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One thing I wanted to improve in the Admin area of my Wordpress blog was the header menu. I want 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 here is a very neat plugin : the Worpdress Admin Drop Down Menu

Admin Drop Down Menu

Current Version: 2.1 for WordPress 2.5+ only. Scroll down for older versions.

Show me

Want to try before you buy ? Well, sure (except for the “buy” part) I made up this demo page especially for you.

It should work fine under Firefox 2.x, Opera 9.something and MSIE 6 on Windows. At least it does on my computer.

Give me

Get the plugin :

Download the plugin :
ozh-admin-drop-down-menu.zip
Extract and upload to your blog, preserving directory structure if any.
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

The plugin concept itself is rather simple :

  • Hide the various admin menus that are splattered all over the place in WordPress 2.5 (wasted space!)
  • Insert a new menu on the top dark grey bar, which is unused (wasted space!) otherwise
  • Remove a few useless links (wasted space!) on the upper right corner

Javascript is involved in order to hide useless links and to make stuff compatible with MSIE6. On modern browsers, everything works even with Javascript disabled.

As I’ve said, I’ve tested it to make it work with MSIE6 and Firefox. If you use it with another cosmetic plugin for the admin interface, it could go moo. If you use it with another browser it could go moo. If you modify the CSS part of the plugin to suit your colors and mood, it could go moo. I should rank pretty well on Google for “it could go moo” with such a disclaimer.

Options

By popular demand, the plugin comes with an editable option. Located at the beginning of the script, you’ll find:
$wp_ozh_adminmenu['display_submenu'] (boolean) will display, if set to true, the original Vanilla submenu. Defaults to false.

$wp_ozh_adminmenu['too_many_plugins'] (integer) define the maximum number of entries in a vertical dropdow menu before it switches to horizontal mode. Tweak this if you have so many entries that it drops longer than your screen height. (note: this option is deactivated when used along with Fluency)

Bonus

Thanks to Dean J. Robinson and his extraordinary CSS skills, Worpdress Admin Drop Down Menu is compatible with the uberclassy Fluency, a very beautiful plugin that redefines the whole admin area.

Requirements

This plugin is intented for serious Power Users only, and as such has very strict requirements :

  • A Wordpress blog (designed for 2.5, won’t work on 2.3.3 or older)
  • Enough lazyness to feel that sparing a click or two each day is worth it
  • A comfortable chair and a fat internet connection

(Although the last point is not directly required to run my plugin, I’ve found that it can greatly enhance your internet experience)

Release History

  • 30 dec 2005: 1.0, initial release
  • 30 dec 2005: 1.1, minor code cleaning and Tiger Admin compatibility ! (screenshot)
  • 9 jan 2006: 1.2, fixing some glitches with multi page plugins (Akismet for one) and minor CSS improvements (horizontal scrollbar in Firefox)
  • 15 feb 2006 : 1.3, fixing a problem with plugins within subfolders on Windows platforms, hence with a backslash in path (akismet\akismet.php for one)
  • Some day I forgot: 1.3.1, minor CSS tweaks
  • 10 mar 2008 : 2.0, complete rewrite for WordPress 2.5 only
  • 3 avr: 2.0.2, fixing a few stuff including incorrect submenu links below plugin toplevel menus

Older Version

Version 1.3.1 is designed for WordPress 1.5 to 2.3.3 and is still available:

The awesome demo of this older version is still available, of course.

Feedback

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!

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  1. 1
    AnushaRaji » Blog Archive » ... United States »
    pingback on 20/Jan/06 at 12:26 am # :

    [...] Wordpress Plugin : Admin Drop Down Menu « planetOzh Wordpress Plugin : Admin Drop Down Menu (tags: lazysheep) [...]

  2. 2
    Pixelshooter » Nice plugin United States »
    pingback on 24/Jan/06 at 12:55 pm # :

    [...] I found this nice lazy-friendly plugin here. Credits to Ozh. [...]

  3. 3
    RCOnline » WordPress Plugin: Admin... Germany »
    pingback on 29/Jan/06 at 12:59 am # :

    [...] Wo kann man das Plugin herunterladen? Wie immer auf der Seite des Entwicklers: Admin DropDown Menu –> [...]

