Custom Admin Menu for Wordpress
The Custom Admin Menu plugin gives you full control of your Wordpress administration section, without requiring any changes to any files! All customizations are done using a very intuitive graphical interface. This increased degree of customization will turn Wordpress into a real content management system. Here are just a few of the things this plugin can do:
- Change the order of all of your administration menus to whatever you like
- Change the label of any menu item
- Create as many nested sub-menus as you want
- Make any page a top-level page, or move any page to be a child of any other page
- Tons More!
Current Version is 1.04, released on 1/6/07 (see sidebar for release notes)
See It In Action
The only real way to see this plugin in action is to view a screencast. So feast your eyes on this:
Get the Flash Player to see this player.
Installation
- Download the most recent version of the plugin (currently v1.04)
- Unzip the downloaded file (custom_admin_menu_1.04.zip)
- Copy the unzipped folder to your plugins directory
- Activate the “Custom Admin Menu” item in your Wordpress Plugins page
- You’re good to go!
Questions or Feedback?
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Is this working with the latest SVN version of wordpress?
BTW, I like that you showed what you can do with this plugin on a video. I find this very useful to decide if I want this plugin or not.
Benoit —
I haven’t tested the latest SVN version of Wordpress, but the only thing this plugin really requires is that a few internal variables that contain relevant info about the menu and submenu data haven’t changed names and that the relevant action hooks are still in place… So, long story short, I would guess that it works, but I haven’t tried it. Perhaps you could try it out and let me know?
Glad you liked the video. Took me forever to figure out how to get the screencast as a flash video embedded into the website : )
Hi thanks a lot for this plugin:-)
I’ve aktivate this plugin on my testdomain:
Warning: in_array(): Wrong datatype for second argument in /usr/virtualweb/mydomain.de/html/wp-plugins/wp-content/plugins/custom_admin_menu/custom_admin_menu.class.php on line 376
but it works like a charm
Please would you like explain this error.
And I can understand english but it is not my natural language.;)
regards
Monika
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Yeah, I get that error too.
Plus can you make it work on admin drop down menus?
Monika/ MASA — could you give me some more details about exactly when and where this occurs? For example: Did you just see it once when you first activated the plugin, or does it appear on every page? Does it show up at the very top of the page (above all the content) or somewhere else? Also, what version of Wordpress are you using? A few details might help me track the bug a bit faster; thanks.
MASA — never used the dropdown menu plugin before; when i get time i will take a look
Hi Barun,
this is an astonishing piece of code! It works like a charm, though I got the same error as Monika and Masa. In wordpress 2.0.5 the error rises only at first activation and shows up at the very top of the page.
Thanks a lot for this great work and greetings from germany.
Norbert
Admin drop down menus is: http://www.yellowswordfish.com/index.php?pagename=admin-drop-menus-wordpress-plugin
And I get the error when I start the plugin at first. It produced so many errors that it made the page extremely long.
On WP 2.0.5.
Hello all —
The minor bug described above (by Monika, Masa, and Norbert) has been fixed. I’ve updated all of the download links with the new software version (now v1.01 instead of v1.0).
Enjoy!
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Wow. It’s very rare when I’m impressed by a plugin and think to myself “holy sh1t batman, I couldn’t even code that” !
Really smart, really.
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Barun -
Well, the menu disappear completely in wordpress SVN. I think they are changing the structure of the menus. You can always check the TRAC for more information as I’m not really an expert in that field.
Benoit - thanks for looking into it. I’ll check it out when I get a chance and see how much the plugin code will need to change in order to accommodate the new release.
It looks to be a great plugin, Barun, thanks for developing it.
However, I just installed it and had exactly the same problem as Benoit - the menu vanishes entirely. No menu at all, in fact. I’m using WP 2.0.5, not an SVN.
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Neville, Benoit — okay, I’ve fixed the problem. In trying to correct the very minor bug that was first reported, I made a modification that prevented the custom menu from being displayed at all; don’t know how this passed my testing. Oh well — can you try out the new version and let me know if it works for you? (The download link has been corrected to point to version 1.02 now)
Hello Barun,
Your plugin looks impressive but I am unable to download. Have you changed the download link perhaps?
