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 WordPress 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 WordPress 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
- Russian, thanks to Fat Cow
- Brazilian Portuguese, thanks to Renato Tavares
- Greek, thanks to Friedlich
- Belorussian, thanks to ilyuha
- Hebrew, thanks to Amiad Bareli
- Romanian, thanks to Octav
- Ukrainian , thanks to wpp.pp.ua and Jurko Chervony
- Traditional Chinese, thanks to Paogray and Joan Wang
- Dutch, thanks to Cees van den Heuvel
- Slovak, thanks to Branco from WebHostingGeeks.com
And maybe more since I might totally forget to update this list :)
Older Versions
All my plugins are designed to run on the latest WordPress version available. Upgrade WordPress whenever a new version is out, or be sorry when your site gets compromised.
If for some unintelligent reason you need to get an older version of this plugin, it might be available, yet totally unsupported or recommended. Check here: Other versions.
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. If you're looking after having this menu fixed on top of page, check this companion plugin that works as a plugin to this plugin: Admin Menus Fixed.
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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.
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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?
Myjutsu » 2.0.1 ici et pas de probleme… (Ã 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)
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.
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.
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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?
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
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Wordpress Version Check 1.00
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Google Sitemaps 3.0
Dunstan's Time Since 1.1
Admin Drop Down Menu 1.2
Works great for me! thanks for saving me a few clicks and a few seconds! :)
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.
Ozh, Yes I am hosted on a Windows server!
The new plugin works well now!
Thanks very much!
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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
Ho, great. "It's not working". That really helps.
My answer is : "It *is* working".
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
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> Ho, great. “It’s not workingâ€. That really helps.
> My answer is : “It *is* workingâ€.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
kicks my face in!!!
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)