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W2O Admin Dropdown Menu
Neat, clean, responsive and WordPress environment friendly horizontal dropdown menu for Admin that eliminates the left menu and saves screen space!
The facts
- Rating
- 4.9★ from 10
- Active installs
- 100+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 3 Sep 2018
- Added
- Jan 2016
- Requires WP
- 4.0
- Tested up to
- WP 4.9.31
- Downloads
- 13,036
Our analysis
AI-assistedW2O Admin Dropdown Menu is a WordPress plugin that transforms the left admin menu into a horizontal dropdown menu, saving screen space. It uses the existing WordPress admin bar to create this dropdown, ensuring that all standard menu links remain accessible without additional setup. The plugin is designed to be responsive and adapts to various screen sizes, making it suitable for users on mobile devices.
This plugin is aimed at WordPress administrators who prefer a cleaner and more streamlined admin interface. It retains the original icons and colours from the WordPress environment, providing a familiar look while enhancing usability.
Best for: This plugin suits WordPress administrators looking for a simplified admin interface.
What it does well
- ✓Transforms left admin menu into a horizontal dropdown menu
- ✓Responsive design adjusts to screen size
- ✓Uses WordPress default dashicons and retains original icons
- ✓Compatible with Admin Menu Editor plugin
- ✓No additional setup required
Where it falls short
- •Limited information on specific features or user feedback
- •Last updated in September 2018
Verdict
W2O Admin Dropdown Menu offers a straightforward solution for managing the WordPress admin menu. Its simplicity and responsiveness may appeal to those wanting to declutter their admin dashboard.
From the developer
Shishir Raj Adhikari's own description of W2O Admin Dropdown Menu, lightly tidied.
The popular horizontal Dropdown Menu for WordPress Admin
W2O Admin Dropdown Menu is a simple horizontal dropdown menu for WordPress Admin that eliminates the left menu and saves screen space. All the left menu links of wp admin are available in the form of horizontal dropdown menu (or say floating menu bar). It does not add additional horizontal dropdown menu like other plugin does. It simply uses the WordPress top menu bar (admin bar) to create the horizontal dropdown menu eliminating the admin’s left menu section. The beauty lies in the simplicity, isn’t it!
Major features
- Responsive horizontal dropdown menu. Auto adjustable when there are many menus and overflows down.
- Uses WordPress default dashicons as menu icons (for parent menus). Also retains the original image as icon (like SVG, PNG) used by 3rd party plugins for their parent menu. But the plugin itself does not use any extra image. It maintains originality!
- Uses the selected WordPress Admin Color Scheme for its menu bar color, menu icons (dashicons) color, font color etc. Thus we call it “WordPress environment friendly” menu.
- Retains WordPress original “admin bar menu toggle” mechanism for Mobile devices.
- Finally, no headache to setup/configure any additional settings. Just install the plugin, activate it, and enjoy!!!
Additional features
- With version 3.0 (and onwards), “W2O Admin Dropdown Menu” is compatible with “Admin Menu Editor” plugin as well. It works perfectly with the latest version of “Admin Menu Editor” plugin.
- Like before a feature to display “ICONS ONLY” as parent menus still exists in the plugin. To use this feature you simply need to set the value of ‘wpiconsonly’ to 1 (i.e. from ‘wpiconsonly’ => 0 to ‘wpiconsonly’ => 1) in “core.php” at line number 261 (fyi, “core.php” resides inside your “/wp-content/plugins/w2o-admin-drop-down-menu/core/” directory).
If you like this plugin then why don’t you drop an email at shishir.adhikari@gmail.com saying “I loved it…”. I would really appreciate that.
Tagged as
industry
Environment & Sustainability
purpose
Admin Dashboard & White Label
feature
Fully Responsive
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