Add spacing in the menu between 59 and 60 to allow menu items to appear above appearance

[Frumph]

I would like to place a menu item above appearance however the spacer is directly above the Appearance menu item at 60, the spacer is at 59, just a simple request to appropriate more space that is empty, 55 for the spacer and keep the appearance 60 giving 56,57,58,59 for add_menu items above 60

[nacin]

We can't do this while remaining backwards compatible.

[Frumph]

Hrm, then an action location to add another menu spacer in a particular location would be a nice ability, as a seperator to denote a sep. section, i'll see if I can figure out how to do that without losing continuity of the current sections, like an option to add_menu item where it displays partitioning lines.

[jane]

Changing component, as Menus component refers to the custom menu feature.

[iseulde]

You could overwrite the separator at 59 and add a separator higher up. Maybe an easy way to add separators would be nice to have in core.
Here's one solution for now: ​http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/2666/add-a-separator-to-the-admin-menu.

[nacin]

(Sorry, doing some cleaning. This is the admin menu, not the toolbar, so best place for this is "Plugins", where the admin menu API lives.)

[cfoellmann]

You can add menu item above 'Appearances' easily. Not fix or "cowboy-coding" like in the stackexchange topic needed:

add_menu_page(
	$page_title,
	$menu_title,
	$capability,
	$menu_slug,
	$function,
	$icon_url,
	'59.5' // this will move the item below the 'separator2' and 'appearance' menu item
);