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
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 :
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
- Add some cute icons from FamFamFam to menu entries, or don’t add them, it’s up to you
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.
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 so I’ll include them in the package.
The plugin is currently translated in:
- Italian, by Gianni Diurno
- Danish, by Thomas
- German, by Christoph Fertinger
- Español, by Karin Sequen
- French, by me
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, unless you read below)
- 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)
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!
If you’re reporting bugs, you’re welcome, but please provide a screenshot and informations about your browser & your OS.
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awesome, thank you sir!
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thought, 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.
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.
said, on 13/Apr/06 at 1:51 am # :
kicks my face in!!!
replied, 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)
said, 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 !
commented, 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?
thought, 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
commented, 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…
replied, 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).
said, on 30/May/06 at 8:47 pm # :
Ok thanks.
I downloaded this time the .txt and I don’t have the problem anymore.
commented, 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?
wrote, 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
replied, 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.
replied, 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?