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 Worpdress 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 Worpdress 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
- Belorussian, thanks to Fat Cow
- Brasilian, thanks to Renato Tavares
- Greek, thanks to Friedlich
And maybe more since I might totally forget to update this list :)
Older Versions
Version 2.3.4.1 for WordPress 2.5 to 2.6.5 is available and unsupported:
ozh-admin-drop-down-menu.2.3.4.1.zip
Extract and upload to your blog, preserving directory structure.
Demo: what it used to be in WordPress 2.5 to 2.6.5
Version 1.3.1 for WordPress 1.5 to 2.3.3 is still available too, after all these years:
- 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)
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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pingback on 04/Jul/09 at 2:22 am # :
[...] been using Ozh’s Admin Drop Down Menu, a Wordpress plugin that arranges the current admin area menus in a horizontal, instead of a [...]
commented, on 02/Jul/09 at 5:03 am # :
Love the plugin
BUT I’ve got an extremely annoying problem, intermittently a long list of menu entries which are expected to wrap (the settings menu) but instead of just wrapping the whole list of about 65 entries collapses to 5 (or up to 11). Sometimes it works OK then it collapses and wraps to 5 (the first 4 in the list and the Last on its own on the second row, or more up to 10+1 on the bigger screen on my IMAC – depending on browser window size) and from then on remains collapsing. The first level menu items are also wrapped but work OK except the 2nd line does not inherit the CSS styling – the raised style you give the menu.
And I then have to disable the plugin when I need to get to items in the settings menu. It exhibits this behaviour whether I access my blog using my Win-PC laptop or IMAC on any browser, IE8, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Opera, Camino, Omniweb, Flock.
Obviously as its a dynamic effect I cannot give you a screenshot.
By the way your IP-2-country data is wrong (or was on 22-June) its saying I’m from Sweden, but I am UK based with my blog being US hosted
wrote, on 01/Jul/09 at 5:17 pm # :
Lately, the dropdown menu for Settings goes horizontal instead of vertical. Because mine is so long, it was difficult to scroll down it even in vertical form, but it’s impossible in vertical. Is there something I need to change? Thanks, Jim
commented, on 01/Jul/09 at 12:19 pm # :
trm96 » the changelog is included in the plugin source, and generated by SVN as I commit http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/ozh-admin-drop-down-menu?verbose=on
replied, on 01/Jul/09 at 10:47 am # :
Is there a change log for this plugin? If not there needs to be one, if so could someone link me to it?
This is the greatest plugin of it’s kind, hands down!
pingback on 30/Jun/09 at 5:47 am # :
[...] been using Ozh’s Admin Drop Down Menu, a Wordpress plugin that arranges the current admin area menus in a horizontal, instead of a [...]
pingback on 26/Jun/09 at 11:28 am # :
[...] been using Ozh’s Admin Drop Down Menu, a Wordpress plugin that arranges the current admin area menus in a horizontal, instead of a [...]
thought, on 24/Jun/09 at 8:15 pm # :
I didn’t expect it to be so wonderfully handy and I just love it. Whole set up is so well manageable, all needed is somuch faster to be found, simply great.
Thank you so much for creating this!!
Sincerely,
Maya