{"id":78602,"date":"2012-05-29T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=78602"},"modified":"2012-05-24T06:06:56","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T10:06:56","slug":"floating-admin-menu-wordpress-usability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/floating-admin-menu-wordpress-usability\/","title":{"rendered":"Improve WordPress Usability with Floating Admin Menu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-78603\" title=\"Improve WordPress Usability with Floating Admin Menu\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/floating-admin-menu.jpg\" alt=\"Improve WordPress Usability with Floating Admin Menu\" width=\"356\" height=\"243\" \/>In the past there have been many WordPress plugins that have gone on to become a part of the standard WordPress installation functionality. I want to introduce you to a plugin today that I believe should join that illustrious group.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Floating Admin Menu\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/floating-admin-menu\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Floating Admin Menu<\/a> is an excellent example of how to improve the usability of the WordPress backend without sacrifice. The concept is simple, yet blindingly obvious &#8211; why shouldn&#8217;t the sidebar remain fixed in place as you scroll down? All you are left with is blank space &#8211; why not make good use of it?<\/p>\n<p>The plugin&#8217;s developer, <a title=\"Till Kr\u00fcss\" href=\"http:\/\/tillkruess.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Till\u00a0Kr\u00fcss<\/a>, made the recommendation that a fixed sidebar be incorporated into WordPress <a title=\"WordPress Trac Ticket 19994\" href=\"http:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/19994\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and the response was mixed. Ultimately it was suggested that he develop a plugin, so that the adoption rate could be observed. So he went ahead and did so. Here is the end result:<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-vimeo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/42244181\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>World-changing it is not, but it does just make life that little bit easier. I personally can see no reason why this feature shouldn&#8217;t be incorporated into a future WordPress update.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Creative Commons image courtesy of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/treehouse1977\/\" target=\"_blank\">treehouse1977<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Install Floating Admin Menu and never lose your sidebar in a sea of gray again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84405,"featured_media":78603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[87],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-78602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plugins","tag-menus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216617,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78602\/revisions\/216617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78602"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=78602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}