I installed this early this morning and only now got around to checking it out - when I choose to activate the custom menu my menus all together disappear… I noticed you have updated it since so I tired to download but I receive an error 404 page missing or such.
James / Jason — the text link was indeed broken (the download link at the top was still working); I’ve fixed it now. Thanks for the notice.
How about being able to add a new menu item. Say for example I wanted to add a menu item called “Favorite Plugins” for plugins that I always access, while still keeping my standard plugin menu item containing my not so frequently used plugins?
Jason
Jason - unfortunately, that’s not a feature that is likely to exist in this plugin, and here’s why: what you’re describing would require the plugin to not just create a new menu item but also to create a new page that menu item points to. But how could it possibly know what PHP code to use to create any arbitrary page?
If you are just trying to move your rarely-used administration menu items out of sight, you can do one of two things:
(1) pick an existing page and move all of your rarely used menu items underneath it, so that they’re all colocated
and / or
(2) hide whichever pages you don’t really use; you can always use this plugin to unhide them when you need them
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Barun, 1.02 fixed the vanishing menu issue in my WP 2.0.5 installation, thanks.
A very useful plugin!
Barun -
1.02 also fixed current SVN. The menu are showing up now. Thank you for the plugin! I will let you know if the menu vanish at a latter release.
Jason, I may have a solution for you: I put together a tiny plug-in that creates a “Blank” top-level menu. You can find it here: http://n0tablog.wordpress.com/my-wordpress-plug-ins/blank-admin-page/
Personally, I think Barun’s workaround is as good if not better.
Barun, you are my hero. Thx!
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Does’nt work for me. Newest WordPress.
liviopl — have you downloaded the most recent version of the plugin? please make sure you are using version 1.02 (the one that is available now). what sort of error do you see?
BUG/(feature?) report: Barun, when in active mode, your wonderful plug-in interferes with the page formatting of Owen Winkler’s Role Manager. It turns the roles list from table to a single column (much harder to grasp). Probably due to coinciding style names somewhere?
Role Manager is extremely popular and useful, so, while not an emergency, please do put looking into this on your ToDo list. Thx!
Another in-COMPATIBILITY: Barun, your plug-in does not play well with Admin “Advanced” Drop Menus plugin (http://www.yellowswordfish.com/index.php?pagename=admin-advanced-drop-menus-wordpress-plugin )
I am also reporting this to its author: your two plug-ins are are a match made in heaven
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Hi Barun,
Incredible little app you wrote! I wasn’t able to get it to work on my site for some reason. I get this message at the top of the custom admin page:
“Your custom administration menu has been suspended — verify the configuration below in order to reactivate it. Any new items created by the activation of plugins are shown in red below…”
This is with all of my other custom plugins deactivated, so nothing is showing in red.
Thanks for any help in advance!
Like Colby, I got the “Your custom administration menu has been suspended…” message the first time I went to the options page after activating it. However, I just clicked “Yes” to the option to use the custom menu, and that message has not shown up. The custom menu worked fine from that point on.
One thing I did have trouble with, though, is the Akismet plugin. When the custom menu is turned on, clicking on the link under Manage that allows me to view messages trapped (the one that says “Akismet Spam (4)” or however many spam messages are currently trapped) takes me instead to the Akismet configuration page (where I am able to put in the key). This is true even if I have restored my custom menu to the default settings. Just by virtue of saying “Yes” to using the customized menu, the Akismet spam page will not show me trapped messages.
I am using WP 2.0.4
Apart from the Akismet problem, and that message about being suspended at the beginning, I have not seen any other problems, and I LOVE this plugin!
Let me know if you need any more information about the Akismet situation.
steve
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Hello Barun, I really like your piece of neat plugin. However, I found something isn’t working well. Is it possible to get the “Awaiting Moderation” tab working as normal? I mean, when I setup my new admin menu, my “Awaiting Moderation” is showing (1). And even I have no comments awaiting moderation now, it will still show (1).
