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Wordpress like dashboard for admin area
I have a customer that's mainly using the site to share pictures, moderate a forum, and post blogs. The current theme (even the RootCandy theme) is to complicated. I just want a simple, clean area they can log into and see all relevant statistics (recent forum post, incoming links, unique visitors), create blog post, and moderate content (post, comments, incoming links, etc.) essentially, just like Wordpress. I'm up to my wits ends on this and the client is getting angry about the delays. How much would it cost me to hire out someone to create this for me? I'm sure it's some sort of views and panels combination, but I give up, I need to move onto new projects and get the client trained and I can't wait until Drupal 7 to be released.
Thanks,
Andy
Why don't you add a separate
Why don't you add a separate Menu block and gives only the necessary items to the menu?
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Aries
To be honest, I'm getting a
To be honest, I'm getting a little burned out trying to figure this out. Do you have a tutorial or example somewhere on how to do this?
- admin/build/menu - Add a
- admin/build/menu
- Add a new menu
- Add new items to this menu, like: "Add new story", url: "node/add/story"
- Because you added a new menu, it will automatically appear under admin/build/block
- Place this block in a sidebar or wherever you'd like to see
That's all :)
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Aries
I get it, thanks, however
I get it, thanks, however it's not what I'm really looking for, but thank you for the suggestion. I need to be able to make it look something like this, or close to it:
http://techbays.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/20081207-950am-wordpress-das...
A simple dashboard where the content creators can login and see all the relevant information that's going on with the site, without all the other stuff on the regular admin page. If you know anyone that can possibly develop something close, please pass them my way.
Thanks
i think you need
i think you need http://drupal.org/project/homebox . You can use views module for manage the content
Thanks, doesn't really work
Thanks, doesn't really work with theme I have (960 robots), and it's not really what I'm looking for. I really want a dashboard/admin theme that works like wordpress and cuts out all the unnecessary mess of the regular admin page. However thank you for the suggestion, it might come in handy if I ever touch Drupal again. If you know anyone willing to develop something like this, pass them my way.
Module combining panels and views for site management dashboard
I was doing a panels presentation for Pacific northwest Drupal summit and had one of the participants point me to her module which does almost exactly what you want.
http://drupal.org/project/total_control
I would be happy to help customize it if you need.
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Angus Pratt
Poet, Consultant, Web Designer
http://anguspratt.ca
(604)351-6747
I also may want quotes on
I also may want quotes on actually porting this over to Wordpress if anyone is interested. It's going to take me forever now to port this to a wordpress site, and I'm not sure if I can achieve the same functionality of the Drupal site on Wordpress on my own. So if you feel you help me customize the new site to include some of the community functions of Drupal on Wordpress, please email me. The main parts are:
The blog
photo-sharing section
Ability for users to sign up and create a custom profile
forum and advice
some integration with their e-commerce site (just links and ads to their products)
Ability to create polls
Ability to create mailing lists
Facebook connect integration
I can do much of the design work and I can probably port a similar design over, but I need help timewise with some of the more difficult parts that Wordpress doesn't come standard out of the box with (forums, polls, general community stuff). I'm sure there are plugins that can be customized, but I'm really short on time. I'm also going to post this job on Elance, so let me know if you want to work through their system.
Thanks,
Andy
Why not just use Drupal?
If you need these functions, why not just use Drupal?
http://www.openingsource.com
http://sichuanteachers.org