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February 19th 2007. Lighter Menus

Lighter Menus creates drop-down menus instead of the regular admin menus of the WordPress interface, so that you can browse items with one click and work at your blog in a much more usable environment.
Fast to load, adaptable to color schemes, Lighter Menus comes with silk icons by famfamfam, a option page, and a design that fits within the Wordpress 2.5 interface taking the less room possible.
Lighter Menus it is not an entirely original plugin, its code is largely based on the Admin Drop Down Menus plugin by Ozh. Anyway, it comes with its own flavor and extra features.

Download:

Download Version 2.7
~ 3847 downloads from this page.

Note #1: the latest version of the plugin (and previous versions as well) can always also be downloaded from the Wordpress Repository.

Note #2: if you are using wordpress 2.3.x or earlier, you should stick to the old version of the plugin: lighter admin menu 2.3

Installation:

Extract the archive; put it into your wp-content/plugins folder and activate (deactivate and reactivate if you're upgrading).
Review the options at Design > Admin menus options.

This plugin has been tested with Firefox, Opera, Safari and IE 7.
 

-- the plugin under firefox2


-- the plugin under IE7, with the classic color scheme.


-- the plugin under Opera


-- the plugin under Safari for windows


-- the plugin option page

Translations

This version of Lighter Menus features localizations in:

* Chinese, thanks to dupola
* Japanese, thanks to ne-design
* German, thanks to Kristian Bollnow
* Chinese (Taiwan), thanks to hit1205
* Italian, thanks to, well, yours truly.

More are needed! If you want to translate this plugin in your language you are very welcome! In fact there are very few lines to translate. Just be aware that despite what poEdit wants you to do, you should take a moment to check the code and then translate only the items that are actually under the textdomain 'lighter-menus'. You will notice in the code that 35 or so translatable items have no textdomain indicated (they look like this: _('Dashboard'), instead of this: _('Dashboard', 'lighter-menus') ). They're in the functions "lm_icons" and "lm_build" and they are just menu items names used for reference when binding them with the respective icons or style classes. In such cases just leave the translation empty, it would be useless work to translate said items since they are not for the user to read. Your Wordpress locale takes care of those translations.

changelog:

* 2.7 This version includes Chinese-Taiwan translation. Thanks to hit1205 for the effort! hit1205 also heroically helped to fix the "no howdy" feature for Wordpress Chinese. Thanks man! This version also implements a new feature, asked for by Callum on the blog: the ability to optionally show the comment bubble even if there is nothing to moderate. You're welcome, man! :) I also cleaned a little the appearance of the above mentioned bubble, it should look less ugly now.
And with this I'm really done. An almost round number, 2.7 is really going to be the last update for a while.
* 2.6.9 A leftover "blah" of some testing I had done in the past was still in the output. It's a miracle it didn't show up in a worse way. A big thank you to Shobba for poiting this out and apologies for yet another bugfix update... I also fixed something with the deactivator... Anyway, I am amazed, there's always something to fix.
* 2.6.8 This version includes a Japanese translation, thanks to ne-design, and a German translation, thanks to Kristian Bollnow. Much obliged to both of them! I also managed to have the "no howdy" option working with Wordpress in Japanese (still no luck with the Chinese version, I need a guru of regex to understand this), and fixed a problem with menu icons when running with Wordpress in Japanese (thanks to ne-design for pointing it out). Also, I made the regular menu link color a little brighter, and cleaned the code here and there. I think this will be the last update for a while so let's hope everything is fine with it.
* 2.6.7 This version includes Chinese translation! A million thanks go to dupola for the effort. Also: I fixed a pretty ugly bug that broke the effect of different color of the side menu with local version; I changed the aspect of the option page to make it more similar to the regular Wordpress 2.5 option pages; I fixed the removal of 'Help' and 'Forums' links, where local versions of Wordpress that personalized those links would broke the function; I added the option to remove the 'Howdy', too, although this feature does not work in the Chinese version. While I was there I also redid the italian translation of the plugin, it was horrible. Now it is just a little less horrible. I can't believe how much the IT lexicon sounds ugly in italian. Finally, once again thanks to dupola who made me notice a couple of oversights, including that the link to the plugin home page was mysteriously all scrambled. All should be fixed now. All things considered, I'd say this update is recommended too.
* 2.6.6 Corrected a serious bug that prevented the new 2.5.1 media uploader to work with Lighter Menus. Now everything should work out fine. Also fixed the comment awaiting moderation message that incorrectly showed up with 0 comments to moderate. Recommended.
* 2.6.5 This version revamped almost entirely the most part of the code... It already was in a way, but this plugin is basically now an adaptation of the current Ozh's Admin Drop Down Menus plugin. Anyway, my plugin required many hours of extra work to implement new features including an option page (now with more options), more consistent colors and adaptation to color schemes (also custom ones), an uninstaller etc. This update also fixes a lot of bugs and potential bugs compared to version 2.6.1, and also imports from Ozh a number of great features like WPMU support, the ability to optionally display the original submenu, and the wrapping of the main menu within smaller windows. Useless to say how much I am grateful to the man.
* 2.6.1 This version adds an easy to use uninstaller to optionally remove every trace of Lighter Menus upon deactivation. This feature can be found in the Design > Lighter Menus page. You won't notice, but this version also moves all the options in only one record in the database to occupy less space. Okay, there were only two records before, but still. IMPORTANT: because of the modified options, you are advised to deactivate and reactivate the plugin upon upgrading. Also in this version there are few small fixes. I always find small things to fix, I can't say why.
* 2.6 Fixed a bug with Safari not adjusting the width of the menus correctly and other minor fixes.
* 2.5.9 This version prepared Lighter Menus for localization. Do come forward if you're willing to translate this plugin in your language, there are very few lines to translate. Only italian and default english are available so far (please check the "Technical note for Translators" in the readme.txt). Also, I slightly changed the name of the plugin, I hated the old name, I hope you'll understand.
* 2.5.8 Fixed a issue with other plugins adding extra long menu entries. Now menus widen and narrow at ease. Thanks to Karl for pointing out this.
* 2.5.7 Added a nifty option page where you can toggle a couple of customizations, like menu icons. For your convenience, the necessary files of the plugin now consist in just one file "lighteradminmenus.php", and the "images" folder. All the css files are now integrated and can be removed from the plugin folder after the upgrade. Small fixes as much as you want.
* 2.5.6 Tried to distinguish chromatically the elements of the menu accordingly to Wordpress 2.5, sliding them to the right in the main menu. Maybe a good idea, maybe not. Let me know.
* 2.5.5 I never realized Wordpress 2.5 had two color schemes (thanks tonchi!). Lighter admin menus now adapts to this, quite beautifully I must say. Also very important fix: the menu now gives feedback when editing posts and pages (it failed to before).
* 2.5.4 fixed the awaiting comments alert and other minor glitches. Cleaned the code a good deal. Recommended.
* 2.5.3 slight redesign to favor smooth corners in the menus.
* 2.5.2 small fixes (thanks to Robert!) and a slight redesign favoring the "tab" effect. Also FF 2 and IE 7 look more alike now.
* 2.5.1 small fixes
* 2.5 redesigned to fit into wordpress 2.5.
* 2.3 trying to fix a function that breaks translations of wordpress. We'll see.
* 2.2 actually the first version of this plugin. It should be alpha something. But because I haven't changed a line of php code in it, it is only fair that the version number should depend on the plugin I used as the base for this


 
 


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97 Responses to “Lighter Menus” :



corpodibacco said

some mishap happened and all comments on this post have been deleted. Sorry about this.
I am answering now to the last unanswered comment that was here, by MinJun.