I have now renamed it to get rid of the (1). If it’s possible, make it to be like before. This plugin is near perfect, and I love it a lot. Thanks very much.
Vincent
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Hello,
I’ve just plugged in your plugin. Seems to be very useful, but just doesn’t work. There is always an error message at the far left edge of the browser status bar. No idea why.
Andreas
hi Barun
I tried this plugin and it works really excellent. But just to let you know a small prob in this. When I tried to make it work on IE7, it shows script error and not submitting the page. But it works really great in IE6 and Firefox.
As a suggestion, I would like to tell you that, if you have an option to add a new menu item, I think it will solve all sorts of problem
Appreciating your excellent work
Thanks
Vikas
Hello,
After having read the comment #42 from Akash, I know the reason of the error I mentioned in post #41: same with me: using IE7 shows sript errors by submitting any changes.
Any work around?
Andreas
Hi Barun,
Just thought I would let you know that I tried installing your plugin on my testing server using MacOSX, but it didn’t appear at all in the menu until I changed all files’ read permissions. I’m not sure why this would have been the case, cause I don’t have to do that with other plugins I download, but nonetheless there it is!
I’m getting the same:
Your custom administration menu has been suspended — verify the configuration below in order to reactivate it. Any new items created by the activation of plugins are shown in red below…
message, i’ve tried re-installing and turning everything else off but nothing seems to get it up and running
any ideas?
Thanks
Hi Barun,
I thought I’d let you know there was a problem with installing your plugin on my site which I run locally on my MacOS X machine (it’s a testing thing) — I had to change the permissions on every file to get it to be visible to WordPress.
This hasn’t happened with other plugins, so I wondered if it was something you might have done.
PS, I loved your screencast!
unforutenately the plugin doesn’t show up in the my wordpress 2.0.5 admin plugin activation page. i put it in the plugins/ folder, but wp seems to not recognize it as a plugin. known bug/work around?
It is really a good idea to use videos to display the plugin in action.
I haven’t had a chance to reply to messages in a few days, but I’ve been reading them. So if you’ve left a comment and haven’t yet received a response from me, you should see one below:
andrabr (#32, #33) — I’ll see if I can make this compatible with Role Manager and the drop down menu plugin.
Steve (#37) — I’m not sure why the Akismet link wouldn’t be working right, but I’ll look into that over the next couple days; should be fixed in the next release of the plugin
Vincent (#39) — The problem you mentioned is a known issue, and one that I plan on having fixed in the next release; thanks for the reminder
Akash & Andreas (#42, #43) — I have no idea why this wouldn’t be working correctly for IE7. I’ll download the new browser on my PC and check it out; hopefully there’s a simple fix…
Raena (#44, #46) — I’m not sure why file permission problems would be cropping up on an OSX server; I haven’t done anything with the files to make that happen (at least not intentionally)
Paul (#45) — Have you tried to just select the “Save Menu” option? The first time you install the plugin, the ’suspended menu’ warning does appear, but it goes away once you save the menu. In the next release I’ll fix this problem so it’s not so confusing.
fv (#48) — Are you using a Mac OS X server? Perhaps you’re having similar permissions errors as what Raena experienced (see her comments, #44 and #46).
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Great Plugin, but i get some srror messages, shown in Firefox 2.0.
prevItem is not defined in dragsort.js on Line 86.
Is there a chance to “repair” it?
Because i love that plugin, but i don’t want to have this messages, shown also outside the adminpanel.
I hope you may help me.
Very neat plugin. I especially love the fact you gave a video to demo it.
I’ve added the plugin to my round up of plugins on my Wordpress Plug-ins/Add-ons page that I know quite a few people reference.
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I have read what others said and also what you said in #50 but I still get that “suspended” message.
Even if I click “yes” and then “save menu” which was the first thing I did after activating it (because I read all the comments here before downloading), it saves, then after the save it puts the radio box back at “no” and gives me the error again. I have repeatedly tried a dozen times in a row doing “yes” and “save menu” but it just spits back in my face.
