Admin menu is another one of those modules that I don't know how I'd live without! Before discovering it, I found Drupal a pain in the butt to administer. Reloading the page each time I tried to find something in the admin menu really slows things down.
For those of us that administer more than one web site, Admin menu is especially useful and a time-saver. It makes it easy to administer any site without spending too much time thinking about it.
To enable the Admin menu, download install the module as usual and then, after that, go to the "blocks" admin section of your site. This will automatically install and display the Admin menu for you.
If your Admin menu simply isn't showing up, make sure you have code like this in your template, right after the body tag:
<?php echo $header; ?>
Some templates come configured that way already but knowing this little tidbit of advice could save you some frustration when you find that, no matter what you do, your Admin menu simply won't work.
It takes some getting used to but you only have to go through that once and then all your sites will be easy to manage and administer.
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sun (not verified) | Wed, 02/13/2008 - 06:11
Please note, that Drupal Administration Menu now needs
print $closure;
right in front of the closing
BODYtag.Daniel F. Kudwien
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»Norio De Sousa | Wed, 02/13/2008 - 06:14
Thanks Dan :) I found that out this weekend when I installed a newer version and couldn't, for the life of me, figure out why it wasn't working :P
The new admin menu looks even sexier than before and is way more stable. I love it!
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