Snapshot synced v3.6.1 working state as baseline

Machine-sync snapshot: the working tree carried the full 3.0.0-3.6.1 arc
(licensing/FileManager/DatabaseExplorer removal, all new replacement screens
and REST controllers) that had not been committed on this machine. Captured
here as a safety baseline before starting the Adminify-parity revamp.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>

admin/src/MenuCreator/MenuCreator.php

@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ class MenuCreator
     }
 
     $table = self::table_name();
+    // phpcs:ignore WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery, WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching, WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.InterpolatedNotPrepared -- {$table} is an internal, hardcoded {$wpdb->prefix}-based table name, not user input; no user-supplied values in this query. Runs on every admin page load to build the sidebar menu, so a per-request cache wouldn't help; a persistent cache would need its own invalidation on every config save, more complexity than this read is worth.
     $configs = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT roles, items FROM {$table} WHERE status = 'published'");
     if (!$configs) {
       return;