Administration Plugin Suggestion
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Jul 21, 2008 13:43
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Hey all, I would like to suggest a feature to implement in the Framework that will allow the Admin to turn on/off the tabs for plugins. At the moment when you go to Administration and are presented with a list of plugins, I think there should be an extra column with a checkbox to hide/show the plugin info. That way, once a plugin is configured it can be moved out of sight by selecting not to display it. I say this because I think that we may end up quite soon with a list of tabs for plugins that start to 'break' the page because there are too many installed on a site.... Thoughts? |
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Jul 22, 2008 03:23
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I wondered if there could be a dedicated "plugins" tab, and all the plugins could be "sub-tabs" to that one. Maybe not the best idea, but I see the same problem looming as you do, Andy! It will need some sort of thought by ... Philippe! :) Or someone. |
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Jul 22, 2008 08:58
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Hehehe, this is easy to do. I can modify the theme, so when you rollover a tab named Plugin, a dropdown menu would appear with all the plugins activated :P . I've made that on one of my administration themes, as I have MANY plugins activated. |
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Jul 22, 2008 09:07
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Nice one Bd -- is that sort of like a Plugins plugin? What a concept! :) |
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Jul 30, 2008 04:40
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@Bdesign - If I understand you correctly, your solution would load all tabs in memory and then use a combination of CSS/HTML/Javascript to create a dropdown menu etc? This is offcourse a very nice method, but that probably wouldn't prevent one plugin from making the rest of the plugin config tabs unavailable when it crashes. For example, I don't use SQLite nor the plugin but it was loaded into the admin section anyway, crashed and prevented me from reaching the rest of my admin sections/plugins. Personally, I'd prefer a method which loads each plugin seperately and simply doesn't display a plugin's config section when frog is not able to load that plugin. More difficult to implement(?) but much more stable. Also, while we're on the subject of plugins... ;-) I'd like the admin section to have an option to turn on/off a "dial home" function of the plugins. This function would allow a plugin to check for the availability of a new update. |