  4. 4
    beto Brazil »
    commented, on 30/Jan/06 at 10:09 pm # :

    Started using this plugin since jan/06. Just after enabling it, my wordpress 2 won´t enable or disable any other plugins. Is this happening to anyone else? Thanks.

  5. 5
    Testing Old WP Plugins I Like at CoffeeB... United States »
    pingback on 01/Feb/06 at 6:57 am # :

    [...] wpLicense 0.5.2: This plugin works fine but it breaks Admin Drop Down Menu. [...]

  6. 6
    Myjutsu France »
    commented, on 03/Feb/06 at 8:43 pm # :

    J’ai un petit problème avec ce plugin depuis que j’utilise la version 2.0.1 de wordpress. Quand je suis sur la page Dashboard une partie du sous-menu option apparait alors qu’il ne devrait pas avoir de sous-menu justement.
    Je précise que ce problème n’existait pas sous wordpress 2.0
    Ca vient de moi ou le pb est général?

  7. 7
    Ozh France »
    thought, on 03/Feb/06 at 10:58 pm # :

    Myjutsu » 2.0.1 ici et pas de probleme… (à moins que je n’ai pas compris ton probleme: oui un sous-menu vide apparait quand tu es sur la page Dashboard ou bien Import, c’est voulu)

  8. 8
    Myjutsu France »
    commented, on 04/Feb/06 at 12:31 am # :

    Qu’un sous menu apparaisse d’accord mais mon problème n’est qu’il n’est pas vide justement. Je viens de tester sous IE est effectivement ca marche. Je continue donc de chercher d’ou ca vient.

  9. 9
    Myjutsu France »
    commented, on 04/Feb/06 at 12:57 am # :

    Problème résolu.
    En effet la liste du sous-menu se trouve à “l’extérieur” de l’écran quand la souris n’est pas sur le menu (position absolute -900px). J’utilise un plugin firefox qui zoome le texte et ainsi il faisait dépasser une partie du sous menu qui n’etait pas censé etre visible.
    Une petite modification de CSS plus tard le pb était résolu.
    Désolé de t’avoir déranger.

  10. 10
    WP Plugin i use at Fenbox United States »
    pingback on 04/Feb/06 at 4:14 am # :

    [...] Akismet Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web serivce to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use this service. You can review the spam it catches under “Manage” and it automatically deletes old spam after 15 days. Extended Live Archives Implements a dynamic archive. CoolPlayer this plugin allow you add any type of media into your blog. Admin Drop Down Menu Replaces admin menu and submenu with a 2 level horizontal CSS dropdown menu bar. Saves lots of clicks ! WordPress Database Backup On-demand backup of your WordPress database. –> [...]

  11. 11
    jazzle Great Britain (UK) »
    said, on 06/Feb/06 at 12:43 pm # :

    “cold go moo”
    yup, first place:
    http://www.google.co.uk/search?lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=it%20could%20go%20moo

    :D

  12. 12
    Michael B United States »
    commented, on 08/Feb/06 at 12:37 am # :

    On the one site I installed this on, it doesn’t like the mulitple menus of Spam Karma. Can barely see the other tabs. I was using 1.2 of the plugin as well.

  13. 13
    Flyweb!’s [B]log » Wordpress... Netherlands »
    pingback on 09/Feb/06 at 2:25 pm # :

    [...] Admin Drop Down Menu Brings us a very compatible plugin to be used in WP-admin. It is realy nothing more then some advanced CSS rendering which does a very good job in accessability for the WP-admin section. RSI patients will love this one for it reduces the number of clicks considerably. [...]

  14. 14
    CLiFF::BLOG » Wordpress Plugin: Ad... Hong Kong »
    pingback on 09/Feb/06 at 4:19 pm # :

    [...] 這個叫Admin Drop Down Menu的WP Plugin真好!把WP後台的Admin Menu變成下拉式目錄設計。一按即到各功能分頁。 [...]

  15. 15
    Vakão WebLog » Must Have plugin... Brazil »
    pingback on 12/Feb/06 at 7:02 pm # :

    [...] The Admin Drop Down Menu plugin makes the header menu much easier to use by providing a two-level drop-down menu bar. Instead of having to navigate to the top-level menu and then to the sub-menu, you can simply move your mouse over the top-level menu and then to the sub-menu function you wish to use. [...]

