New plugin: adminBranding

kuzzzma

New plugin I wish to share with others: adminBranding.

adminBranding is a plugin for Zenphoto CMS for customization of Admin backend.

Originally adminBranding was intended as a fork of zp-branding v1.4 to be merged with zp-branding.
Since our approaches to the task and customization needs are so different, me and @fretzl have decided to keep projects separate, hence the rename. Calling it zp-branding (kuzzzma version) potentially could lead to confusion and, anyway, I'm not Taylor Swift.

Instead of proposed zp-branding ver 2.0 this work is therefore released as adminBranding v1.0 and will be updated if need be by myself.
It was tested with latest Zenphoto version 1.6.3a.

Feedback is welcome.

Links: https://github.com/kuz-z-zma/adminBranding

Options:

• Logo for Admin (Default, Custom, No logo) with ability to specify width and margins.
• Background styling for Admin (Default image, Custom image, No image, Image repeat behaviour, Color)
• Styling of Text and Links in Admin.
• Custom CSS for further alterations.
• Custom Logo and Background files should be placed in "/uploaded/design" folder of your Zenphoto install
  (see more info on UPLOAD FOLDER of Zenphoto).
• Plugin also supports translation, and I've provided one for Russian (ru_RU).

What it does differently from zp-branding:

• adminBranding doesn't use included custom Logo image.
  If user wants to use custom Logo - they need to upload it into designated area, to protect files from being overwritten on the update.
• adminBranding greatly expands available options.
• adminBranding allows user mix and match plugin Options to combine custom and default elements for their desired look.

Installation:

1. Copy "/admin-branding" folder and "admin-branding.php" and into the "/plugins" folder of your Zenphoto installation.
2. Enable the "adminBranding" plugin in the Zenphoto backend (Admin section of plugins list).
3. Upload custom Logo and background images into "/uploaded/design" folder (see above).
4. Setup plugin to your liking via plugin options.

Screenshot

adminBranding options and their effect

kuzzzma

adminBranding v1.1

New version of my plugin for Admin section customization - added option to use custom CSS file in addition to inline CSS.

This allows for some very dramatic customizations of the Zenphoto Admin section + offers user a convenience of adjusting settings from the comfort of their preferred CSS editor.

Changelog:

• Option to use custom CSS file for Admin backend
• Update to RU locale
• Some code clean-up

Links:

https://github.com/kuz-z-zma/adminBranding
https://www.blog.private-universe.net/web-and-tech/zenphoto-plugin-adminbranding/

acrylian

Great, any plugin+update is welcome.

Just to note for users, if asking for support disable any customisations because we will not cover those and refer to the standard.

@kuzzzma: Please don't embed external images or other sources directly, only link to them.

kuzzzma

@acrylian yeah, I'll probably add a warning about the need to disable custom CSS files and code, as a first step in troubleshooting for any issues with presentation.