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QuikPik 3 admin interface menu
The 3rd version of the QuikPik menu was designed to allow for more customization of the menu as well as the entire txp admin interface. As I was building a site for a friend, I thought it would be nice if the admin interface’s color scheme matched that of the site. That and a few other things got me thinking…
Here are the new features:
- The menu now uses a style that is saved in the txp database and assigned to the menu as you would a normal section.
- The quikpik stylesheet is read after the textpattern.css allowing you to override any style in the admin interface.
- The menu is now based on the Son of Suckerfish Dropdowns method.
QuikPik 3.0 Details and Instructions
There are 3 themes included with the menu. One is the standard yellow/red scheme, one is based on my site and the other is for the site that I’m building which uses the Fortuitous theme by Chris McLeod.
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Thanks so much! I have been changing textpattern.gif in the header to show some change when I shift from one txp site to the next to avoid inadvertantly making a change to the wrong site. This will make my life so much easier!
Jamie
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Fantastic, Rob. I’ll definately get working on some backend styles to compliment the new system, once I get a handle on what does what.
Bravo.
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Nice one Rob. I like the idea of popping the CSS into the database. One minor point. Everything is working fine but I noticed that Quikpik creates a “quikpik” section in TXP when it intalls. As far as I am aware this isn’t needed so I’ve deleted it.
Stuart
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You should see if something like this could get integrated into the default TXP code. It seems to me that this is much more beyond a plugin.
Can’t wait to try it out.
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thebombsite –
The quikpik section is only necessary if you want to be able to switch stylesheets easily. By default, the style called “quikpik” will be used but using the quikpik section, you have the ability to assign a different stylesheet.
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You see! There is light at the end of the tunnel!! Thanks for enlightening me Rob. Now it all seems clear. I do say seems though.
Stuart
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ok… this was kinda cool, but I would actually like to uninstall it. How do I do that?
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To uninstall just restore your original txplib_head.php file. Then you can delete the section and styles. But why would you want to do that?
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> wilshire wrote:
> To uninstall just restore your original txplib_head.php file. Then you can delete the section and styles. But why would you want to do that?
Eh… I am just so used to the old interface that it didn’t seem natural. Nothing is bad about the program. In fact, I think it was a great idea.
Last edited by bleveck (2005-02-13 18:27:14)
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There is a way that you can see both the quikpik menu and the standard tabs. Just remove this section from the css.
<code>
/* ^^ TXP TABS ^^ */
.txptabs { display: none; }
/* ^^ TXP TABS ^^ */
</code>
Best of both worlds…
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By the way this version does not work with rc2 as far as I can tell. I have tried three seperate installs:(
Jamie
EDIT: I have tried several different combinations of installing this fab upgrade on an rc2 install to no avail. Has anyone else gotten this to work with a latter build? I will keep trying. But I either get a “made section” ok, but son of suckerfish dropdowns failure or a “failed to create section” message.
Last edited by soulship (2005-02-15 02:44:13)
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