There's the two that ship with Joomla (BlueStork and Hathor), five more in the article below and three more linked in the comments:
http://www.ostraining.com/blog/joomla/joomla-admin-templates/ There's also a few more floating around including the work done on this Joomla distro: http://squareonecms.com/. Quite a few of those changes might make Joomla 3. Steve On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 at 1:51 AM, Helvécio da Silva wrote: > I find the back-end template waaaaaay more complex to fiddle with. > > I know of only two so far: > > - AdminPraise Lite from the guys who make ProjectFork. There's a premium > version that seems to have more configuration options. > - Mission Control from RocketThem > > 2012/5/29 David Roth <davidalanr...@gmail.com > (mailto:davidalanr...@gmail.com)> > > That looks very useful, thanks! > > > > I can't help from wondering if someone has created an entire extension that > > is a replacement for the back-end that incorporates all these features > > without having to make changes in the code. If not, maybe there should be? > > > > David Roth > > > > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Helvécio da Silva <helvecio...@gmail.com > > (mailto:helvecio...@gmail.com)> wrote: > > > Is this is what you are looking for? > > > > > > http://magazine.joomla.org/issues/Issue-Apr-2012/item/721-Customizing-the-Admin-Menu > > > > > > 2012/5/29 David Roth <davidalanr...@gmail.com > > > (mailto:davidalanr...@gmail.com)> > > > > Thanks to both of you! Those articles were very helpful. I had not > > > > gotten a chance to check out the ACL feature in Joomla until now. > > > > > > > > I was wondering while reading it, is there a way to replace the "help" > > > > tab so it links to custom documentation for the user instead of the > > > > Joomla documentation and links? Thanks! > > > > > > > > David Roth > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 7:26 AM, Helvécio da Silva > > > > <helvecio...@gmail.com (mailto:helvecio...@gmail.com)> wrote: > > > > > I found this from Jen Kramer (She's GREAT!) in Joomla Magazine. It > > > > > can be a kickstart. > > > > > > > > > > http://magazine.joomla.org/issues/Issue-May-2012/item/761-Joomla-ACL-Configuring-back-end > > > > > > > > > > 2012/5/23 OSTraining <i...@ostraining.com > > > > > (mailto:i...@ostraining.com)> > > > > > > Hi David > > > > > > > > > > > > Give this a try: > > > > > > http://www.ostraining.com/blog/joomla/joomla-acl-tutorial-for-allowing-one-person-to-modify-only-one-category/ > > > > > > > > > > > > That was written a while ago and there's an extra permission now. > > > > > > > > > > > > You'll also need to go to Site > Global Configuration > Permissions > > > > > > and give the new user group permission to "Access Administration > > > > > > Interface" > > > > > > > > > > > > Steve > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 6:40 AM, Helvécio da Silva wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > You can use Joomla 2.5.x ACL to acomplish that. A little bit > > > > > > > tricky, but I believe it can be done. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > G'luck! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 2012/5/23 David Roth <davidalanr...@gmail.com > > > > > > > (mailto:davidalanr...@gmail.com) (mailto:davidalanr...@gmail.com)> > > > > > > > > I've never bothered with any other template for Admin than what > > > > > > > > is supplied with Joomla. But I want to be able to have a > > > > > > > > non-technical user be able to edit the content for a category > > > > > > > > of Articles assigned to them, but don't want anything else > > > > > > > > visible to them so they don't become confused or start to mess > > > > > > > > around with things which could screw up the pages. Before > > > > > > > > anyone tells me that the user should go through training and > > > > > > > > learn how to manage things so this doesn't happen, while I > > > > > > > > would agree, that isn't the case this time. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Does such an admin template already exist? Or can Joomla 2.5.4 > > > > > > > > be made restrictive enough so when this non-technical user > > > > > > > > logins in they only see what they need to? Thanks! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > David Roth > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > > > New York PHP SIG: Joomla! 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