A Bit Blue 2 (admin)
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Not a port but a style for the Textpattern Admin or “backend” as some like to call it.
After much prodding in the ribs from Matthew over at Squared Eye to produce a “branded” admin interface for him I continued to work on the resulting design until I ended up with what you see above.
I started with Dan Hoy’s interpretation which I liked because of it’s bolder presentation and lack of images and just kept going from there.
I’ve added the select box back into the header.
The login details and logout button at the top can be set to “display: none;” if you don’t want them and the same items in the footer are commented-out so you can bring them back.
The site name in the graphic is set to pick up the site_name directly from your install. If you prefer, you can create a logo to place in the /theme/a_bit_blue2 directory and the CSS for using it is included but commented-out.
With one or two exceptions all the major modifications are placed at the bottom of the CSS as “over-rides” so if you don’t like something you can comment it out and bring back the original styling.
This style requires Textpattern 4.2.0 or above.
There is a Change Log over at Textgarden.
As far as I can tell it works in FF3, Safari4 (Win), Opera 10, Google Chrome and IE8. (IE6 and IE7 users really ought to upgrade. Microsoft has gone to the trouble of producing a browser that actually works very well so use it. If you can’t be bothered then neither can I.)
There is probably other stuff I’ve forgotten to mention.
for whatever reason, the download link here just gives me a blank page.
the link you provided in the forums works fine though.
Two questions:
1) How do I get 4.0.6 r2758? I tried downloading svn and only got 4.0.5 r2757.
2) What changes need to be made for this theme to work when my textpattern installation is not at the web root?
Right now, the only part that works for me are the blue ‘view’ tabs. No other formatting of any kind appears correctly.
Hi Jason,
If you have just downloaded from SVN then you have r2758, it’s just that the last revision was to the history.txt file so it isn’t picked up internally by TXP admin as this isn’t one of Textpattern’s working files, and it is 4.0.6 but isn’t set yet however if you check in the /textpattern/update/ directory you will see that it is there. The official release shouldn’t be too long at which point it will register as 4.0.6.
You shouldn’t need to change anything regardless of where your installation is provided that you have all the paths set correctly in admin preferences. The theme uses “<txp:site_url />” to set the correct paths to the style. The style CSS has been placed in your “Style” tab??
Actually, just thinking about what does show up and the fact that you have just updated fron SVN, you have installed the txplib_head file from the download? I’m thinking you may have over-written it.
It works!
I hadn’t paid attention to placing the CSS in a new style in the “Style” tab. Leave it to a newbie…
And you’re absolutely right about the revision number. It appears correctly in the update folder, just not in diagnostics.
Thank you so much for your help.