I wanted to update everyone on my journey here to accomplish this. The Mission Control admin template from Rocket Theme looks like the winner. I was easily able to remove a bunch of stuff from the back-end for the 'newbie' user without having to make any code changes. I also disabled some modules that cluttered up and could possibly confuse a newbie.
I have one task that remains: I've been able to remove many things from the webpage for the 'newbie' user, but the EDIT for the 'newbie' profile still displays and is enabled. I would like to remove the EDIT option from the web page. I don't want the 'newbie' to change any of the settings for their profile. How could I best accomplish this? I have looked in the code for the Mission Control template, and I could put in a check if the user is not Super User then the EDIT would not appear, but I can't help wondering if there is a better way or if I have overlooked a way to not display the EDIT option? I could just assign the custom modified Mission Control template for the 'newbie user' and the default Joomla admin template for the Super User, but wanted to check on my approach here first. Thanks! David Roth On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 7:58 AM, OSTraining <i...@ostraining.com> wrote: > 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> > > 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>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> > > 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>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> > > 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)> > > > 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! Mailing List > > > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla > > > > > > NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online > > > http://www.nyphpcon.com > > > > > > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > > > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Helvecio "Elvis" da Silva > > Rio de Janeiro - Brasil - helvecio...@gmail.com (mailto: > helvecio...@gmail.com) > > http://www.helvecio.com - http://blog.helvecio.com > >
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