MinJun: I installed simple tagging (hey, that’s a cool plugin by the way) but I can’t reproduce the problem you are referring to. In my case the “Tags” menu works fine, and in the code the links contain regular slashes. On the other hand, the example you provide contains a backslash:

yours:
admin.php?page=simple-tagging\simpletagging.admin.php
mine:
admin.php?page=simple-tagging/simpletagging.admin.php

As far as HTML goes, it is pretty obvious for a backslash to disappear from an address, so if you have a backslash there that’s certainly a problem, and it should be solved by manually editing the plugin and replacing it with a slash.

I don’t know what caused such a problem, but I don’t have enough evidence or reason to believe that the problem was caused by my plugin.



MinJun said

@corpodibacco
Thanks for your quick answer, and i’m sorry to hear that the previous comments got lost (but glad that you were nevertheless able to answer mine *g*).

Did i mentioned that the error occured testing on a local server (XAMPP working on winXP with WP 2.1) - if not, sorry.
After i read your answer above i set up WP on my webspace and voila everything is working fine (as you described it), even your cool plugin. :)

I don’t exactly know why WP works with an backslash on my local version. Maybe because the simple tagging plugin lays in a subfolder (and windows loves backslashes in its filesystem)?
With the “Admin Menu Drop Down Plugin from Ozh” which “inspired” Andy Staines to write the “Admin Drop Menus” i once had the same problems on my local system. Without any of this three plugins my local version works fine.

At least thanks for your help (as it works on my webspace) and again thanks for your plugin :)



Jayme said

Great adaptation to the original Advanced Admin Menus plugin! The change I made was the following:

#adminmenu li:hover ul li a {

where I found width: 200px to fit everything a lot better. FYI.

Do you know if this could ever work with Custom Admin Menus… without breaking? (http://barunsingh.com/software/custom-admin-menu/)

They’re both great plugins (must-haves, if I could be so bold), but they don’t get along at ALL.

Jayme



Alex said

This renders quite poorly in IE6, the rows seem to have gaps in between them. Is there anyway that you could make an IE6 friendly.

Also, when you are on the “Write Page” page the dropdown for “Manage” shows “Manage” as a list item and nothing else. The same occurs when on the “Page Management” page, the “Write” menu only lists “Write” as a list item and nothing else.

See it here: http://www.esnips.com/doc/da5ad7ca-7913-4b08-b845-539667dccda1/dropdown_error2
And here: http://www.esnips.com/doc/22d72e76-fb73-4eae-be2b-dbb56dbc7d71/dropdown_error1

Otherwise, an awesome plugin!



UU said

thank you plugins,i like it



Renato said

Ótimo plugin! Vale a pena instalar! Obrigado!



Austen said

This is so beautiful. Thank you.



csign said

Attention - this plugin doesn’t work together with the plugin SUBSCRIBE2 !!
If you use both, the option menu of SUBSCRIBE2 is not to see; you need to disable “lighter admin drop”, before you can make any settings of SUBSCRIBE2!
Perhaps someone can work upon this bug?



Jens Gessmann said

I get a fatal Error when trying to open your php-site.

Fatal Error: Call to undefined function: add_action() in c:\programme\apache group\apache\htdocs\lighter_admin_menus\lighteradminmenus.php on line 342

In line 342 is the routine: add_action(’admin_head’, ‘aws_header’);

Is there any way I can fix this?



Jack said

Hey there!

Where can I download all the images that go to the /images/ directory?
Did you leave them out of the v.2.3 zip file on purpose?

Thanks.



corpodibacco said

@jack: no, sorry. It was a mistake. The download should be okay now. If not, try downloading from this page directly (not via the wordpress repository), the zip here is complete.



canarkadaş said

Thanks..
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indojepang said

great!! thanks a lot! faster than advance dd menu



Ryan said

When I activated the plugin it worked but the menus didn’t drop down, they dropped sideways. I’m using Safari.



Rolf Nölle said

Nice plugin. Works great with firefox.
If there are many menu items, the last items will disappear on the right side of the screen.
Where can i set up the width of the menu items?



