When Activated, Plugin Adds Extra Submenu Items For Elementor

  • blackeye0013

    (@blackeye0013)


    2 months, 2 weeks ago

    Hi, I came accross a strange problem lately. When Elementor and your plugin are both activated (and some changes to the menu are made), Elementor shows extra submenu items, namely “Connect” and “Notes Proxy” (the later only when Elementor PRO is activated).

    As I recall it correctly, those items used to be there before, but shouldn’t be there now. When your plugin is deactivated again, these items are gone again.

    I also tried to check this issue on fresh install, to see wheather these items are “forgotten” there from before (when they used to be in the menu), but the problem occured even on the fresh install.

    Please note, that you have to make a change (or at least click the Save button) to make the issue appear.

    Could you please look into it? No big deal, but for a long time I was ranting and blaming Elementor, why there are those extra items, until I realized they are there only on sites where I have your plugin installed (which is almost every site I have).

    Thanks

    • This topic was modified 2 months, 2 weeks ago by blackeye0013.
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  • Plugin Author Janis Elsts

    (@whiteshadow)

    2 months, 2 weeks ago

    This looks another case of a plugin adding some menu items and then removing them in a way that’s not fully compatible with Admin Menu Editor. It has to do with the technical details of how AME works, but the simple version is that AME takes a snapshot of the menu data at a certain point during a page load and any changes that other plugins make after that point don’t affect the final menu. This is not a bug in either plugin; it’s just a side-effect of certain technical constraints.

    I’ll add “Elementor -> Connect” to the internal “these should always be hidden” list in AME. This item should stop showing up after the next plugin update.

    Unfortunately, I don’t have the Pro version of Elementor, so I can’t do the same for “Notes Proxy”. Could you open that menu item, copy the item URL from the address bar, and paste it here? You can redact your site/domain name; I mainly need the part starting with /wp-admin/ to identify the menu item.

    Thread Starter blackeye0013

    (@blackeye0013)

    2 months, 2 weeks ago

    Hello, thanks for the quick reply, good to hear that the fix is on the way.

    The URL for the “Notes Proxy” is …/wp-admin/elementor-pro-notes-proxy (BTW the page does not exist).

    Cheers

    Plugin Author Janis Elsts

    (@whiteshadow)

    2 months, 2 weeks ago

    Thank you, I have added that one to the list, too. It should also be hidden in the next version of the plugin.

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