Admin Drop Down Menu Fixed

Admin Drop Down MenuWhat do you use for enhancing the navigation in your admin center? The ancient thing, Admin Drop Down Menu by Ozh, has always been my choice. This plugin is simple yet very useful, it saves you a lot of clicks! But the plugin was designed for WordPress 1.x, and is too old to get along well with others nowadays.

For instance, if I activate too many plugins that have option pages under the "Options" tab, the "tail" of sub-menu items annoyingly protrudes from the left border (see screenshot). And the CSS style doesn't suit the updated menu in WordPress 2.x (see screenshot). I fixed the errors mentioned above, now it looks beautiful in my admin center (see screenshot). If you also want a copy of my fixed version, you can download it here. But please note this is not an official release.

A couple days ago I discovered Admin Supermenu by Chris Messina, a jQuery version of Admin Drop Down Menu, but it is still buggy. I think until Chris fixes the bug under the post-editing page and implement some more improvements, I will not switch to his jQuery version.

btw I already tried Admin Drop Down Menus, but it wasn't what I expected, though it exactly says the word "drop-down".

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  1. Chris Messina left a comment

    December 1st, 2007 12:24 am

    If you come up with any improvements, do let me know! I'd love for my plugin to work better -- it's kind of my first attempt at my own jQuery plugin, so a lot of this stuff is new to me!

    And yes, Ozh's work inspired mine, but I wanted something that didn't use custom Javascript and that also fixed the CSS issues you mentioned.

    I had tried the Admin Drop Down Menus which was nice, but I just couldn't stand the visual appearance, hence Admin Supermenu. ;)

  2. Grey left a comment

    December 2nd, 2007 6:27 am

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  3. David left a comment

    December 19th, 2007 4:03 am

    Let me know if you find something that works. I need something like this for another project.

  4. Michael left a comment

    December 19th, 2007 5:30 am

    Nice fix, I've tried to fix it myself but failed, thanks dude.

  5. Ian Stewart left a comment

    January 3rd, 2008 3:55 am

    The WordPress Admin Bar plugin

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-admin-bar/

    Uncomment two lines in the plugin and it will replace your admin menu with flawless drop-down menus. I think it's exactly what you're looking for.

  6. Paul Gray left a comment

    January 21st, 2008 11:24 am

    I started out using Ozh's plugin and came across the same problem. I then swapped to Yellow Swordfish's plugin and have been using it since. Was wondering what exactly you didn't like about it?

  7. LEMONed left a comment

    January 21st, 2008 11:56 am

    @Paul Gray: Hard to say, I just dont like it. But anyway, both of them are gonna be wasted in 2 months when 2.5 is out.

  8. estetik plastik left a comment

    January 25th, 2008 7:33 am

    Very nice information. Helpful for me.

  9. Evan left a comment

    January 28th, 2008 6:26 pm

    貌似还是不支持IE7哦

  10. estetik left a comment

    February 8th, 2008 3:26 pm

    Great blog page. Very useful.

  11. Omi Azad left a comment

    February 21st, 2008 8:04 am

    Wonderful. I really love it...

    A similar plugin is available at http://extjswordpress.net/category/plugin/

    সত্যি আমি এটা খুবই পছন্দ করেছি...

  12. nimd4 left a comment

    March 17th, 2008 9:38 pm

  13. Dib left a comment

    May 11th, 2008 6:49 am

    I don't like the new admin panel on wordpress

  14. Samuel SEO Montreal left a comment

    June 6th, 2008 3:04 am

    not like @dlb, I personaly love the new WordPress 2.5 admin panel UI. I'm gonna try this plugin too, seems to be pretty sleak!

  15. Paul left a comment

    June 12th, 2008 6:48 pm

    Just installing, let you know how I get on with it!

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    June 12th, 2008 7:23 pm

    installed it, works like a charm, awesome.

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    July 12th, 2008 8:08 pm

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  18. sesli sohbet left a comment

    July 26th, 2008 11:11 pm

    not like @dlb, I personaly love the new WordPress 2.5 admin panel UI. I'm gonna try this plugin too, seems to be pretty sleak!

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    July 26th, 2008 11:12 pm

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    July 26th, 2008 11:12 pm

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  29. burun estetigi left a comment

    October 4th, 2008 12:39 pm

    Very nice tip on Admin Drop Down Menu. Now we have a very nice menu options. Thanks a lot.

  30. kop left a comment

    October 19th, 2008 6:44 pm

    Hard to say, I just dont like it. But anyway, both of them are gonna be wasted in 2 months when 2.5 is out.

  31. Plastik cerrahi left a comment

    October 22nd, 2008 10:22 pm

    Currently looking for a change of template and i think this could be the one

  32. rap left a comment

    October 29th, 2008 9:12 pm

    Just installing.
    Thanks.

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    November 3rd, 2008 7:59 pm

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    November 26th, 2008 10:30 pm

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    December 12th, 2008 4:36 pm

    Chris, the Google sitemap plugin is working, but I can’t seem to get the xhtml sitemap page to display any links. I’ve been over and over the instructions, so I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong.

  38. Rap left a comment

    December 26th, 2008 2:38 pm

    Nice fix, I've tried to fix it myself but failed, thanks dude.

  39. Tom Aquinas left a comment

    January 5th, 2009 12:05 am

    Installed and works!

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    January 28th, 2009 10:11 pm

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    January 30th, 2009 7:49 am

    thank you for site .

    If you come up with any improvements, do let me know! I'd love for my plugin to work better -- it's kind of my first attempt at my own jQuery plugin, so a lot of this stuff is new to me!

    And yes, Ozh's work inspired mine, but I wanted something that didn't use custom Javascript and that also fixed the CSS issues you mentioned.

    I had tried the Admin Drop Down Menus which was nice, but I just couldn't stand the visual appearance, hence Admin Supermenu

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    February 11th, 2009 3:22 am

    Nice fix, I've tried to fix it myself but failed, thanks dude.

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  114. prefabrik evler left a comment

    July 23rd, 2009 1:00 am

    I started out using Ozh's plugin and came across the same problem. I then swapped to Yellow Swordfish's plugin and have been using it since. Was wondering what exactly you didn't like about it?

  115. betsson24 left a comment

    July 26th, 2009 4:20 pm

    And yes, Ozh's work inspired mine, but I wanted something that didn't use custom Javascript and that also fixed the CSS issues you mentioned.