Tigraine said

I just wanted to say that there is a Problem with the Statspress Plugin that uses a second level ob Submenu and doesn’t get displayed by this Plugin.

Although I really love those Dropdowns I need to deactivate it to get to my StatPress Data.

StatPress:
http://www.irisco.it/?page_id=28



eden said

hi! your admin menu looks very nice! but there is no icon for “presentaion->widgets”, why?



Bastian said

Voy a installar un poco tu plugin. Me parece que esta lindo. Muchas gracias!



johny why said

the following screenshot shows a bug in your otherwise fantastic plugin.

http://uploadingit.com/files/361476_xk17i/WP%20Admin%20Menu%20Drop.png

the menu does not properly load the submenus, when an adjacent menu is selected.

so far, i’ve only seen this affect the Write menu.



MilleSabords said

Lighter Admin Drop Menu doesn’t work together with the plugin Whoismanu PhotoQ a photoblog plugin. This plugin add an entry in Option menu and another one in manage menu.
When i activate Lighter Admin Drop Menu plugin, i can’t access to the manage PhotoQ page because it replace the normal link
http://mysiteURL/wp-admin/edit.php?page=whoismanu-photoq.php
by this one :
http://mysiteURL/wp-admin/admin.php?page=whoismanu-photoq.php
ie the same link as in the Option menu.
Can you resolve this bug in a new version ?



Çanta said

Tanks vallahh ;)



108er said

Thanks a lot for the plugin,
it makes me sooo fast, damned!
good job.



nanokultur said

This is so great! Works perfectly! Helps a lot. I will recommend this!



7days said

Nice plugin. Works great with firefox and WordPress 2.2.3.



johny why said

hi

seems to be a bug in the plugin:

http://uploadingit.com/files/438750_szo6m/lighteradmin.png



Chriss said

Doesn’t work well in Safari Version 3.0.4 (5523.10.6; Mac OS X, Leopard)

http://bildupload.sro.at/a/images/1-Bild%2010.png



muhabbet said

mersi



forma said

forma imalat uretici



corpodibacco said

@Chriss, @Johny why, @MilleSabords, @Tigraine and all the others who had problems with this plugin: sorry guys, but these days I just can’t give any support to my plugins, nor update them etc. I know it sucks, and I hate it. But I don’t have the time. I hope I will find it later on…



net gazetesi said

Thanks canım benim



türkiye rehberi said

Thanks.. but, how is that performance ?



litchi said

I found a bug of this plugin described as below:

when the first level menu is generated by a plugin in directory plugin rather than mu-plugin, the address should in the former of
wp-admin/admin.php?page=nextgen-gallery
rather than
http://mmblue.com/wp-admin/nextgen-gallery

But currently this plugin will generate the address in the later former.

I fixed this bug by replace the content

file_exists(ABSPATH . “wp-content/mu-plugins/{$item[2]}”)

with

file_exists(ABSPATH . “wp-content/mu-plugins/{$item[2]}”) ||
file_exists(ABSPATH . “wp-content/plugins/{$item[2]}”)

in file lighteradminmenus.php

hope it useful for you!



litchi said

Sorry the bug above was introduced by me when porting this plugin to WPMU.



Robert said

Hi,
just wanted to let you know that the lam.css of your plugin hides the tabs of the new upload dialog in WP 2.5. It’s an easy fix, just replace the line:

#sidemenu, #dashmenu {display:none}

with these:

#sidemenu, #dashmenu {display:none}
#media-upload-header #sidemenu {display:block}

Thanks for your plugin, very useful!
Robert



corpodibacco said

Robert, thank you, much obliged. Changes committed. New version 2.5.2 is out.



tonchi said

Hey, great plugin!, but I realized that it doesn’t seem to work nice if you change the color scheme of wordpress, I changed the css file to make it work, send me and e-mail and I will send you the file.