  16. 16
    Andrew Hearn’s Blog » Blog A... Great Britain (UK) »
    pingback on 13/Feb/06 at 9:33 pm # :

    [...] New Plugin: Admin CSS menu, from: http://planetozh.com/blog//my-projects/wordpress-admin-menu-drop-down-css/ [...]

  17. 17
    Dan Atkinson Great Britain (UK) »
    said, on 14/Feb/06 at 7:50 pm # :

    Hi there! An excellent plugin! But, for some reason, I have a problem with Akismet using 1.2.

    When I click on Akismet using the dropdowns, I receive the following error:
    Cannot load akismetakismet.php.

    I have to go to Manage and then to Akismet instead. Has anyone else had this problem?

  18. 18
    Dan Atkinson Great Britain (UK) »
    wrote, on 14/Feb/06 at 8:53 pm # :

    It seems that this happens with ALL plugins and not just that one. The plugin kinda really screwed up every other plugin for me and I’ve now had to de-activate it.

    Here is a list of the plugins I have:

    Adsense-Deluxe 0.7
    Akismet 1.14
    Brian’s Latest Comments 1.5.9
    BDP Referral Tracker 1.0.2
    Favatars 2
    LiveCalendar 1.8.5
    Post Star Rating 0.1.1
    PJW WP Cache Inspect 0.5
    Wordpress Version Check 1.00
    Related Posts 2.0
    Google Sitemaps 3.0
    Dunstan’s Time Since 1.1
    Admin Drop Down Menu 1.2

  19. 19
    Jen Leheny Australia »
    replied, on 15/Feb/06 at 5:00 am # :

    Works great for me! thanks for saving me a few clicks and a few seconds! :)

  20. 20
    Ozh France »
    thought, on 15/Feb/06 at 12:13 pm # :

    Jen » thanks for feedback !

    Dan » I had some hard times but I think I’ve found what the problem is. This is a Windows issue, and you’re hosted on a Windows server, right ? Download today’s upgrade, version 1.3, and it should work fine. Tell me.

  21. 21
    Dan Atkinson Great Britain (UK) »
    commented, on 15/Feb/06 at 5:44 pm # :

    Ozh, Yes I am hosted on a Windows server!

    The new plugin works well now!

    Thanks very much!

  22. 22
    digital bites » Blog Archive &raqu... Germany »
    pingback on 20/Feb/06 at 9:44 pm # :

    [...] Other interesting plugin no WordPress user should do without is Admin Drop Down Menu. [...]

  23. 23
    Thomas Holmes France »
    commented, on 21/Feb/06 at 1:59 am # :

    hi ozh,

    i’ve installed the plugin and its not working! :(

    i am working with wp2.0 on unix with the tiger admin plugin.

    was looking forward to more swift movement around my blog - yours hopefully!

    thomas

  24. 24
    Ozh France »
    thought, on 21/Feb/06 at 2:19 pm # :

    Ho, great. “It’s not working”. That really helps.
    My answer is : “It *is* working”.

  25. 25
    Bart Netherlands »
    wrote, on 25/Feb/06 at 10:46 pm # :

    Hi Ozh,

    I have problems with your script in combination with Tiger Style Administration in Firefox on OSX. In Camino and Safari on OSX it works ok. I confirmed that the Javascript works correctly so I’m thinking that there is some weird CSS issue here.. Any ideas?

    Cheers, and thanks for a cool plugin,

    Bart

  26. 26
    探花 @ Tinn Walk . » Blog ... United States »
    pingback on 27/Feb/06 at 8:13 am # :

    [...] 06.2.27 Admin Drop Down Menu 后台插件 减少你的点击量 必备啊~~ [...]

  27. 27
    今天天气好圆å... Singapore »
    pingback on 27/Feb/06 at 11:15 am # :

    [...] Admin Drop Down Menu 后台插件,优化后台显示的。 [...]

  28. 28
    Thomas Holmes France »
    said, on 02/Mar/06 at 1:46 am # :

    > Ho, great. “It’s not working”. That really helps.
    > My answer is : “It *is* working”.

    Well your response doesn’t really help either does it.

    Maybe it *is* working but it isn’t working as it should be - there are no dynamic menus appearing.

    I have noticed that it does work in Safari but its not working in my browser of choice - 1.5.0.1 firefox for mac. Sounds like Bart is having the same problem.

