[wp-hackers] New WP profile page

[Callum Macdonald]

Doug Stewart wrote:
> I think we're all waiting for Matt, et al., to commit the Happy Cog
> stuff to trunk/ before we even begin thinking about that.  There's
> just too much that is 1) unknown and 2) bound to change.
>
> Besides, folks[1] have already done a lot[2] to mod up the admin
> interface in the past.
>
> [1] http://orderedlist.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-tiger-administration/
> [2]http://www.stuff.yellowswordfish.com/admin-drop-down-menus/
What is Happy Cog? I've never heard of it...

The Tiger Administration and Admin Drop Down Menu are nice, but they 
only modify the existing admin interface, they don't provide anything in 
addition to it. For example, we're developing a WPMU site with our own 
themed header above and below the WP Admin interface. A couple of hooks 
(like wp_admin_header and wp_admin_footer) could be really helpful here. 
For example, being able to replace the standard admin-header.php and 
admin-footer.php files would be quite easy yet very powerful.

A small thing I noticed with regards to restyling the admin interface, 
there is no "wrapper" div tag. So there is no way to reduce the width 
and centre the whole page.

I think these items could be fixed with a few lines of code, and could 
make the WP Admin interface much more easily customisable.

I'm curious to know more about Happy Cog though, I'm hoping it's some 
super themable new admin system which will obsolete this discussion! :)

Cheers - Callum.