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
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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.
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Get 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:
- 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)
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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commented, on 28/Nov/07 at 5:03 pm # :
I love this plugin and install it first thing on all my wordpress blogs. Just one minor quibble, on some menus, especially created by other plugins, sometimes you have to have a very firm pulse to access the submenus since they tend to blink out when you move the cursor out of the submenu bar
pingback on 02/Dec/07 at 11:54 pm # :
[...] Admin Drop Down Menu - my post about this (read here) [...]
pingback on 05/Dec/07 at 6:09 pm # :
[...] Admin Drop Down Menu - This is a great productivity plugin that takes that little extra step out of the admin menu of clicking on a main link and getting to the submenu - it adds a rollover effect that reveals that dropdown menu for immediate selection. This or a version of it should be implemented in a future version of Wordpress. [...]
thought, on 08/Dec/07 at 5:24 pm # :
I just installed WPMU, you saved me and my track pad! Also I can confirm it works fine in Safari, Firefox AND Opera on the mac :)
Seriously this is the most underrated plugin ever. Cheers.
thought, on 09/Dec/07 at 6:16 am # :
the menu breaks when there are too many plugin options in the settings menu.
wrote, on 10/Dec/07 at 8:08 am # :
Doesn’t works with NextGEN gallery installed. NextGen’s links become incorrect. Had to de-activated it because of that. Please, check it :)
Thanks!
wrote, on 12/Dec/07 at 5:25 am # :
Thanks :) i like ur plugins
replied, on 15/Dec/07 at 12:48 am # :
Hey love the plugin. Just one thing I wanted to bring up. I installed this on my wordpress Mu site, and in doing so when a user has two or more blogs their blog switcher menu becomes unusable on any other page but the dashboard due to your menus higher z-index. Just thought you might want to let users of Mu know to set their switchermenu class in wpmu-functions to a z-index of like 99 or so. Other than that great plugin. It makes navigation wonderfully easy.
thought, on 19/Dec/07 at 10:52 am # :
Very useful plugin. I love it. Thank you.
replied, on 29/Dec/07 at 7:44 pm # :
This is a great mod, however, it is broken in IE 7 :(
Perhaps you could place a note in the above post?
wrote, on 30/Dec/07 at 4:54 pm # :
Sometimes I found that the menus crept in to view on the left margin of the page when there were many options. Changing line 263 from 900px to 9000px fixed this for me and didn’t appear to break anything :-)
Cheers for a great plugin.
thought, on 04/Jan/08 at 6:31 pm # :
I love this plugin, but i had to deactivate it. The problem is that when you have many plugins, the ones to the far right trigger submenus that you can’t get to because they close when you mouse off of the main category. It seems like it would be an easy fix to make those submenus 100% of the available width, but i don’t know where to make that change. Can you let me know? I’d love to have this plugin working. Thanks again.
thought, on 13/Jan/08 at 2:50 am # :
Great plugin! thanks for sharing.
commented, on 21/Jan/08 at 10:08 pm # :
I’d just like to confirm that this works fine on Opera. Well, Opera on Ubuntu Linux at least.
said, on 22/Jan/08 at 5:58 pm # :
I just installed WPMU, you saved me and my track pad! Also I can confirm it works fine in Safari, Firefox AND Opera on the mac :)
replied, on 22/Jan/08 at 5:58 pm # :
the menu breaks when there are too many plugin options in the settings menu.
wrote, on 23/Jan/08 at 4:37 am # :
I was unable to get it to work for me. Just messed up my menu system. Sigh
wrote, on 11/Feb/08 at 9:57 am # :
This is an information that is obviously of great value. This plug-in is exactly what I have been looking for.Thanks for sharing it!
replied, on 08/Mar/08 at 6:46 pm # :
to Joe.. well it does works for me, i mean the NextGen links works..
should it not work for you, try accessing the gallery menu first, after that it’s all breeze :)
thought, on 13/Mar/08 at 3:51 am # :
Ozh, I like the plugin but it messes up the javascript Media Manager uploader in the Write screen. Basically it mucks up the ability to manage the file information and disables the ability to add images to posts.