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.
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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replied, on 01/Jul/06 at 7:25 am # :
Ack, thought pre tags were allowed :( Ah well, not too unreadable I hope.
wrote, 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. :)
commented, 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
commented, 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.
thought, 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.
said, 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.
wrote, 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.
replied, 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”)
wrote, on 21/Aug/06 at 8:00 am # :
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_SL in wp_ozh_adminmenu.php on line 173
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.
said, 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!!!
commented, 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)
said, 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
commented, on 04/Oct/06 at 10:14 am # :
very good!
it is save my more time..
said, 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
said, on 09/Oct/06 at 4:09 pm # :
Sounds like it can save a lot of time. Thanks:)
said, on 11/Oct/06 at 5:01 am # :
YES, this plugin is a great job and very helpful.
thx a lot. :-)
thought, 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
thought, on 27/Oct/06 at 9:19 pm # :
It’s really useful, thank you so much :)
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