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

    Thought you might like to know that you've been featured in today's twitterku: http://wellingtongrey.net/twitterku/blog/2007/12/01/131/

  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

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