Best Modules/Themes to create a wordpress like dashboard for content editors?
So this was my first attempt at setting up a Drupal site for a client. For the most part I think the site looks awesome, has way more features and is a lot more interactive than a typical Wordpress blog. However, the users are very confused on using the site to create content and perform general admin tasks.
I would like to make an administration dashboard for users that just need to login, check comments, trackbacks, write blogs, etc. that looks more like Wordpress. Just a simple, clean interface for them to use, without all the other confusing elements that they will never touch. Drupal is still a learning process for me, I saw someone mentioned panels could do something like this, but I'm confused on how I would make an admin-interface with it.
Does anyone have any recommendations on which admin-themes and modules would best achieve the goal of making it look sort of like Wordpress?
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likely panels and views.modules
There is also the admin.module which seems to be gaining marketshare.
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I like the rootcandy admin theme and usually create custom admin type pages with views and views_bulk_operations.
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Is there a guide somewhere to
Is there a guide somewhere to how to make a custom admin type page using views or panels? On pretty lost on doing anything with views and documentation seems to be limited.
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get the advanced help.module and check out the views documentation that already exists in the documentation area.
There are also quite a few videos that can be located with google.
ultimately you create the view, you put it in your admin path and at that point only the admin has access to it.
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true that but I usually also have an 'administrator' role (which was added to core for d7, yay!) and also make sure those views are only available to that role.
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