  29. 29
    LiCheong.com » Blog Archive »... Hong Kong »
    pingback on 02/Mar/06 at 7:13 am # :

    [...] Admin Drop Down Menu 讓你在 WP-Admin 裏面更快捷選擇你想要的工具。 [...]

  30. 30
    Ozh France »
    said, on 02/Mar/06 at 9:24 am # :

    Thomas » if you expect answers that help, clearly state problems. “It’s not working” is a totally useless comment.

    As for your now clearly stated problem with Mac FF 1.5.0.1, well, maybe I can look at this when I have a Mac.

  31. 31
    Thomas Holmes France »
    thought, on 02/Mar/06 at 2:09 pm # :

    Ok, thanks ozh. I appreciate “it’s not working” is pretty useless - its just knowing what information that is required at any time. I didn’t realise it was potentially a browser-related problem until I saw it working in Safari.

  32. 32
    2optimize » Blog Archive » M... Netherlands »
    pingback on 02/Mar/06 at 10:44 pm # :

    [...] Admin Drop Down Menu - Submenu always visible [...]

  33. 33
    pils Great Britain (UK) »
    replied, on 03/Mar/06 at 4:09 pm # :

    nothing really, just wanted to say that the javascript:doh() on the ‘demo’ page made me laugh…v.funny.

    :]

  34. 34
    BirDesign Japan »
    trackback on 03/Mar/06 at 5:02 pm # :

    WordPress…

  35. 35
    Stupid Wordpress Tricks » Blog Arc... Canada »
    pingback on 05/Mar/06 at 9:11 pm # :

    [...] I installed the admin drop down menu plugin, and it worked like a charm!  When you’re administering a Wordpress blog, it saves many keystrokes, since it is only a two level menu.  Here are the installation steps: [...]

  36. 36
    doopoo » Wordpress plugins in use United States »
    pingback on 07/Mar/06 at 7:08 pm # :

    [...] 1. Ultimate Tag Warrior 2. Adhesive 3. Twilight Autosave 4. Admin Drop Down Menu 5. Wordpress Database Backup Blog [...]

  37. 37
    10 most useful wordpress plugins accordi... United States »
    pingback on 08/Mar/06 at 3:34 pm # :

    [...] 5. Admin Drop Down Menu [...]

  38. 38
    Blogging Marty’s Life - Imagine im... Taiwan »
    pingback on 10/Mar/06 at 10:17 am # :

    [...] 更新致2.0.2,順便新增了Get Recent Comments、Google Sitemaps、Admin Drop Down Menu以及自己改寫的Marty’s list_cats。 Marty @ 4:14 pm Filed under: 站台日誌 [...]

  39. 39
    OYWG`S Blog » wordpress 插ä... China »
    pingback on 12/Mar/06 at 11:55 am # :

    [...] 06.2.27 Admin Drop Down Menu 后台插件 减少你的点击量 必备啊~~ [...]

  40. 40
    Three Bears » Blog Archive »... United States »
    pingback on 12/Mar/06 at 4:49 pm # :

    [...] Admin Drop Down Menu:管理后台用的插件,减少点击量,爽! [...]

  41. 41
    Three Bears » 我爱Plugins United States »
    pingback on 16/Mar/06 at 6:48 am # :

    [...] Admin Drop Down Menu:管理后台用的插件,减少点击量,爽! [...]

  42. 42
    leftleg China »
    thought, on 17/Mar/06 at 4:53 am # :

    呵呵… 不错.装ing…

  43. 43
    CLiFF::BLOG » Blog Archive »... Hong Kong »
    pingback on 19/Mar/06 at 9:56 am # :

    [...] 這個叫Admin Drop Down Menu的WP Plugin真好!把WP後台的Admin Menu變成下拉式目錄設計。一按即到各功能分頁。 [...]

  44. 44
    jawhn United States »
    said, on 20/Mar/06 at 7:06 am # :

    awesome, thank you sir!

  45. 45
    Cregy » Wordpress France »
    pingback on 20/Mar/06 at 10:32 am # :

    [...] I have listed below some additional plugins that I have found useful: Static front page Subscribe Me Adhesive Jerome’s Keywords Admin Menu Dropdown Search and Replace CG PowerPack [...]

  46. 46
    dancemoon.net - RSS China »
    pingback on 07/Apr/06 at 12:04 pm # :

    [...] Admin Drop Down Menu [...]

