Posted by febbraro on June 3, 2009 at 12:11pm
Admin 2.x
The admin module provides UI improvements to the standard Drupal admin interface. The 2.x branch focuses on the following goals:
- Sustainability - avoid excessive overrides of code, markup, and interface strings to ensure the module keeps the workload overhead on the maintainers and community to a minimum.
- Pluggable/extensible architecture - ensure that admin serves as a starting point for other modules in contrib to implement admin interfaces.
- Expose Drupal's strengths and downplay its weaknesses where possible. An honest approach to the underlying framework and architecture of Drupal will be less confusing to the user down the road.
Admin is not an original work - many of its decisions have had direct influences from other work in the community:
- Administration menu, Daniel Kudwien (sun)
- Navigate, Chris Shattuck (chrisshattuck)
- d7ux, Mark Boulton & Leisa Reichelt
Admin 2.x: Installation
- Install & enable the module.
- The admin toolbar should appear automatically - you no longer need to alter your theme.
- Admin makes a permission available that allows only properly permissioned users to make use of the admin toolbar. User with the
use admin toolbarpermission will be able to use the toolbar. - You can configure the layout, position, and enabled tools for the admin toolbar on
admin/settings/admin.
Admin 2.x: Themes
The 2.x branch no longer recklessly smuggles a theme into your install through a module. You can use admin with the theme of your choice. The "slate" theme previously included with admin has been discontinued -- instead, our admin theme and icon design work continues in Rubik.
http://code.developmentseed.org/rubik
Admin 1.x installation
- Install & enable the module.
- To make use of the admin header within your theme, you must add the following line to your theme's page.tpl.php file immediately following the
<body>tag:<?php if (!empty($admin)) print $admin; ?>
Contributors
Young Hahn young@developmentseed.org
AJ Ashton aj@developmentseed.org
Project Information
- Maintenance status: Unknown
- Development status: Unknown
- Reported installs: 31558 sites currently report using this module. View usage statistics.
- Last modified: April 21, 2011
