Brendan has now made this WordPress 2 compatible.
Ive made myself a useful little admin strip which I thought Id share with any interested parties. If youre logged in and are an admin it will display the little strip you see above to allow easy access to some commonly used admin pages. Take the admin strip code and either paste it, or use php to include it (which is what I do) into your template - mine is in my header file as its on every page, and its just below body >. The take the CSS and paste that into your CSS file - customise at will. That should be it.
Im not sure if anyone else had this issue, but the links within the final block about posts, comments and categories didnt work for me. Rather foolishly I just stripped the code from the admin files and never actually tested the links. I have updated the plugin and separate code to fix this.
Also, as Im once again testing Spam Karma on my site, Ive added a link to the admin page and also a number for the recently snagged spam, here is the code for that, the first block goes with the $numposts, $numcomms and $numcats code (just after it is fine) and the second block just goes wherever you want (Im not so sure this works that well really, but hey give it a go).
Like the fool I am, no sooner had I loaded Spam Karma than i though, "Hmm, Ill give Akismet a go" - so I did. Heres the code for displaying the spam count and linking to the admin page for Akismet. I just noticed theres a plugin which allows Spam Karma and Akismet to live together happily, should you wish to try that (Im giving it a go).
If anyone else has any customisations such as this which they feel would be useful shared then please post a link to your site with an explanation.
Very nice, this would make a cool plugin
If I knew how to make plugins I might have given it a try. As it is, feel free anyone to plugin-ize it and re-distribute at will.
Well done. Is this the first time this has been done? I realize that wordpress.com has the top bar, but it doesn't quite have the same functionality.
If this is indeed "a first", I'm surprised. Guess people need to start thinking out of the box about blogging again eh?
Again, well done. And I could make it a plugin if I had the time, but alas - I do not. Look forward to someone else picking it up and running with it.
Nice.
But there's probably something similar - Matt's Read WP Admin Bar 2.
I wasnt aware of that, do you know of any screen grabs of it in action anywhere?
There is one of it in action
meh. Call me a megalomaniac if you like (although I suspect thatd be the wrong word) but I prefer mine :-P But then mines not a plugin :-o
Btw, the one you see in my screen grab has a lovely transparent png background which I thought would be best not bundled, so if you want that look - thats how its done.
I've already modified mine to include a lil' WP logo, link to akismet spam (including count) and a link to the support forums...
Screenshot
If I knew how to pulginize it, I would, but alas...
Looks nice.
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There you go.
Enjoy.
Wow, thank you very much Ben, Ill update this post later.
Very handy! I installed the plugin version right away. I love it! Now if I can only fix the problem my blog has with remembering that I'm admin...
Wow Matt, you are my new king! What a great plugin, I'm very impressed man, nice job!
Very slick. Installed and now, I too, am root!
Btw, the reason I have the theme switcher in there is because if youre working on a theme you can use this to switch to it and only you as admin see the theme. I find it very useful
It's most super now! Glad I could help.
Very nice, thanks for the work on this.
Any idea on how I might keep the theme switcher from showing beneath the other text in the admin strip which doubles the hight of the strip--any way to keep it all in line?
If you go into the themeswitcher plugin and look for li > and /li > - (without the spaces within the brackets) they appear either side of the drop down code, just remove them.
It might take a little hunting, but not much. I couldnt seem to use CSS to stop it from doing just that very thing.
This is excellent. Now I can see instantly if I have pending comments!
Thanks!
More Control...
Today, Matthew at somefoolwitha.com released a little WordPress hack that creates a nice little floating admin bar at the bottom of your pages (assuming your a logged in admin of course).
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Admin Strip...
Admin Strip ist ein nettes kleines Wordpress-Plugin, welches für den angemeldeten Admin am unteren Browserfensterrand(tm) die wichtigsten Admin-Funktionen und -Informationen einblendet. Sehr praktisch!
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I love it! It's just beautiful. Now I can get rid of the Admin link up top. Just in the early stages of getting my blog going. Wordpress makes it so fun and easy. Thank you everyone for contributing.
awesome job with this admin bar. definitely a lot more conveniant than having to enter the dashboard and navigating from there.
10 points for massive cleverness!
I won't be using it myself, since I have bookmarks and favelets all over, but I think this'll be a good thing to install on client wordpress websites, since the clients I've given wordpress seem to have trouble understanding the basics of computers. Handy with this tool!
[...] After realizing that the admin strip I just installed makes the strip visible to the entire public, I’m not so liking it any more. Tony suggested this similar admin-strip plugin - It does indeed make the strip invisible for non-admin users, and includes Theme Switcher functionality which is useful if you’re developing and testing a few themes concurrently. [...]
I will use that, forever ;)
I want to change so that when I logout, I'm forwarded to the domain.com instead of the WP login page. I've found the logout function in the wp_logout.php and it include a redirect class - but I cannot find where this is changed! Anyone?
[...] this looks pretty damned cool.i really like the idea of having simple access to my admin panel, without having a second tab open in Firefox. somefoolwitha.com » Bow before me, for I am roothttp://www.somefoolwitha.com/2006/02/01/bow-before-me-for-i-am-root/Ive made myself a useful little admin strip which I thought Id share with any interested parties. If youre logged in and are an admin it will display the little strip you see above to allow easy access to some commonly used admin pages. Take the admin strip code and either paste it, or use php to include it (which is what I do) into your template - mine is in my header file as its on every page, and its just below < body >. The take the CSS and paste that into your CSS file - customise at will. That should be it. [...]
i got this running on my offline blawg.
i realy dig it man. good job!
i just gotta mess with the CSS to get it to align to the bottom of all browsers. :)
Great plugin. Simple, useful - way to go!
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