Here is a screenshot of the changes:
http://www.uno0uno.net/tonchi/imagenes/admin.jpg

Take care



corpodibacco said

yeah tonchi, I never realized the thing of the color schemes. Now solved. Thanks for the tip!



SE7EN said

Could you please consider to release no-icon version? for faster loading :)



csign said

It does not work correct under WP 2.5!
By clicking on “plugins” … ok.
But then there is no longer a link “dashboard”.
And: the loading of all menues is much too long!



corpodibacco said

csign, it’s weird ’cause “dashboard” should still be there. I only removed the redundant drop down menu below it, you can just click on it and it works normally. can you send me a screenshot of the menu without the link? To corpodibacco @ this domain. Thanks.



Maxwell said

Please check the zip-file - it is 0 bytes large when downloading! Thanx



Fi said

In 2.5.6 i found some Bugs. The Dashboard have no more Drop Down Menü and the color of the Link is not the same as the other Links. The Link Plugin have also not the same color.

Fix it, please!



corpodibacco said

@Fi, there is nothing to fix. The Dashboard does not have a drop down menu because there’s no need for one, it’s redundant. Just click on “dashboard”. And the different colors.. are a choice to give more evidence to the main voices in the menu. you might have noticed that in wordpress 2.5 “settings” “plugins” and “users” are completely apart from that menu.



baron said

thanks for plugin, perfect



Karl Bedford said

Now I have upgraded to WP2.5 this makes the cluttered admin area sooooooooooo much better :)

Thanks a lot
Karl



Karl Bedford said

Just noticed that if you are using role manager plugin there is a exceptionally long menu name that extends past your drop down menu boundaries. See here: http://i27.tinypic.com/ns2sj.jpg

Thanks
Karl



corpodibacco said

#Karl. I hear you but the problem with using ‘min-width’ instead of ‘width’ in the CSS (which would solve the problem) is that it screws up bad many other things, some of which are fixable by sacrificing to design, and others are not fixable because they are in IE. So I don’t know.



corpodibacco said

@karl, wait! I just figured this out… which makes it version 2.5.8 I guess. Of course IE7 does not follow but at this point I don’t care.



Karl Bedford said

Cool, thanks.

Thanks for your time for taking the time to look. I know it’s not a biggie but thought I would mention it.

Kind regards
Karl



Fi said

The options for the the different colors in V. 2.5.7 is perfect :) THanks…



LuciFerAngel said

Thx for the great plugin dude , nice look , just i wanna mention that plugin doesnt show the menu of the Get-Recent-Comments Plugin by Krischan Jodies.

and Thanks Again for The Plugin , Awesome Work



estetik said

Selam :D
elbetde bende wordpress kullanıyorum. woprdpress 2.5 in cıkması ile gelişen admin panelini çok beyendim ve herkezi wordpress kullanmaya davet ediyorum.

nice job, eveybody use it. :D



Karl Bedford said

Just noticed a bug in 2.5, none of the otions that are available in ‘manage’ drop down, if I deactivate your plugin and go to ‘manage’ in the admin area I have 14 sub-menu items. These do not show with the plugin activated.

Kind regards
Karl



corpodibacco said

@Karl: I am not aware of this bug and I can’t reproduce it. Are you sure this is not caused by a conflict with some other plugin?



Karl Bedford said

Ah sorry, it was indeed a conflict with this minor plugin: http://reciprocity.be/cms-menu/ - I can live without this :)

Thanks
Karl



Tom said

Worked beautifully!

Thanks for the effort.



Chris Masse said

Hi, I have just downloaded version 2.5.9 thanks to the One-Click Plugin Updater… which tells me that your plugin won’t signal when a new version of it will be available in the future… Could you look into this tiny issue, please? thanks a lot.
Chris Masse



corpodibacco said

@Chris Masse: I downloaded the plugin you mentioned. You probably refer to the yellow line not appearing next the name of the plugin. I have no idea why that is happening or what it means. It probably has to do with the plugin name having changed this last time around. Anyway I am quite sure this is not a bug of my plugin and it does not depends on how my plugin is made.



