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 :
ozh-admin-drop-down-menu.zip
Extract and upload to your blog, preserving directory structure.
Note: download counter here and stats on wordpress.org may differ and reflect the number of downloads before this plugin was hosted on the plugin directory
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 Joan Wang
- Dutch, thanks to Cees van den Heuvel
- Slovak, thanks to Branco from WebHostingGeeks.com
And maybe more since I might totally forget to update this list :)
Older Versions
All my plugins are designed to run on the latest WordPress version available. Upgrade WordPress whenever a new version is out, or be sorry when your site gets compromised.
If for some unintelligent reason you need to get an older version of this plugin, it might be available, yet totally unsupported or recommended. Check here: Other versions.
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. If you're looking after having this menu fixed on top of page, check this companion plugin that works as a plugin to this plugin: Admin Menus Fixed.
Shorter URL
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commented, on 09/Dec/12 at 4:12 pm # :
Lane Lester » There's an option for this in the plugin settings
thought, on 09/Dec/12 at 7:07 pm # :
Ozh, is this what you mean:
Top Links Make top links clickable
Uncheck this option to improve compatibility with browsers that cannot handle the "hover" event (ie most handheld devices)
When I uncheck it, it doesn't seem that I can do anything with the iPad, because touching a main menu item does nothing. With it checked, the main menu item is executed, but there's no way to get to a submenu item.
replied, on 12/Dec/12 at 6:44 pm # :
Absolutely love this plugin and have used it for a long time. Thanks.
Just updated to WP3.5 and the plugin broke. The images are not showing up properly. Checked in on many hosts and many browsers. All the same problem.
Any thoughts?
said, on 13/Dec/12 at 2:50 pm # :
Lance » No problem for me with WP 3.5 and plugin 3.6.4
wrote, on 13/Dec/12 at 4:39 pm # :
Ozh – Was using 3.6.3. Just saw the update notification this morning. 3.6.4 did the trick. Thanks for a great plugin and great support.
wrote, on 16/Dec/12 at 8:01 am # :
Thanks for a great plugin.
On WP 3.5 multi-site with Admin Drop Down menu ver 3.6.4 activated on the main site, the images on the network admin are broken links for the menu items Dashboard through Updates. On site admin, all images display fine.
In the source, I see:
If I recall correctly, ver 3.6.3 worked perfectly in this regard, even under WP 3.5.
Could it be my setup?
wrote, on 20/Dec/12 at 4:10 am # :
WP v3.5, Admin Drop Down Menu v3.6.4
I'm getting the same no icons on Network Admin as well. Network activated. Subsites work fine, including the Primary Blog Admin, where I change the menu preferences that apply to the Network Admin screens.
replied, on 23/Dec/12 at 5:33 pm # :
Hey Ozh. Thanks for the plugin.
Can you make the >> link to the "Visit Site" front-end open in a new window? Minor inconvenience having to leave the dashboard and I always disliked it in the vanilla WP menu.
No biggie but great if you can add a _blank or similar element.
commented, on 24/Dec/12 at 1:28 pm # :
Vin Carrillo » I'll never do that. Forcing targets on link is evil, since you can't escape it, while having no target lets the user decide (regular click for same tab or right click / middle click / whatever for another tab)
wrote, on 24/Dec/12 at 6:06 pm # :
I understand your reasoning about the target thing, although I would also prefer it.
My wish is that the "disable admin bar" option would disable it on the actual web pages, too. I hate that "feature," and the P3 plugin tester says the admin bar disabler plugin adds a lot of time to page load.
commented, on 26/Dec/12 at 3:55 am # :
The Toolbar visibility on the frontend (actual web pages) has always been selectable:
Your Profile > Toolbar check box > Show Toolbar when viewing site
Duplicating that function would be unnecessary.
commented, on 26/Dec/12 at 4:23 am # :
Wow! I'm evidently not the expert I like to think I am. Thanks!
replied, on 26/Dec/12 at 12:58 pm # :
You're welcome.
Back when the Admin Bar first came out, there were two checkboxes there; one for frontend, one for backend. When they renamed the Admin Bar to Toolbar and made it persistent, they removed the backend checkbox; because they want everyone to use it and certain plugins add menus to it. Ozh' setting restores the removal functionality but, with the Toolbar disabled, any menus that plugins add to it won't be available.
commented, on 08/Feb/13 at 12:49 pm # :
Nice plugin, but there is a bug if screen size is reduced, @media css properties for max 900px screens are then activated and that causes blank space to the left to appear and whole menu shifts to the right…just try resizing the window and you will see what I mean (or just login using iphone…)
commented, on 16/Feb/13 at 7:13 pm # :
Thanks for a great menu!
said, on 06/Mar/13 at 5:05 pm # :
Like this plug-in but have big issue just discovered. When the Ozh plugin is enabled, the "All in one calendar" htt://time.ly does not properly display its events/Calendar feeds" page. Ozh makes the calendar plugin appear to be broken. Hope there is a fix.
Thanks,
Roy
replied, on 15/May/13 at 12:21 pm # :
Great plugin. Thank you.
Same issue as Nesako. Wonder if you could maybe give some possibilities on reverting to wordpress default styling whenever the screen size gets to a certain width. That will put the small icons back to the left of the page and allow for the full responsiveness of the WP Admin area. As it is, the responsiveness is lacking. Looking into the issue myself right now, but writing this just in case you have a quick answer before I start editing anything.
commented, on 16/May/13 at 12:51 pm # :
sorry, wrong code…..
what i meant is that img src is broken.
page source: img class="wp-menu-image" src="div"
replied, on 18/Jun/13 at 7:50 pm # :
Hi
Love this plugin. Such a better use of precious desktop and window area. I have a problem though and the link below is a post of mine from yesterday to the Jetpack forum explaining what might be a conflict between Ozh and Jetpack which creates a 404 error for every page change, edit, publish click, save draft click, etc. etc. I perform within my website.
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/jetpack-generating-404-errors?replies=3#post-4321163
Really would like to keep Ozh, but with the 404 errors I am afraid the NSA is going to pick it up an misconstrue it as some sort of terrorist attack or a threat to national security and shut my website down. :) Anyone familiar with this? Any fixes available for a complete and utter noob?
wrote, on 18/Jun/13 at 9:05 pm # :
Randall » I'm running both on all my sites, no problem detected
thought, on 18/Jun/13 at 9:15 pm # :
Running both on mine and no issues like you describe, Randall.
It's still not breaking long lists though – it ceased to do that when I updated WP to v3.3 way back in 2011 :-(