  47. 47
    David United States »
    said, on 09/Apr/06 at 11:42 pm # :

    I love this plug-in. There is a blank space at the very end of the php that causes rss feeds to fail validation through FeedBurner. Just figured out what was happening and thought I’d let you know. Thanks for making this.

  48. 48
    Marcus\SM Germany »
    thought, on 10/Apr/06 at 12:36 pm # :

    Oh, FAQ me… ;-)

    Well, that FAQ-Auto-Responer IS nice (and it proved useful), but where the **** do I actally find the FAQ??? I would like to look if my other problem is described there too…

    anyways: here’s a screenshot
    (this is static, i.e. no mouse-hovering going on ;) )
    - the actually active tab is “Counter” but the 2nd-level-menu shows part of the options-submenu instead of the counter-submenu
    - the part indicated by the arrow leeds to displaying the otions-submenu when hovered above.

  49. 49
    jazzy United States »
    thought, on 13/Apr/06 at 1:51 am # :

    kicks my face in!!!

  50. 50
    sproke :0) New Zealand (Aotearoa) »
    wrote, on 14/Apr/06 at 12:17 pm # :

    Just wanted to say thank you very much. Have just upgraded to 2.0.2 and have had enough of having to go through a trillion menues to get any where. If this were RL, I would give you a big *kiss* on the cheek :0)

  51. 51
    Ozh France »
    thought, on 14/Apr/06 at 8:30 pm # :

    sproke » thanks for feedback. If I ever come to visit NZ be sure I’ll come and ask for that kiss !

  52. 52
    jazzle Great Britain (UK) »
    wrote, on 27/Apr/06 at 10:09 am # :

    Works great until you have a long list in the options submenu…
    Can you hide the menus some other way?

  53. 53
    David Great Britain (UK) »
    commented, on 17/May/06 at 9:14 pm # :

    Just wanted to say thanks for this plugin, it saves a lot of clicking!

    I’ve noticed that when you have a long options submenu, the contents get pushed from the right, back in on the left under the dashboard.

    David

  54. 54
    Thierry France »
    said, on 28/May/06 at 3:57 pm # :

    I have a problem with this plugin. When it is active, a space is inserted before the Doctype of the XHTML pages.
    But also at the beginning of the RSS feed, making it invalid.
    Even when it is the only plugin active.

    I don’t understand how a plugin, improving the admin interface, can cause this problem.

    Sadly, I can’t use it anymore…

  55. 55
    Ozh France »
    wrote, on 28/May/06 at 7:54 pm # :

    Thierry » you probably edited the file with either a bad text editor saving “rich” text, or with a bad text type (for instance, in some text editors you can specify ANSI, UTF8, DOS, UNIX, etc… formats).

  56. 56
    Thierry France »
    thought, on 30/May/06 at 8:47 pm # :

    Ok thanks.
    I downloaded this time the .txt and I don’t have the problem anymore.

  57. 57
    lamaMike Taiwan »
    wrote, on 05/Jun/06 at 8:45 am # :

    Running Wordpress 2, and I got this error on install:

    Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /hsphere/local/home/lamamike/lamamike.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp_ozh_adminmenu.php on line 19

    Thoughts?

  58. 58
    Ozh France »
    said, on 05/Jun/06 at 12:42 pm # :

    Lamamike » you screwed something up. Delete, get the plugin again, don’t edit it. If fails again, quit blogging :P

  59. 59
    Popovich Australia »
    said, on 22/Jun/06 at 4:29 am # :

    Hey mate, great plugin, works perfectly in firefox. There is however a problem in IE7. The menus end up off the screen, a lot of them unreachable. Just a heads up, as I am happy to stick with firefox, anyways. I do have a lot of plugins installed, but I am pretty sure it worked fine with all of them in my earlier version of IE.

  60. 60
    rob Great Britain (UK) »
    wrote, on 01/Jul/06 at 7:24 am # :

    Hmm, there appears to be a problem with plugins that add top-level menus and that are in subdirectories.

