Backend Plugin: How-to 'Sidebars'

  • Rosijanni

    (@rosijanni)


    13 years, 3 months ago

    Hello everyone!

    So, I’m on a difficult topic. It’s about an admin plugin that manages some associated content and I need to visualize this. Of course I could write the whole stuff on my own but I don’t want to redo something that’s already done well…

    Soo… I want to know whether WordPress gives me some UI stuff that I could use (like the tables). I need to implement a sidebar that contains various strings (parents) and show the details about this parent on the right-hand side.
    … It should be dynamic all in all…

    But I think you’ll understand it way better with a mockup I’ve done.

    Mockup: click me

    Soo… Can you advise me how to get the best result?

    Best regards,
    Jan Galler

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  • Anonymous User 7265597

    (@anonymized-7265597)

    13 years, 3 months ago

    this should be your starting point:

    have a go at creating a page and then show us again if you get stuck

    Codex: Adding admin menus

    Thread Starter Rosijanni

    (@rosijanni)

    13 years, 3 months ago

    Hi TCR,

    thank you. The problem I’ve is not inserting my plugin to the backend. That works fine, I’ve done some plugins already.

    The problem is: how to display the data in a dynamic table?
    My data looks like this:

    – Question
    – Answer 1
    – Answer 2
    – Add new Answer
    – Question 2
    – Answer 1
    – Add new Answer
    – Add Question

    So I want to have a list on the left-hand side with the questions, at the bottom the option to add a question. Then I need a second list with the answers…

    I’m more the OOP nativ programmer. In ObjC/C# I would have done this in a few minuets. But not in the web.
    So the question is: Provides WordPress such a dynamiclist sytem already or have I to code the whole list-handling on my own?

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    13 years, 3 months ago

    I don’t know if would meet your needs, but all the admin tables in the backend are extensions of WP_List_Table.
    http://core.trac.ww.wp.xz.cn/browser/tags/3.5.1/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-list-table.php

    If you can’t adapt this for your needs, as it was not intended for hierarchical lists, I’m guessing you are likely on your own for implementation.

    Thread Starter Rosijanni

    (@rosijanni)

    13 years, 3 months ago

    Hello bcworkz,

    okay. I’m already using WP_List_Table in other plugins. Now I know that it could be difficult. But I’ll give WP_List_Table a try.

    Thank you!

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