In a wordpress network of sites, site-owners/admins aren't able to update plugins. Yet if a Gravity Forms update is available, an icon appears beside their 'Forms' menu item.
They think it's a new form submission because the icons are the same - when really it's an update they can't do anything about.
This is misleading and confusing - it would be great if there was a hook that could be put into create_menu() for disabling $update_icon via a theme/plugins functions.php
This is a good suggestion. I needed to do something similar in the past so I hid the icon with CSS. There are two steps to this:
1. create an admin stylesheet with the "display:hidden" for the elements you don't want to see
2. load the stylesheet in the wp-admin
Here is the stylesheet I used:
[css]
/* hide the update available icon for the forms menu */
li#toplevel_page_gf_edit_forms span.update-plugins {
display:none;
}I saved that to a file called wp-admin.css in my child theme's directory. Then I load the stylesheet in the admin via functions.php:
[php]
function load_custom_wp_admin_style() {
wp_register_style( 'custom_wp_admin_css', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/wp-admin.css', false, get_bloginfo('version') );
wp_enqueue_style ( 'custom_wp_admin_css' );
}
add_action( 'admin_enqueue_scripts', 'load_custom_wp_admin_style' );Your idea is a good one and we'll leave it open under feature requests. Thank you.