    Given the following menu code:

    add_menu_page(’Now Reading’, ‘Now Reading’, 9, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/now-reading-add.php’, ‘now_reading_add’);

    add_submenu_page(dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/now-reading-add.php’, ‘Add a Book’, ‘Add a Book’, 9, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/now-reading-add.php’, ‘now_reading_add’);
    add_submenu_page(dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/now-reading-add.php’, ‘Manage Books’, ‘Manage Books’, 9, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/now-reading-manage.php’, ‘nr_manage’);
    add_submenu_page(dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/now-reading-add.php’, ‘Options’, ‘Options’, 9, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/now-reading-options.php’, ‘nr_options’);

    Everything works fine for WP (it correctly links to /wp-admin/admin.php?page=now-reading/now-reading-add.php) but Admin Drop Down Menu tries to link to /wp-admin/now-reading/now-reading-add.php?page=now-reading/now-reading-options.php.

    Perhaps a basename() on the menu entry’s filename?

  61. 61
    rob Great Britain (UK) »
    said, on 01/Jul/06 at 7:25 am # :

    Ack, thought pre tags were allowed :( Ah well, not too unreadable I hope.

  62. 62
    Jeff United States »
    said, on 01/Jul/06 at 7:31 am # :

    Whew! Passed the spambot test!

    As a couple people posted a few posts back, seems if you have many options, and I do, then the menu gets large, even covers up the top of the page as it “floats” over that portion of the page.

    My ideal version of this plugin would have the drop down menu not display at all unless the main menu is first hovered over by the mouse. This way if you approach the top of the page below the menu from the bottom, nothing is covered up.

    Hope Ozh gets this before his month long computer vacation! Read a good book for me. :)

  63. 63
    Sephiroth United States »
    replied, on 14/Jul/06 at 1:59 am # :

    Hey there.. Opera user here.. I am using this plugin, along with the Tiger admin interface, and the main panel, (the right-side of the grey seperator) seems to “float” above your menus.. Is this effect wanted? (If you want, I’ll give you a screenshot or two..) Browser: Opera 9, OS: Win XP Media Center Edition

  64. 64
    Dan United States »
    replied, on 21/Jul/06 at 12:50 am # :

    I’ve installed the plugin but it doesn’t work in OS X Firefox or Flock–does work in Safari. Very cool plugin, and I’d love it see it work on Mozilla-based browsers.

  65. 65
    Niklas Sweden »
    said, on 31/Jul/06 at 5:54 pm # :

    Hey there!

    I just upgraded WordPress to 2.0.4, and since then, a loathsome error-line appeared at the top of my blog:

    Warning: ob_start(): output handler ‘ob_gzhandler’ cannot be used after ‘URL-Rewriter’ in /public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 832

    Could be just me, but I haven’t altered functions.php in any way, and this just showed up after the upgrade.

  66. 66
    Stephen Rider United States »
    thought, on 31/Jul/06 at 8:47 pm # :

    (Note for Niklas at the end…)

    Hi. I love this plugin, but thanks to you I also discovered (and Looooove!) the Tiger Admin plugin. This does _not_ work with it! (Mac OS 10.4.7, running Firefox 1.5.0.5 — site is running Wordpress 2.0.4)

    The only effect it seems to have is it prevents the rollover shading on menu items that have submenus — i.e. only Dashboard and Import menus have the shading effect on rollover.

    It works fine without the Tiger Admin plugin. Please don’t make me choose! :(

    also…

    Niklas, I got the same error upon updating Wordpress — it is not related to this plugin. Don’t “sync” your server files — manually overwrite the previous WP files with the new ones. That fixed it for me.

  67. 67
    Niklas Sweden »
    thought, on 01/Aug/06 at 8:48 am # :

    Thanks for the note, Stephen, but I actually manually updated the files by overwriting the old ones.

  68. 68
    Nyomi United States »
    said, on 14/Aug/06 at 7:20 am # :

    First of all let me say that I think the functionality of your plugin is a sorely needed feature when you spend as much time in the WordPress admin interface as I do. Thanks for making it!

    The plugin works as advertised, but I am having some funky display issues with it that, while primarily cosmetic, could offset the benefit of using the plugin for some people. I will try to describe these but if that is insufficient I can email you screenshots if you would like.

    I am using Firefox 1.5.0.6 on OS X 10.3.9, with WordPress 2.0.3 installed. I have a lot of plugins installed (just around 30, not counting widgets!), so my Manage submenu runs onto 2 lines and my Options submenu runs onto 3 lines, but neither overlaps the content area.

