Wordpress Plugin : Admin Drop Down Menu « planetOzh

One of the first things I wanted to improve in the admin area of my WordPress blog, back in the 1.5 days, was the header menu. I wanted to be able to reach any admin page in one click, instead of first clicking on the first level link (”Manage” for example) and then only on a submenu link (”Comments“) So came a very neat plugin : the WordPress Admin Drop Down Menu

When WordPress 2.7 and its new and optimized user interface came, I thought there was still room for improvements: a horizontal menu gave the admin area more of a “desktop application” feel, and I think it’s superior to a vertical menu. So I updated the WordPress Admin Drop Down Menu.

Download

Get the plugin :

Activate and enjoy. Another friendly install & forget piece of PHP.

Features

• Customizable color scheme with a neat color picker
• Normal mode for regular users, compact mode for real estate maniacs, minimal mode for those who never have enough
• Optional cute icons from FamFamFam
• Enhanced compatibility with handheld devices
• Joy and happiness for every day

Javascript is involved for advanced features and to make stuff compatible with MSIE6, but on any decent browser everything works even with Javascript disabled.

Super neat color picking.

Any color you’ll love.

Normal or compact display.

Browser compatibility

The plugin has been developed on Firefox 3, Chrome and MSIE7. It should do fine with MSIE6 and Safari too.

There are glitches with Firefox 2 and Camino which both use a deprecated rendering engine. There are also glitches with Opera. I won’t fix these, but if anyone wants to submit a CSS patch to resolve one of these issue, you’re welcome :)

Developer friendly

The plugin comes with a wickedly cool API that will allow other plugin developers to interact with it, like adding your own custom icon for your plugin. Read the API for Coders page for examples and documentation. Also, all elements the plugin produces get custom CSS classes and id’s to allow easy styling or selecting.

Translations

The plugin is ready for interglobanalization and there is a .pot template file included so polyglots can even make their own translation and sent the .mo and .po files to me that I’ll include in the package.

The plugin comes with the following translations, in no particular order:

• Turkish, thanks to Baris Ünver
• Korean, thanks to Jong-In Kim
• Spanish, thanks to Karin Sequen
• Italian, thanks to Gianni Diurno
• Deutsch, thanks to Frasier Crane
• Russian, thanks to Fat Cow
• Brazilian Portuguese, thanks to Renato Tavares
• Greek, thanks to Friedlich
• Belorussian, thanks to ilyuha
• Hebrew, thanks to Amiad Bareli
• Romanian, thanks to Octav
• Ukrainian , thanks to wpp.pp.ua and Jurko Chervony
• Traditional Chinese, thanks to Paogray

And maybe more since I might totally forget to update this list :)

Older Versions

Version 3.3.11 for WordPress 2.7 to 2.9.3 is available and unsupported:

Version 2.3.4.1 for WordPress 2.5 to 2.6.5 is available and unsupported:

Version 1.3.1 for WordPress 1.5 to 2.3.3 is still available too, after all these years:

Feedback, Bug report, Feature request

Sure. Feed me back. Like it? Blog about it. Love it? Click on the download link, see the Paypal button appear, and give it some clicks!

If you’re reporting bugs, you’re welcome, but please provide a screenshot and informations about your browser & your OS. I’m not supporting deprecated blogs or plugins or browsers, and I can’t respond to incomplete bug reports.

If you’re suggesting a feature, you’re welcome too, but I won’t add an admin menu on the public side of the blog, on top of pages. There are other plugins for this, I totally endorse, recommend and suggest Viper’s Admin Bar.

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