Recent Bookmarks said

Thanks for the Plugin!
really nice work :)



trm96 said

Great plug-in! I was using another similar plug-in but I like this one better!



nakp said

hi, its not displaying correctly if menus do not match on screen width, its supposed to display under the tab right?

you can take a look at this http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/7011/dibujofr6.png



corpodibacco said

@nakp: unfortunately at the moment I have no workaound for this problem but I am aware of it and looking into it. Check for future updates–



Callum said

Great plugin, I love it. Ozh has a great feature in his plugin where he adds the little comment number in the speech bubble to his modified menu. Your plugin adds the icons, which I think are nicer, if you also had a similar comment number, you’d have me 100% converted! :)

If I’m not being clear, it looks like a mini version of the new feature in WP 2.5 which shows how many comments are awaiting moderation. I can send a screenshot if you like, just let me know.



corpodibacco said

@Callum: hey, my plugin does that too. You can see it in the screenshots on this page. Isn’t this feature working for you? If you already haven’t, try to unapprove a comment to test it out.



Callum said

@corpodibacco: Aha, I see it, is it new since I updated from 2.6.6 to 2.6.8? The graphic on Ozh’s plugin looks a little better on my screen I think. It also shows even if the comment count is 0, like WordPress, which is a nice feature I think. It’s reassuring to know I’m on top of my comments! :)



corpodibacco said

@Callum: it had that feature since version 2.5. Anyway, as far as I know, Wordpress does hide the count of the awaiting comments when they’re zero. They created a style called count-0 just to apply the display:none rule to it, which I simply imitate…



Callum said

@corpodibacco: Fair enough. Maybe I’ll hack your plugin to use the graphics from Ozh’s plugin! :)



corpodibacco said

@Callum: if you want to always display the count of comments to moderate, just find the count-0 class in my css and comment out the display:none line. If there is request, I might make this an option in the future. About the look of the baloon, I don’t know what to say… sorry you don’t like it :)



Callum said

@corpodibacco: Don’t like is perhaps too strong a term, probably “prefer the other one” would be more accurate! :) Upon reflection, I think I’ll live with your plugin the way it is simply for sake of simplicity! :)



Shobba said

The latest version doesn’t work in my admin panel… There are the main links but no drop down menues. The source code told me:

Dashboardblah class=’lmsidemenu’blahblahblahblahblah class=’lmsidemenu’blah class=’topcurrent’blah class=’lmsidemenu’blah Dashboard

It seems there’s something wrong ^^



Shobba said

Okay, I’ve tested some older versions, the problem exists since 2.6.5! 2.6.1 is working well.



corpodibacco said

@Shobba, you are damn right. It’s a leftover of some testing I did long ago. Question 1: how did I forget this “blah” around? Question 2: how it didn’t cause bigger visible problems? Question 3: How much do I owe you for discovering this?? :)
Thanks, man. I mean, I thought I had closed the bugfixing here. Never say ever. 2.6.9 is out.



corpodibacco said

@Shobba: …wait a minute! you said 2.6.1 works well for you… and the latest doesn’t…?? This means your problem IS NOT with the “blahblah”. You are having another problem… maybe some conflict with some plugin… maybe some ugly bug I have yet to discover… and maybe I could have waited to release this useless bugfix… Holy cow, I feel like an ass!! :)



Shobba said

Hehe, I also often use “blah” for bugfixing and testing :) Hey, you mentioned my name in your Log, that’s cool ;)

Well, I said 2.6.1 is the last one which works well for me, 2.6.5 is the first one I can’t use.
I tried 2.6.9, but there’s no different result… now the source code looks like (hm, how can I post html code… Well, let’s post a picture ^^)
http://web8.charlie316.server4you.de/code.gif

so, there is..
ul id = “dashmenu”
li class=’lm_toplevel’ main-link
ul
li class=’lm_sublevel’ sub-link /li
li class=’lm_sublevel’ sub-link /li
/ul
/li
/ul

is that code right?



corpodibacco said

@Shobba: mmmh, the code is right as far as I can tell. One ul for the whole menu, and uls for each drop down menus. You’re not having a problem with the code, and if you had, it would not be with the HTML but with the CSS. But as I said, my bet is that the conflict is with another plugin. Have you tried disabling some of them and see what happens? If you are running Wordpress in German, also try to temporarily switch to no language, you never know. Blah. :)



Shobba said

http://blog.bull3t.me.uk/projects/ajax-post-save/

deactivated this and your plugin works fine ;) Thank you very much :)



bfnh said

is there any plan on making this optional on a user basis similar to how color schemes work? anybody have a guide/ ideas on how i could make a change like that?



Daishi said

Hi,

Great widget, easier … :D
But … sorry, don’t work with Gengo ->
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gengo/
Message: “Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_currentuserinfo()”
Unfortunately, I can’t change. Tips -> http://wp-multilingual.net/2006/12/10/compatibility/en/
Maybe, you have desire to solve this small shortcoming ;) :D hihi.

Thankfully
Phil



corpodibacco said

@Daishi: I tried but in my experience Gengo works fine with Lighter menus. There is no reason why the two should not work together. I think it is another plugin to cause you problems. Have you tried deactivating some?

@ bfnh: it’s a fair request, I’ll look into it when I’ll have the time.



Callum said

The plugin adds a default icon to pages created through plugins, but not to new pages created by directly editing the $menu and $submenu variables. I use this to create a new menu “Drafts” under Manage. I think adding an additional “default :” case to the swich() statement should do the trick. I’m happy to whip up a patch and submit it if you like. It would also have the advantage of future-proofing the plugin in that any new menus would automatically get the default icon. :)



Callum said

One of your trackbacks has caused the feed for this post to fail validation. I think that’s why my feed reader is rejecting it. :(



corpodibacco said

Hey callum, unfortunately from where I am now it can be difficult to fix bugs… but of course the things you write make sense! I’ll try the effects of the “default” case as soon as I have time for it… can you just tell me, to speed the process(so I don’t have to figure it out by myself :)), how do you edit directly those variables? Have you created a small plugin for yourself or modified the wordpress files? And how?

About the feed validation, I don’t know what the problem could be, I’ll try to look into it but again, I might not be able to fix it from here… sorry about it! :)



corpodibacco said

Callum: I tired that feed address with googlereader and it works without a problem. No rejection! …Could it be something on your end?



Julia said

(I posted this at the forums, I thought I’d post it here as well to see if you could help)

I was attempting to follow this forum advice piece to set up “current mood”, “currently reading”, “current music”, etc fields to go at the end of posts. I followed the directions on the Using Custom Fields codex, went to the Write page, added a new value in the current field and the dropdown menus suddenly stopped working. The links turned blue, there is no drop down menu on rollover, and only links available are the primary menu (Dashboard, Write, Mangage, etc).

I have no idea where to even start looking for the problem. I’ve browsed through the code for hours last night and this morning and can’t find the problem. I deactivated the plugin, reactivated–same problem. I deleted the plugin and reinstalled–same problem. I read through the lightermenu.php and it looks normal, I can’t see any changes from the original file.

In frustration, I did install Ozh’s Admin Drop Down menus; it works fine. I’d like to be able to fix the problem and know how to prevent it in the first place.

I did notice, when I had both Ozh and lightermenu installed, that I now don’t have an “settings” page to edit as well.

Thanks in advance for the help.



corpodibacco said

Julia, it seems like something went wrong with the javascript part of lighter menus… I can’t say why… Using either firefox or Internet explorer you should be able to see what error, at what line the script went wrong. What’s funny is that it should have nothing to do with custom fileds, because custom fields have little to do with the admin interface.. Anyway: try and look at the borwsers’ messages, maybe in IE status bar, or the firefox console, or with the firefox extension “firebug”: and see if you can spot what line is causing the error. This should help us understand…



corpodibacco said

Julia, question: did the problem you mentioned happened when OZh’s plugin and mine were installed at the same time? Cause they shouldn’t be, you know. They would certainly conflict.



