[wp-hackers] Suggestion for WP-Admin Navigation

[Josh Jarmin]

I'm no good at PHP, but I know enough to guess that it would be easy
enough to write a few lines of code that would take what is in
menu.php and loop it into a dropdown list.  That way it would auto
update if you added or took away some tabs.  Has anyone done this
before or working on it now?  I think it would be a great addition for
WP 1.3


On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 00:05:55 +0530, Amit Gupta <amit at igeek.info> wrote:
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> André Medeiros wrote:-
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> What you have there is simply an overhead. What you are saying might
> easilly be acheived by a simple javascript library and a bit of css. 
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> If someone is interested, I can code this.
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> I didn't say that we need to use PHPLM itself. If you'd read what I wrote
> carefully then you'd noticed that I said "something like PHPLM". In simple
> english, that means something else(if not PHPLM) that's similar to PHPLM,
> not meaning that PHPLM itself should be used. I can't simplify more than
> this. 
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> Elliott C. Bäck wrote:-
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> I don't see the use in drop-down web menus--can you provide a concrete 
> example of the subpages you would want to add to, say, "Write?"  The 
> simplicity in the current single level menus is something I really like 
> about the admin interface.
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> Maybe you like to click 2-3 links & load 2-3 pages before reaching your
> destination page when you can just reach it in a single click & a single
> page load. Maybe you like to do things hard way but I don't want to comment
> on this. Its your own preference afterall & each individual is entitled to
> follow his/her preferences. But what I meant to say by suggesting that we
> use something like that is that WordPress isn't just for developers. Its
> also for common people who are not so tech-savvy & who are busy & they want
> to get things done easily and quickly. A menu like that would save time. 
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> And using a drop-down menu bar doesn't mean that you have to have a menu on
> every tab. Some tabs may be without menu, so you have your answer for the
> "Write" tab. 
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> Owen Winkler wrote:-
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> I like the single-level static menus, too, but I also think it's 
> inconvenient to have to click through two menus/pages to get to the 
> Options page that I want.
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> For example, I would like a way to access the Options > Discussion page 
> without seeing the Options > General page.  Or a better example, I 
> would 
> like to access the Manage > Awaiting Moderation page from the Write 
> page. 
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> I'm not necessarily an advocate of stuffing the admin full of 
> javascript 
> menus, but making things easier pleases me.
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> Right on. *thumbs up* :D 
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> Alex King wrote:-
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> A drop down (<select> control) that jumps to all pages would be cool 
> and easy to hack in.
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> Good Suggestion. That would be cool as well. :D 
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> Scott Merrill wrote:-
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> Or a hierarchical <ul> of all admin links.  We present categories in
> a <ul> to our readers for easy navigation, why not the same
> mechanism on the inside?
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> But that would result in a lot of clutter, displaying the links in a List. 
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> Josh Jarmin wrote:-
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> What about using something like this: 
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> http://www.htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/dropdowns/ 
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> It is standards compliant and uses almost no javascript, so it runs
> very light and fast.
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> That's a very good suggestion again. And that's some good examples too. With
> a bit of styling, that menu can be made like Julia Roberts. :) 
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> Michael Ewens wrote:-
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> I implemented one of these at my undergraduate college that needs no JS 
> in Mozilla (though IE demands it). It would seem more pertinent to the 
> WP admin menu which is more horizontal. 
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> http://economics.wustl.edu/
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> That's good indeed but it has a problem with space. WP1.3 will allow plugins
> to specify their own menus & if the user has a lot of plugins like that,
> there would be a problem implementing it. Its good if you know exactly how
> many menu items you'll implement but in uncertain scenarios like here, its
> best to go with drop down vertical approach.
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