Make managing your WordPress dashboard easier with Admin Drop Down Menus plugin
If you’re a WordPress blogger who posts one new post every few days, you might not mind the default navigation menu in the admin/dashboard. But once your blogging volume increases, and you’re writing posts, pages, and managing comments and plugins, it becomes annoying that the most common actions, like writing a new post, take two clicks: one on Write, and another on Write Post.
I’ve tried a few plugins that change the WordPress admin, but all of them had one problem or another. Thanks to Tal Galili, I’ve found what seems to the be the perfect solution: Admin Drop Down Menus from Yellow Swordfish.
This plugin changes the default navigation into a drop-down menu, so you can easily select the option you want without clicking multiple times. It has two limitations:
- It needs Javascript to work – not so serious.
- You won’t be able to see who’s subscribed to comments if you use the Subscribe to Comments plugin – it’s not this plugin’s fault, but the fault of the Subscribe to Comments plugin. This is explained in the Read Me file.
Despite the above, it seems to be worth it – this can save you tons of time and annoying clicks-and-waits.I don’t know if I’ll ever go back.
Update: Hannit at Achi Dakar has Hebraicized this plugin for users of the Hebrew WordPress installation.
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[...] Admin Drop Down Menus – save time and frustration with this plugin that turns the standard admin navigation menu into a user-friendly drop-down menu. Now you can get to the Write Post page with one click instead of two! See our review here. [...]
I agree with you, this is a great one.
I’ve already “RTLed” the optional CSS that is avaliable on the site and intend to offer it for download both to the plugin developer and to my readers – will probably be released tomorrow.
Hannit – how excellent! That will be really helpful to right-to-left bloggers.
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I wonder if that works with the WP Tiger Administration (http://orderedlist.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-tiger-administration/)?
I hate the default skin on the admin interface. It’s very ugly IMO.
Ryan – I installed Tiger Admin at one point, and then had to uninstall it because something wasn’t working quite right – I don’t know what. But in my opinion this plugin fixes the main problem with the WordPress admin, and that is the annoying multi-click nav bar. Once that is fixed, the rest seems pretty ok.
To answer my own question … yep, it does work with Tiger Admin, but you lose the left side menu bar and get a blank space which looks a little silly. I’ve now uninstalled Tiger Admin as this is a definite improvement. Thanks for the good plugin
One minor quibble … why the heck do I need to go into a dropdown to choose from 1/1 options? ie: the “Dashboard” dropdown. I’d prefer if those were left as a simple button. Although I don’t use the dashboard anyway so it’s a moot point.
I really like this plugin, make my dashboard clear & easier to jump to any shortcut link.
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[...] Admin Drop-down Menus Plugin: also a life saver (not the candy). Can you imagine getting to the Write Post page with just one click, instead of clicking on Manage, waiting, and then clicking on Post? Will, this plugin turns everything into drop-down menus, so submenus are just one click away. [...]