Now and then I like to see what kind of WordPress plugin’s there are available, and today I found one of them that I was really impressed with. the plug-in Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu.
The lazy and the productive will love it : all admin links available in a neat horizontal CSS driven drop down menu. No need to click on "Manage" then "Pages" to edit pages, go to any admin page from any admin page.For documentation, examples, screenshot and a live demo, please refer to the official plugin page for Admin Drop Down Menu. There is also an API for plugin coders (give your plugin its own special icon!).
Current version is for WordPress 2.7+ only. For WordPress 2.6.5 and older, see the plugin's page.
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
Download the plugin :
ozh-admin-drop-down-menu.zip
Installation:
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 plug-in was hosted on the plug-in directory
Activate and enjoy. Another friendly install & forget piece of PHP.
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