How to simplify your life with a quick admin block
I found that I was spending way too much time going through menus to find the half dozen or so admin items I was after. Here's what I did:
Create New Block:
www.yoursite.com/admin/build/block/add
Give it a title and add this to the body
<a href="/admin/build/database">Database</a>
<a href="/admin/content/types">Content Types</a>
<a href="/admin/content/node">Content</a>
<a href="/admin/content/backup_migrate">Backup</a>
<a href="/admin/build/modules">Modules</a>
<a href="/admin/build/block">Blocks</a>
<a href="/admin/build/views">Views</a>Select Full HTML as input type. Set it up to appear wherever you want. Naturally, you want to disable it when you are done developing but it's handy when you are first setting up a site.
URL path-aware admin shourtcuts (requires PHP)
If you happen to have not Drupal at website's root, for example at http://yoursite.com/drupal_path/, this snippet may do the trick:
<?php
$url = $GLOBALS['base_url'];
$links = array(
"Database" => "/admin/build/database",
"Content Types" => "/admin/content/types",
"Content" => "/admin/content",
"Backup" => "/admin/content/backup_migrate",
"Modules" => "/admin/build/modules",
"Blocks" => "/admin/build/block",
"Views" => "/admin/build/views"
);
foreach($links as $title => $path)
{
echo '<a href="' . $url . $path . '">' . $title . '</a><br >';
}
?>