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.