PS:
Sorry. I forgot to mention I am using WP 2.0.5.
I am really sorry about the extra two comments I made; it’s late and I’m tired so I apologize.
I also forgot to say that all the items listed are in red, every single one of them, even the default menus etc.
When “WP-MooDash plugin” is activ that will cause problem happend to Custom Admin Menu plugin, I found.
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I’m in the same boat as Mark Anthony (comments #55 - #57). I am using version 2.0.5 with no other plugins activated. The options are in red when I first activate it, but turn back to normal after one (failed) save attempt.
Any helps would be appreciated, thanks!
Hi!
I have a problem with this plugin. I can install it and run it, but every time I try to save things, and eaven during the process I get
“Your custom administration menu has been suspended — verify the configuration below in order to reactivate it. Any new items created by the activation of plugins are shown in red below…”
Can any one help me with this?
Hi Barun,
I wrote about my problem back on #36 and am still getting the same problem that 50, 55, & 61 are having. Would really love to use this plugin if possible…thanks for any help in advance!
Colby
Hi Barun, First of all, I would like to congratulate you for this plugin. It is exactly what I need but after installing it, I get the “Your custom administration menu has been suspended…” message. I click on Yes but then the “Save Menu” bottom does not work. This happens using Firefox. I tried it with IE and it happens the same. It also gives me this JS error:
Line:71
Char:1
Error: Object expected
in custum_admin_menu.php
I know I am asking too much but it would be great if you could have a look at this =/
Thank you very much!!
Lucia
Hi again, I installed a Firefox debugging plugin in order to be able to give you more details of the errors I get.
When I enter Custom Admin Menu, I get the following error:
Toolman is not defined (CustomAdminMenu.php line 231)
And when I clic on Save menu, I get this one:
SaveCustomAdminMenu is not defined (Custom_Admin_Menu.php line 1).
I hope it helps…
Best Regards,
Lucia
Hi again Barun Singh,
I wrote the comments (#55 - #57) up above. Just letting you know I replied to the email you sent me today so check your junk mail in case you don’t see it offhand.
Happy new year btw!
Regards,
Mark Anthony
To anyone who is having errors with this plugin — since I can’t recreate your errors on my own system, I have created a new version of the plugin with some debugging features so that I can get a better idea of what is happening on your system. If you are willing to help out in this debugging process (by installing the newer debuggable plugin and letting me know what messages it generates), please contact me and let me know. Hopefully, with help from a few people, I’ll be able to post a newer version of the plugin soon.
Hi Barun, please let me know how can I help. Unfortunately, I do not code but I can test and send you the errors if you want.
Best regards,
Lucia
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A new version, 1.04, of the Custom Admin Menu has been released which should fix all (or at least very close to all) of the problems people have been mentioning in the above comments. The download links on this page have been updated.
If you are still having any problems with the new version, please do let me know.
For the curious among you:
Thanks to many hours of debugging assistance from Mark Anthony (#55-57, 65, 68 above) who was on IM with me as I asked him to upload new error-logging versions of the plugin onto his site and let me know what happened, I finally was able to figure out that peoples’ problems were due to the fact that the plugin wasn’t configured properly to work with Windows servers (the error was on a single line of code). That problem has now been fixed, and the plugin has been fully tested on a Windows server which is now set up on an old PC of mine. I’ve also included some debugging features to help make things easier in the future.
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Hi Barun, Thanks for finding the time to try to solve these problems…
I have installed the new version but unfortunately, I am experiencing the same issues (#63-64).
Can you please give me a clue on what might be happening?
I have the latest version of Mozilla and I am using Windows XP (all patches installed).
Thank you very much!!
Lucia
Hi again Barun,
Please, forget my previous message. I was downloading the 1.02 version using the blue button on the sidebar… =)
I ve just installed the new version. I clic on Yes (use the customized menu), then I clic on “Save menu”.
I get the message: “Administration menu settings updated”, but 2 seconds later, the page reloads itself and I get again “This seems to be a new install (or an upgrade) of the Custom Admin…”.
