By Wernight on

Hi,

I'm thinking if Drupal is right for me. I saw many of the pages that should answer that question but didn't find anything related to admin front-end customization. The front-end for administrator is too complex, I'd like to make a light version myself so the admin-users can add content very easilly. Would you know if that is possible (without changing the whole application)? Using hooks?

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Rowanw’s picture

Rowanw commented

I'm not sure what you mean by "front-end administration", do you mean the back end? Do you know about the administration theme chooser at Administer > Site configuration > Administration theme?

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psynaptic commented

As mentioned you can select a different theme for your admin section but you can also restrict access to each different part of Drupal. When you do this links from the menus disappear so the site naturally becomes more basic. You can also create new menus, move menu items around and position blocks differently for you than for your users.

There is a lot that can be accomplished with just the core release.

Wernight’s picture

Wernight commented

I mean the back-end, yes.

I see, so themes allow to reorder and rename some items. That's already good. I don't understand what you mean by "just the core release".

What I'd like is to let the user provide for example the URL to an image, and then automatically ask Drupal to generate a new page in a specific section with some content and that image. In a way, something like filling the back-end forms from a PHP script to generate content or more.

Thank for your answers, I'll definitely take a deeper look in how to achieve that.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

Try Nerdalistic: http://drupal.org/project/nerdalistic