Pimp Your Joomla Admin Panel

Pimping the default Joomla admin panel can help you not only to better manage your Joomla website, but also enjoy more being an admin.

When it comes to extensions for improving your Joomla admin panel, AdminPraise is the best currently available. It’s available in both free and premium versions. I’d recommend you start with the free (lite) version.

Apart from the numerous extra functions it brings to the admin panel, AdminPraise is notable for being extremely easy to set up and customize. With it you can turn the admin panel into a dashboard through which you can work more efficiently.

Pimping Your Admin Panel

By pimping your Joomla admin panel with AdminPraise you get the following:

• Attractive themes, for which you can customize the background, border, font, and link colors.
• Modules that you can arrange however you like. A helpful module is Activity Log, which helps you keep track of your activity.
• Improved admin menu populated with links that you may customize.
• Quicklaunches for modules and components.
• Separate themes for each site admin.
• My Editor, which lets you quickly change editor settings. Uses Ajax.

To get these and more you need to install the AdminPraise extension, either the free one on JED or the premium version.

AdminPraise Lite Package

One of the most popular and highly-rated admin panel packages on JED is AdminPraise Lite. The package contains, besides a great template, a few essential modules and plug-ins which considerably improve the admin panel.

Benefits include 5 color themes with extensive configuration options, improved organization with an elastic layout, shortcuts to common functions to increase productivity, and the ability to hide the sidebar. The AdminPraise Lite package is free and easy to install.

AdminPraise Premium Offerings

If you want to get even more from your admin panel, then you may want to consider the AdminPraise Bundle, which transforms the admin panel completely. A notable feature is automatic resizing depending on the browser you use, which makes it possible to use the admin panel on-the-go through mobile devices.

Other features include dashboard modules, five great themes, tools menu, custom menu ACL, larger editing window, session bar, focused editing mode, and mobile support.

If you decide to check out AdminPraise make sure you check the documentation to learn of all the features available.