I activated the checkbox to get the debugging messages but I do not see anything. Where should I look for this messages?
Thank you very much!!!!
Best regards,
Lucia
Lucia –
Both download links have been updated now; thanks for letting me know that the sidebar button was still linking to version 1.02.
I’ve sent you an email to try to figure out whatever issues you’re having with the plugin. Please be on the lookout for it.
Thank You for deciphering the issue. I am afraid that I downloaded the 1.02 version from the same blue box uptop. It was an error message nightmare in firebug. I was feeling a bit forlorned because I am working on a clients admin. I went to go subscribe to this page as a feed, when loe and behold, you solved the problem not 7 minutes before I visited. I am going to try this out and let you know how it goes.–thanks.
Hello Again, please pardon the formatting, as my carriage returns will not work on this comment box or my tabindex for some reason. it seems that the plugin is still not working properly as it will not allow me to move the boxes around, and I am gettin js errors as I move about in the window once I start trying to drag them. I could only tell you what I see from the firebug console. It says that in prototype.js, lines 299 and 297 have the following errors:
line 299: iterator is not a function
(no name)(function())prototype.js (line 299)
_each(function())prototype.js (line 509)
each(mouse: (105,353)(105,461) xmouse: (105,461) left,top: (0,0)(81,447) type=draginit group=Object mousePosition=(105,353))prototype.js (line 297)
_notifyListeners(mouse: (105,353)(105,461) xmouse: (105,461) left,top: (0,0)(81,447) type=draginit group=Object mousePosition=(105,353))drag.js (line 202)
_dragInit(mousedown clientX=0, clientY=0)drag.js (line 146)
[Break on this error] iterator(value, index++);
and also on line 297: this._each is not a function
[Break on this error] this._each(function(value) {
This is all I can do with my deadline today. I am working on a mac, using firefox 2.0.0.1, and wordpress 2.0.4.
The Johnson –
The problem you are experiencing is being caused by a naming conflict between the javascript used by this plugin (which is largely derived from ToolMan DHTML package) and the prototype javascript framework, which must be used by some other plugin you have installed. I can’t provide a fix for this immediately, but I’ll investigate it. I think the newer version of ToolMan might have corrected the problem (since prototype is quite popular now) but I’m not sure.
Thanks for letting me know about the issue so that I know to find a fix for it. Keep in tuned to the feed from this page, as I’ll post a comment once I’ve figured this out.
I’d love to use this plugin, but unfortunately it blows up the layout when used in conjunction with Tiger Admin. I’m assuming it applies custom CSS ids to some elements, and Tiger Admin gets confoozed as a result.
Is it a big deal to make your plugin play nicely with Tiger Admin?
Wayde — Yeah, your guess is right. At the bottom of the Custom Admin Menu options page you can see a setting that lets you choose which administration menu theme you are using. Right now the only options are for the default Wordpress admin menu and the Barunio Admin theme.
Making the plugin work with the Tiger admin menu shouldn’t be too difficult; it’s just a matter of copying some of the css styles, adding a few new ones for nested submenus, and adding the option. I just haven’t had time to do it yet. Since I know there’s a demand for it, I’ll get to it a bit sooner. Expect it to be available in the next release of this plugin. Keep tuned, or subscribe to the RSS feed for this page (link above the first comment) to get informed when that happens.
Cheers Barun. If I end up realllllly needing your plugin, I might be adventurous and suss out the style conflicts myself.
Will let you know if I do.
Thanks for your reply
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Thanks for this beautiful plugin. The only thing I don’t like is that certain menu items (write post, manage posts) are locked — I know that’s hardcoded into the WordPress admin core files but that’s the thing I’m most keen on changing (I would like to make pages the default). Any leads on that?
This is a very very nice blog!… But what made you decide on the theme?
Not working for me. It’s activated, but the hide/show icon does not display in Firefox 2. When I try using it in Safari, I click on the hide/show icon it select the item and drags the menu item around. Then I can’t get the item to stay put.
WP 2.0.6.
hello
is it possible to have different setups for lets say one admin and one user.
making a homepage for another person and want only the most important options to be displayed for the user but all options for the admin.