    Due obviously to the large amount of plugins I have installed, here’s what happens when I enable your plugin:

    1) No matter Main Menu link I hover my cursor over, instead of a single line submenu area, I see a 2 line submenu area that overlaps the content area (e.g. it cuts off the top of the status message saying “Plugin activated”). The exception to this is when I hover over the Options link, where it shows a 3 line submenu area (as it should) that overlaps the content area.

    2) If I move the cursor into the blank 2nd line of a submenu area (whether coming from above or from below) it suddenly displays all the submenu items from the Options menu instead of the submenu items from the Main Menu item that I have active.

    3) If I have any of the Options submenu items active and hover my cursor over any other Main Menu item, I will see the submenu items for it, but also still see the bottom 2 lines of the Options submenu items (exept for Manage, where I see just the bottom line because it’s a 2 line submenu to begin with).

    4) When I make Import active from the Main Menu, I see at least 2 overlapping submenus. One is about half transparent and appears where it should, the other is slightly transparent and starts just under the word Presentation then runs off the left side of the browser window and is cut off. They both contain links from the Options submenu. If I then hover the cursor over the word Import, I see a 3rd transparent submenu with just the “…” that normally appears if you hover over Import.

    5) As reported by a previous commentor, this plugin does not work for me in in conjunction with Tiger Style Admin (v2.0.1). It has no effect except disabling the grey bg when hovering the cursor over all top level menu links except “Import”)

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    dragon4 China »
    said, on 21/Aug/06 at 8:00 am # :

    Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_SL in wp_ozh_adminmenu.php on line 173

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    Paul Roberts Europe »
    said, on 26/Aug/06 at 9:06 am # :

    just to let you know, the menu is wrongly positioned in IE7rc1, it apears on top of the main menu.

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    icarus Hong Kong »
    wrote, on 28/Aug/06 at 8:01 am # :

    i have the same problem as [68] Nyomi mentioned.
    except for that, the plugin is great!!
    thx!!!

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    anne Germany »
    wrote, on 30/Aug/06 at 11:45 am # :

    irks.. sorry.. it appears that i am the only one who doesn’t get even the beasic installation but i have to know it: what did you mean with the two files having the same name and BOTH being saved as .php?? i only installed one but it doesn’t work, naturally.

    wp_ozh_adminmenu.txt (download and save as .php)
    wp_ozh_adminmenu.php (highlighted code, copy and paste in a blank file, but do not download as is)

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    K.D.A.S Germany »
    wrote, on 03/Sep/06 at 6:15 pm # :

    Hey there.. I found a little problem with the old style control panel & Admin Drop Down Menu: if there are too many subcategories, so that there is a second line, it stays in place even if you move your cursor on another category (if this one doesn’t have a second line!)

    and a second one.. maybe it’s connected to the first: when choosing a main category (no click), going with the cursor under the subcategory-line and then to the most left entry and upwards again it changes to the one category with two lines (the one from the first problem…)

    just thought you should know ;)

    Greetz & have a nice life,
    K.D.A.S

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    Zero China »
    commented, on 04/Oct/06 at 10:14 am # :

    very good!
    it is save my more time..

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    Kenzo France »
    thought, on 08/Oct/06 at 7:04 pm # :

    Salut,
    Merci pour ce plugin, ca me permet economiser bcp de click ^^.
    J’ai 1 sugestion: peux tu faire 1 version drop down classic (de haut en bas) pour ce qui n’utilise pas Tiger admin stp? Je me trompe chaque fois le cible dans la ligne menu(car c’est petit).
    Merci

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    Iva Serbia and Montenegro »
    replied, on 09/Oct/06 at 4:09 pm # :

    Sounds like it can save a lot of time. Thanks:)

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    BLOG TODAY Spain »
    commented, on 11/Oct/06 at 5:01 am # :

    YES, this plugin is a great job and very helpful.
    thx a lot. :-)

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    ovidiu Germany »
    replied, on 25/Oct/06 at 10:27 am # :

    hello,

    I love your plugin, except that I have some problems with it.
    The point is that my options page has two rows of options (I use a lot of plugins….) so when I go to an option page, and then later want to go to write a post, when I hover over write, I cannot click on the post or page submenue because the two-rows submenue of the options tab is overlaying this menue.

    I hope I could explain it right, if not please tell me where to send you a screenshot of what is happening…

    regards
    Ovidiu

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    Rayana Brazil »
    said, on 27/Oct/06 at 9:19 pm # :

    It’s really useful, thank you so much :)

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