in the stand-alone menu. If you have too many menu items in your menu: You make some of the submenus separate WordPress menus and embed those new menus into the original menu to make room for more menu items. Navception’s Inception Navception became a thought when working on a client’s main menu. This menu was a typical 3 level menu, with two submenus that were repeated 4 times each. Those submenus were a hassle to add and a pain to maintain. When I realized that I wanted a plugin that allowed me to create a submenu once and include it as a menu item in a separate menu, I was surprised to find that no such plugin existed. Navception became a necessity when working on that same client’s main menu. This menu became so large that I received the following warning: “You are approaching the post variable limit imposed by your server configuration. Exceeding this limit may automatically delete menu items when you save.” It turns out that every Nav Menu Item in the WordPress Admin area has roughly 8 inputs associated with it. One of the aforementioned submenus contained 7 menu items, or 56 inputs. Using Navception, I created that submenu as a stand-alone WordPress menu, then included it as 1 menu item in the client’s main menu. This reduced the inputs generated by that submenu from 56 to 8. Since that submenu was included 4 times, I not only avoided the Post Variable Limit, but I also made the menu easier to manage. Dangers of Navception When embedding menus in other menus, you must take care not to include the same menu in itself. When done directly or indirectly, this can cause your website to go into an infinite loop (aka Limbo) when attempting to display the menu. I added some safeguards to keep you from accidentally causing this to happen, though I’m only 90% confident that I covered all scenarios. If you ever put your website into Limbo, you only need to remove the menu you embedded, then please make a post in the support forum telling me what you did so I can cover that case as well.