Nice work - I love this plugin, and by the way, it all seems to work in WP2.1!
Im sure everyone appreciates the hard work you have put into this, but as Peter said - it really would be great to have one setup for admins and another setup for other users (eg editors)… or is that asking too much!
Hi great plugin! However I am having trouble on IE6, WP 2.0.7. The plugin seems to lock when I press “save” the first time (which I´m told to do upon installation..). I get a “sending information”-box which never disappears. I get script error on the page and the drag-n-drop functionality doesnt seem to work.
Is it a browser issue u think? What browsers are reported to work, anybody know?
Greatful for help! And thanx again for a very promising plug-in (as soon as I get it up n running
I’ve downloaded and installed the latest version of the plugin (custom admin) without issue. I opted to hide the dashboard among other things.
However, when you log out, then log back in, you STILL are sent to the Dashboard and it is visible until you click elsewhere, whereupon the dashboard tab disappears.
WP2.1
Windows XP in Firefox 1.5.0.9.
This plugin is excellent! Thank you very much for it. I’ve test it, and until now it works just fine.
I had the same problem like Mark. Write Post and Manage Post are locked because in fact they are the same pages with Write and Manage. So if you want for example, not to display Write Post, Disable Write and make Write Page a 1st level page.
Great plugin, thank you SO much! Exactly what I was looking for… and more!
@casey : this is not in the field of Custom admin menu.
You just have to edit the “general-template.php” file, somwher near line 50, you have this line :
$link = $before . ‘‘ . __(’Site Admin’) . ‘‘ . $after;
Just add “/edit.php” behind “‘/wp-admin” (without the quotes !)
That line would then be :
$link = $before . ‘‘ . __(’Site Admin’) . ‘‘ . $after;
oops ! sorry fo the code in my last comment, I don’t know how to post code without these side-effects…
Great plugin! I got my menu customized the way I like and was a little disappointed to find that it doesn’t work with the drop down menus for spotmilk. Hope this plugin can be made compatible with the drop down menus for added functionality!
Brilliant! I love it! It installed and set up painlessly and it was perfect for what I wanted. (I’m using wordpress as a content management system.) Thank you.
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Great Tool, Thanks.
Using this tool i created 4 pages Home /Technology/Sports/Entertainment/Events
It all shows up works great.
When i create a post on Home i can Categorize to tech/Sports etc.
My question is when click on menu say Sports “how can i show all the posts regarding sports in that page? As od now all the post i creat end up on Home page.
Thanks for your help… i am a newbie !
Barun - thank you for making your Custom Admin Menu plug-in available.
There seem to be some issues with IE7. But maybe we don’t care? Execute buttons and toggles not responding. So, I stopped using IE7. Problem solved. Best regards to you.
Hi Barun,
Your plugin looks very useful and I see you have received lots of good feedback. After installing it, I ran into a problem. The first thing I did was move the “Write Page” menu item up into the top row of menus. However, something about doing that has created a situation where, when I click Options to try to make other changes, only the “General Options” page appears. I can’t manage any of my plugins (including this one) because the 2nd row of menus has vanished. I can’t get back to your plugin to undo what I did. And uninstalling the plugin and re-installing didn’t change anything. The only thing I can do is Deactivate.
Please let me know if there is a fix. Also, one suggestion comes to mind. Maybe there should be a permanent link added to the top row of menus so that you can always get back to your plugin to make changes from there.
Best Wishes,
Josh
hi all
thx for all the help
Hi, I think I have the same problem with the prototype conflict. Apart from that, your plugin is just what I’ve been looking for - great stuff. I hope you can find a fix for the non-draggable Boxes.
Great plugin! I always felt that plugin writers nested their admin controls in inappropriate areas. This plugin remedies that!
One question though: Is there ANY admin menu drop down plugin anyones knows of that doesn’t break with Custom Admin Menu in use?
R/S
Jayme
Hi Barun,
First of all, I apologize for my bad English. It’s not my native language.
