{"id":450,"date":"2006-01-19T10:28:57","date_gmt":"2006-01-19T08:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frenchfragfactory.net\/ozh\/my-projects\/wordpress-plugin-admin-css-drop-down-menu\/"},"modified":"2013-01-26T14:50:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T12:50:16","slug":"wordpress-admin-menu-drop-down-css","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/my-projects\/wordpress-admin-menu-drop-down-css\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Plugin : Admin Drop Down Menu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 (&quot;Manage&quot; for example) and then only on a submenu link (&quot;Comments&quot;) So came a very neat plugin : the <strong>WordPress Admin Drop Down Menu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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 &quot;desktop application&quot; feel, and I think it&#39;s superior to a vertical menu. So I updated the <strong>WordPress Admin Drop Down Menu<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"561\" height=\"145\" src=\"http:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/admin-drop-down-menu.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"admin-drop-down-menu\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/admin-drop-down-menu.jpg 561w, https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/admin-drop-down-menu-300x77.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 561px) 100vw, 561px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Download<\/h2>\n<p>Get the plugin :<\/p>\n<div class=\"download\">\nDownload the plugin :<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/downloads.wordpress.org\/plugin\/ozh-admin-drop-down-menu.zip\">ozh-admin-drop-down-menu.zip<\/a><br \/>\nExtract and upload to your blog, preserving directory structure.<br \/>\n<small>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<\/small>\n<\/div>\n<p>Activate and enjoy. Another friendly install &#038; forget piece of PHP.<\/p>\n<h2>Features<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Customizable color scheme with a neat color picker<\/li>\n<li>Normal mode for regular users, compact mode for real estate maniacs, minimal mode for those who never have enough<\/li>\n<li>Optional cute icons from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.famfamfam.com\/\">FamFamFam<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Enhanced compatibility with handheld devices<\/li>\n<li>Joy and happiness for every day<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Javascript is involved for advanced features and to make stuff compatible with MSIE6, but on any decent browser everything works even with Javascript disabled.<\/p>\n<p> Super neat color picking.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"552\" height=\"241\" src=\"http:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/admin-drop-down-menu-color-picker.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"admin-drop-down-menu-color-picker\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1052\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/admin-drop-down-menu-color-picker.jpg 552w, https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/admin-drop-down-menu-color-picker-300x130.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><\/p>\n<p> Any color you&#39;ll love.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/admin-drop-down-menu-preview.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"admin-drop-down-menu-preview\" width=\"380\" height=\"253\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1051\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/admin-drop-down-menu-preview.jpg 380w, https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/admin-drop-down-menu-preview-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Normal or compact display.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/normal-compact.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"normal-compact\" width=\"380\" height=\"340\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1053\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/normal-compact.jpg 380w, https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/normal-compact-300x268.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Browser compatibility<\/h2>\n<p>The plugin has been developed on Firefox 3, Chrome and MSIE7. It should do fine with MSIE6 and Safari too.<\/p>\n<p>There are glitches with Firefox 2 and Camino which both use a deprecated rendering engine. There are also glitches with Opera. I won&#39;t fix these, but if anyone wants to submit a CSS patch to resolve one of these issue, you&#39;re welcome :)<\/p>\n<h2>Developer friendly<\/h2>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/my-projects\/wordpress-admin-menu-drop-down-css\/api-for-plugin-coders\/\">API for Coders<\/a> page for examples and documentation. Also, all elements the plugin produces get custom CSS classes and id&#39;s to allow easy styling or selecting.<\/p>\n<h2>Translations<\/h2>\n<p>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&#39;ll include in the package.<\/p>\n<p>The plugin comes with the following translations, in no particular order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Turkish, thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/beyn.org\/\">Baris \u00dcnver<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Korean, thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/incommunity.pe.kr\/wordpress\/\">Jong-In Kim<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Spanish, thanks to Karin Sequen<\/li>\n<li>Italian, thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/gidibao.net\/\">Gianni Diurno<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Deutsch, thanks to Frasier Crane<\/li>\n<li>Russian, thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatcow.com\/\">Fat Cow<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Brazilian Portuguese, thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/renatotavares.com\/\">Renato Tavares<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Greek, thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/friedlich.wordpress.com\/\">Friedlich<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Belorussian, thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/antsar.info\/\">ilyuha<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Hebrew, thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/hatul.info\/\">Amiad Bareli<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Romanian, thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.octav.name\/\">Octav<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ukrainian , thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/wpp.pp.ua\/\">wpp.pp.ua<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skinik.name\/\">Jurko Chervony<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Traditional Chinese, thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/paogray.com\/\">Paogray<\/a> and Joan Wang<\/li>\n<li>Dutch, thanks to Cees van den Heuvel<\/li>\n<li>Slovak, thanks to Branco from <a href=\"http:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/user-reviews\/\">WebHostingGeeks.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And maybe more since I might totally forget to update this list :)<\/p>\n<h2>Older Versions<\/h2>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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: <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/ozh-admin-drop-down-menu\/download\/\">Other versions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Feedback, Bug report, Feature request<\/h2>\n<p>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!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#39;re reporting bugs, you&#39;re welcome, but <strong>please<\/strong> provide a screenshot and informations about your browser &#038; your OS. I&#39;m not supporting deprecated blogs or plugins or browsers, and I can&#39;t respond to incomplete bug reports.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#39;re suggesting a feature, you&#39;re welcome too, but I won&#39;t add an admin menu on the public side of the blog, on top of pages. If you&#39;re looking after having this menu fixed on top of page, check this companion plugin that works as a plugin to this plugin: <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/admin-menus-fixed\/\">Admin Menus Fixed<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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