 readme admin 2x the admin module provides ui improvements to the standard drupal admin interface the 2x branch focuses on the following goals 1 sustainability avoid excessive overrides of code markup and interface strings to ensure the module keeps the workload overhead on the maintainers and community to a minimum 2 pluggable extensible architecture ensure that admin serves as a starting point for other modules in contrib to implement admin interfaces 3 expose drupal s strengths and downplay its weaknesses where possible an honest approach to the underlying framework and architecture of drupal will be less confusing to the user down the road admin is not an original work many of its decisions have had direct influences from other work in the community administration menu http drupalorg project adminmenu daniel kudwien sun navigate http drupalorg project navigate chris shattuck chrisshattuck d7ux http wwwd7uxorg mark boulton leisa reichelt installation 1 install enable the module 2 admin makes a permission available that allows only properly permissioned users to make use of the admin toolbar users with the use admin toolbar permission will be able to use the toolbar 3 you can configure the layout position and enabled tools for the admin toolbar on admin settings admin implementing your own admin plugins admin s plugins are simply drupal blocks in order to expose one of your module s blocks as one suitable for use in the admin toolbar you can set the admin key in your hookblock to true note that users can add any blocks to the admin toolbar if they wish at admin settings admin though not all will work well in the context of the admin toolbar implementation of hookblock function mymoduleblock op list delta 0 edit array switch op case list blocks array blocks example array info t example block admin true return blocks theming your block and other tips your block should provide general rules for either of the admin toolbar layouts horizontal or vertical you can specify css rules using the following selectors admintoolbarhorizontal admintoolbarvertical admin provides fairly decent defaults for the following drupal core theme functions theme itemlist menu output eg menutreeoutput most form elements with the exception of fieldsets admin panes see below admin provides an additional formapi element type adminpanes admin panes allow you to fit multiple elements of content into a togglable interface the panes will automatically adjust to the layout to the toolbar and display as either vertical tabs horizontal layout or accordian boxes vertical layout here is an example of using admin panes in a form api array form panes array tree false type adminpanes foo array title t pane 1 bar array title t pane 2 note that each child element must have a title attribute to be labeled properly contributors yhahn young hahn ajashton aj ashton  