I just installed your plugin. And it it works like a charm. I wonder if this plugin can make custom menu for specified role only. What I’m trying to say is if I can make only contributor cannot see “manage” menu. While user with user level above contributor can see it.
Anyway, thanks for great plugin.
Got the same problem as Josh.
I’m using WP 2.1.2 and tried with *every* browser.
Regards,
Colosimo
too difficult to find plugin like this, increase the power of wordpress theme.
Hi, I installed your plugin 5 min ago to do some tests. It looks good, this is what I’m looking for. OK, During the test I hidden the “Custom admin tool” and save.
Now I can’t see it anymore, I already deactivate the extension, deleted the plugin and installed all over again, but, every time I install the plugin again the old configurations are preserved. What’s going on here?
Thanks
Phillip
Great, it would be just even a bit greater, if i could asign a menu to roles, so e.g. hide some options but only for editors, not for admins
Hi,
Thanks for this plugin. But I think it is not totally compatible with WordPress 2.1. When I choose Yes for “Use the customized administration menu?” without doing anything else. It messed up the presentation of the menu.
Maybe the CSS for the Admin in 2.1 is not the same as the 2.0’s CSS. Could you check please? I would really like to use your plugin.
Thanks.
I like this idea a lot but I just can’t get it to work with WP 2.1.2. Any chance for an updated?
Thanks.
SF
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Ok, following my message of the April 4th, it seems you just need to update the default CSS for the custom menu.
Great Work, I tried an earlier version and it didn’t work with wordpressmu, but this one does. Now if you could get it to play nicely with the rolemanager and admin drop down menus plugins. Thanks again.
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Great work. The icon that removes a menu works on (I have been able to remove a menu) but does not work off (I am unable to restore the menu). Thus to restore one item menu, the only one solution is to restore the whole default menu and loose all modifications. Otherwise, could be nice that the best admin menu from frondend (Easy admin access, admin menu with subsection drop-down menus) could work together with your plugin. http://www.100yen.co.uk/wordpress/plugins/easy-admin-access/
Hi Barun, I installed your great plugin with Wordpress 2.1 on a Mac, but it doesn’t seem to work with Safari at all - if clicking on a menu it becomes “sticky” to the mouse….
In Firefox 2.0.0.3 on mac I can hide, rearrange but not use the indent/outdent feature..
Well, and it would be great if it would work togeter with “wp-admin-tiger-v3″
http://orderedlist.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-tiger-administration/
..or at least some dropdown menu like “ozh-adminMenu”
http://orderedlist.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-tiger-administration/
…wrong link to “ozh-adminMenu”! Here the right one:
http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/wordpress-admin-menu-drop-down-css/
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After all different dropdown-menu-plugins doesn’t work with your PlugIn, I created my own custom Admin Theme, but now I also have to change your “custom_admin_menu_default CSS to match mine?
I tried to do that, but struggled with your “subsubmenu” (third level), cause it is nested in the submenu - is it possible to give that “third-level-menu” an #id name somewhere to style that level in an easier way?
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Very cool, but I wish it were compatible with the tiger admin plugin..
http://orderedlist.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-tiger-administration/
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hi, looks very nice! i tried to install it (WP 2.1DE) but i get a server-error Premature end of script headers: plugins.php after activating it :o((( any help..?
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Thanx for Costom admin Menu. Its giving best opportunities to our blogs. We will post a link to our directory.
hi !
a plugin such as subscribe2 (http://subscribe2.wordpress.com)
does not work with this plugin …
three submenus in three different menus
Hi Barun,
..just a little problem with the plugin.
I had a plug in called “organizer” installed, but erased it again.
Somehow Custom Admin Menu still show up that menuitem. How can I get rid of it? Is there a cache or something - I also tried to reinstall Custom Admin Menu, but had no luck….!
Thank’s
I LOVE this plugin, but it keeps suspending itself for no apparent reason. I have a fair few other plugins active, is there a way to foce it to stop suspending itself and revealing all the admin stuff I have hidden, it’s confusing the client!
This works perfectly if I could just remove the suspension and force it to keep working!!