Textpattern Admin theme

This gap is left for the 'updated, saved' etc notifications. I may try and move this elsewhere

clever man.

I just do a lot of long google searches! ;o)

This is all the same, apart from fluid

Inspired by Jeremy Koempels recent TXP admin fiddlings, and the fact that I'm setting up another Textpattern based site for a client. I love the clean TXP admin look, but the tabs have never been my taste, and I like to customise it per client.

I did try and make it a CSS only theme, but there were a couple of things I couldn't accomplish with the css skin alone. So, seeing as I had to fiddle with the php files, I added the link to the site bascampy stylee, and removed the 'view site' tab (which never made sense to me, as you don't view the site in an admin tab). This pulls in your settings for Site Name and Site URL.

The layout is also fluid now. Which you may hate! It breaks on resize too.

Sadly, if you use the hpw_admincss to apply the custom css, for some reason, it doesn't theme the plugins tab. It does if you add the css to the textpattern.css file though.

So, here are the files if you want to download it. Feel free to alter, improve, grill, fry etc.

(Requires TXP 4.05)

txpadmin.zip

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Comments

drewm says:

Ooo!
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

placenamehere says:

looks purty
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Brian Warren says:

Ooooh, pretty! Well done mate.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Hivelogic says:

I need to get onboard with skinning camino, I guess.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Luke Dorny (luxuryluke) says:

…and you find this time where…? Nice!
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Jon Hicks says:

Luke - couple of hours tops!
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

MissBlythe says:

Wow! I love it!!
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

iblastoff says:

very nice! gonna try it now!
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Simon Collison says:

Looks like Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain's now official ExpressionEngine control panel theme for 1.6! Oh my oh my...
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Makenosound says:

Nice one, Jon. It looks great. Now, if only I was still using TXP ...
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Jon Hicks says:

@colly - it does, the header colour and tab style is similar. It also looks like Basecamp (or at least my basecamp).
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Michael Grinstead says:

Very nice.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Simon Collison says:

Not a criticism of course Jon, just erm, well, I noticed. But then we did nearly tempt you towards the light recently...
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

'ju:femaiz says:

Nice to see someone still loving textpattern. Mind you I'm awaiting the next release with a js library so I can get my event manager plugin updated to a much nicer version.

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Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Chris Fonnesbeck says:

I notice your RSS bookmarklets: what are you using to read feeds these days? NewsFire? NNW? Bloglines?
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Yong Hwee says:

Pretty cool looking!
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

oneighturbo says:

nice work hicks. clean. readable.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

iblastoff says:

ju:femaiz: txp 4.0.5 comes with jquery
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Matt Robin says:

Jon: Your Admin theme looks better than my own effort (that I've been tweaking now and then in my spare time)...

I especially like what you've done with the site link at the top - nice touch.

You might be interested in my attempt as well....(possibly/possibly not?!)....see here: www.flickr.com/photos/mattrobin/992995496/
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

zeusbox says:

Yum yum... going to get this bad ass theme installed real quick ;)
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Jon Hicks says:

@Colly - Ha! I think there's room for both in my life ;o)
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Samuel Clark says:

I Like !
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

asthmatic says:

nice work.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Gonçalo Dumas says:

thanks a bunch!
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

JE Vasshaug says:

Wow! Very very nice
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

superdeluxe says:

Yeah! This is what I waited for... no more reasons to use any other blogging software! ;-)
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Jon Hicks says:

Everyone who's used this, please download again - I've posted a new version, that fixes some bugs and improves the header.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

qrayg says:

Hot!!! Great job, Mr. H. Reminds me of Symphony just a little bit.

I was having a little trouble with the input widths on the categories page and a few others. Here's how I fixed it:

#event_form table#edit,
#event_form table#list,
#event_form input#title,
#event_form textarea,
#event_article table#edit,
#event_article table#list,
#event_article input#title,
#event_article textarea,
#event_page table#edit,
#event_page table#list,
#event_page input#title,
#event_page textarea {
width: 100% !important;
}

input.edit {
width: 200px !important;
}

Otherwise everything else it sweet!
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Marko Mihelcic says:

OK jeeees this Rocks the sock!!!!!wooohooO!!!
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Viking KARWUR says:

:) cool... thanks...
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

-sam says:

Very Pretty Jon!
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

jauhari says:

Sound Perfect ;)
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

eyevariety says:

sooo hot! looks like expression engine :)
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

mathewh says:

is the latest version of camino faster than safari 3?
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

MrQwest says:

Jon, Your kinda spesh at this skinning malarkey aren't you?

This is very nice, thanks :)
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

evalottchen says:

this is really beautiful! thanks a lot. :)

just one thing:
i had the problem that the pagetop table didn't span the whole width, so I added a width:100% in line 25 of your admin.css.
If anybody has the same problem, this should fix it.

table#pagetop {
background: #000 url(txp_img/bkgd.gif) repeat-x left bottom !important;
width:100%;
}
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

MrQwest says:

Jon, Just a quick question, hoping you can help.

Is there anyway with CSS that you can shrink the textboxes where you type new articles / edit pages/css/forms etc?

I've got a laptop with a wide screen. the biggest resolution it'll go is 1220x880 or something similar. When i use textpattern, i generally need to scroll down to save / edit pages.

Is there away to shrink that textbox so the submit / save buttons are shown on the screen without the need to scroll?

Hope you can help :)
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

andrew.swihart says:

Thanks Jon, this makes Textpattern even more of a joy to use!
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

Joshua Brewer says:

This is great. I was messing around with Jeremy's stuff too, but I like this alot.... in fact, here is my mod for me and the wife's new site Admin.

Thank you, Mr. Hicks. You are a fine chap.
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

decavolt says:

It's been said a million times already, but this is a rockin theme Jon. I love it.
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

Pketh says:

Hey Jon,
I like your site and now I like your flickr stream :D
question tho, I've been using camino for a while now, and I could never figure out how to make my bookmark bar all iconless and sleek like yours. how did you do it ?
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

Jon Hicks says:

here: pimpmycamino.com/parts/AsceticBar
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

raynebair says:

I installed and love this theme, but I use Windows at work (I'm a software developer, no choice) and the fluid textboxes on the left sidebar in the write tab get really long and make the middle textboxes all squished up. :(

Otherwise I love this theme.
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

:: rafa says:

Excellent work!
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

dujnoyl says:

This is so great, thank you sir! :)

One minor fix, when you select the plugins menu (Admin > Plugins), the new admin.css file isn't linked so you get the old interface (at least it wasn't for me).

For those looking for an easy fix it just add the following code in the head of txplib_head.php (textpattern > lib > txplib_head.php):

style type="text/css">
@import url("css.php?n=admin");
/style

(Of course open and close the style tag properly).

Thanks again, this made things easier to use not to mention better looking. You are the man!
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

Jon Hicks says:

Yeah, this is a plugin problem - in the end I just added the new css to the textpattern.css file, but thanks for your solution!
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

Marko Mihelcic says:

@dujnoyl - yeah I noticed this also. tnx.
Btw. it also changes the main login page so that's a neat tip.
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

michaelkpate says:

Of all the revised versions I have seen over the years, this is the first one that I actually thought looked good enough to implement
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

jachi says:

loverly
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )