Comments on: Use Action Links to direct users straight to your WordPress plugin’s admin page

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 13:02:55 +0000

I can see how this would be very useful and definately worth implementing.

By: Pressography

Pressography — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:59:48 +0000

WordPress Plugin Template…

I know that when I started coding WordPress Plugins, I had a rough time getting started. So, after spending a lot of time building them from the ground up, I eventually developed a plugin template that I start all of my plugins from.
So, after building…

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:20:13 +0000

Actually, WordPress 2.7 includes a significant improvement — I expect to do a writeup soon.

In short, we will have new hooks specific to each plugin’s row on the Plugins page, which means your plugin no longer needs to run down the list asking “Are you my mommy?”

The new hook is plugin_action_links_<__FILE__>, which is only called for the plugin that matches __FILE__.

[Update: Heh. Responding to commenter who was responding to me. Infinite Loop! Run!]

By: Daiv

Daiv — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:53:04 +0000

This is a great tip, thanx alot.
If 2.7 will have a different method of doing this, would be great to know what that is, and how to set up for backwards compatible.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:47:13 +0000

There’s a better method coming in WordPress 2.7 — I’ll do a writeup soon.

Basically, each plugin page row will have a plugin_action_links_{plugin}, which means you won’t have to call the hook for every plugin row as you do in the method described above.

By: Mark Hannant

Mark Hannant — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:22:06 +0000

It amazing that something so glaringly useful hasn’t been done before.

When plugins build up (and they build up fast thanks to Joost!) having access to all plugin settings from one page will help massively.

By: Joost de Valk

Joost de Valk — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:11:00 +0000

Love it! Thx for dropping this link on wp-hackers, I’ll be sure to talk about it in my next WordPress newsletter!

By: Andrew Peacock

Andrew Peacock — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:40:21 +0000

Great post. Thanks for sharing and teaching,
Andy