Callum said

@corpodibacco: My plugin uses the “_admin_menu” action and edits the $menu and $submenu vars directly. Here’s the change to the code to make the plugin.png image the default one (I can send you the file by email if that’s easier, just drop me a line with your address):
diff -u lighter-menus.php.orig lighter-menus.php
— lighter-menus.php.orig 2008-05-27 03:10:23.000000000 +0100
+++ lighter-menus.php 2008-05-27 03:14:09.000000000 +0100
@@ -898,6 +898,9 @@
case __(’Miscellaneous’):
$i = “bullet_wrench.png”;
break;
+ default :
+ $i = “plugin.png”;
+ break;
}
if (substr($menuitem,0,7) == substr(__(’Authors & Users’),0,7))
{

@corpodibacco: The trackback with the wonky characters has moved down the feed because of newer entries. So now the feed validates ok. It was an issue with a single character. I thought about posting a few comments just to push it off the list! :)



Alex said

Hello,

a very useful plug-and I found it very handy, WP-Admin to each option will take them. The plug, I have just my article in my blog directory and successfully.

The plugin works with WordPress 2.5.1 without further problems, at least now I could see nothing negative.

Regards ..



JamesSpratt.org said

Hey,

Thanks for this, so much neater and quicker.

Minor bug, using IE6 (at work so no choice) I have to choose an item from the dropdown really quickly otherwise the browser closes the dropdown.

Also, minor pedantry here: to perfect your English, the plugin activation blurb should read:

“Creates Drop Down Menus for WordPress Admin Panels. Fast to load, adaptable to color schemes, comes with silk icons, an option page, and a design that fits within the Wordpress 2.5 interface taking the least room possible. By corpodibacco.”

Keep up the great work.

Cheers,

James



Michael Klusek said

Love this plugin. Thanks a lot. Saves a lot of irritation with old design.

Since you are very good a UI design could you look at taking a stab at a redo of the posting window. I hate the current design. Was much more compact and useful in old version.

Here is want I would like:
>Dragable elements for tags, excertps etc for vetical position
>more categories back to right column. I don’t want a scroll field, I need to see all categories in a compact list so I can check off items.
> condense everything vertically. Seems present design for 24 in screen. I work on a laptop with 15.5 in diagonal.
>Those ajaxy pops up have to go. They take up the whole screen for no good reason. Very difficult to work on laptop.

What do you say? Laptop users of the world are waiting for a solution.

MK



Nyssa said

Thanks for the great plugin. Activated and works like a charm. Definitely one of the more useful admin plugins. :)



ovidiu said

hi there,
I jsut upgraded my wpmu isntall from 1.3 to 1.5.1 and activated your plugin for testing. all works fine, except if I go to the themes page !? then the menu disappears, and the page looks scrambled.
anyone else experiencing this?



李珂 like said

very good



ovidiu said

also another plugin breaks using wpmu with your plugin: Admin Management Xtended from: http://www.schloebe.de/ could you maybe look into this?



mercime said

Thank you for this plugin. Loving it a lot. Version 2.7 of your plugin works well in my WordPress 2.5.1 and WordPressMU 1.5.1 installations.
Peace.



muhabbet said

thanks



Michael Klusek said

Love this plugin but it is flacky. I am using WP 2.5.1 and some themes/plugins cause drop down menus to not work. On theme ‘brightness’ http://www.dailywp.com/brightness-wordpress-theme/
custom setting are not reachable when this is active. WHen I disable everything OK. I don’t know what wp hooks you are using but it appears that conflicts with a decent number of plugins/themes arise.

THis really should be part of next release of WP core code so it can be properly vetted.

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