Introducing admin sidebar navigation

[Mittens]

@Richie

I think my team and I have resigned ourselves to simply not using the admin functions on mobile.

The site where I am has no mobile users that have any admin capability’s, so we dont have any problems with that, at least from what I know.

[awesomerobot (Kris)]

@merefield

What about, on mobile, when you hit Admin bring up the Dashboard and immediately pull out the side menu? If your aim (unusual) is just to arrive at the Dashboard then simply click that or click out?

Yeah we’ve discussed doing something like this to save the additional tap… easiest way seems to be navigating to /admin then triggering the sidebar immediately…

@merefield

Or perhaps even more intuitively, upon clicking the admin menu item pull out the admin side-menu but don’t yet navigate to anywhere.

maybe more complicated but that would probably be even faster

[martin (Martin Brennan)]

@Richie

It’s sooooo hard to find anything now

We now have Introducing: Comprehensive admin search in case you are not aware, this is much easier to use because it searches everything in admin, not only filtering the sidebar links. Doesn’t help much in this mobile situation, but it certainly makes finding things much easier on desktop.

@awesomerobot

@merefield

What about, on mobile, when you hit Admin bring up the Dashboard and immediately pull out the side menu? If your aim (unusual) is just to arrive at the Dashboard then simply click that or click out?

Yeah we’ve discussed doing something like this to save the additional tap… easiest way seems to be navigating to /admin then triggering the sidebar immediately…

I did try doing this last year, it ended up being not as simple as I would have thought. We could try again though, it would be nicer at least in admin’s case to show this when you land in the admin interface on mobile.

[DaVania (Ivan Miransky)]

While the desktop sidebar is very nice, the mobile experience is now extremely painfull.

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

Search is one extra click now, but it does work nicely, especially on mobile.

I wonder @hugh if there is anything extra special we should do in mobile mode. Personally if I hit admin on mobile and click the magnifying glass I would prefer to just search within admin, but I totally understand this could lead to a huge inconsistency.

Not sure how we can solve this.

[hugh (Hugh Lashbrooke)]

I’ll investigate some options there!

[Jagster (Jakke Lehtonen)]

There is one small detail I would change, if I could: the order of the tabs for themes and components. I work more with components than themes, and I’m quite sure the same is true for most admins. That’s why components should be first, or have focus, when that part is opened.

Not a big thing, but slightly annoying

[piffy]

A huge QOL improvement would be a section on the top of the dashboard that has links to either the most frequently used admin pages or the most recent visited ones, because there’s a bit of a zipf’s law with respect to the admin pages I usually visit

[merefield (Robert)]

@piffy

zipf’s law

Zipf's law

(thanks, that’s a good one! )

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

One thing we discussed is the possibility of allowing custom sections in the admin sidebar, just like we have in the main sidebar