Working with the new Admin GUI (en/book/our Dashboard)
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XOOPS 2.5 has as a default a new Admin GUI – the “Oxygen”, developed by Voltan (Hossien Azizabadi), and which is based on EXM created by Bit3CR0 (Eduardo Cortés).
Figure 1: Oxygen - XOOPS Admin screen theme
Our new Dashboard is a major move forward toward improved ease of use for XOOPS users, with nice GUI and clear pull-down menus, as well with System Information and helpful Tabs. 1) On the very top you see a Toolbar (1) with several buttons:
that provide a direct access to the System Options:
Icon
Function
Avatars
Banners
Blocks
Comments
Groups
Image Manager
Mail Users
Maintenance
Modules
Preferences
Smilies
Templates
User Ranks
Users
Help
2) The System Options are also visible in the Pane (2)
3) The “Installed Modules” Pane (3) shows images of the currently installed modules 4) In the “System Overview” Pane (4), you can check your current System values (like PHP and Apache versions, and most important configuration values, as well as more info about XOOPS, and links to our Gift shop, in case you would like to purchase a T-Shirt or coffee mug with XOOPS Logo.
Figure 2: Admin GUI showing system information
5) New in 2.5.0 is the additional Pane with new extra Tabs:
Figure 3: New Extra Tabs
The new Tabs provide extra information for the Administrator:
Icon
Function
Help
Waiting Content
New Members
Top Posters
Recent Comments
XOOPS 2.5.0 provides couple of “skins” that you can change for a different look of the default theme, with currently available: Dark and Silver:
Figure 4: Switching to "Silver" skin
Of course, you will be able to create your own skins, if desired.
Figure 5: Control Panel Menu items
In the Control Panel Menu you have following choices:
Menu Item
Description
Home Page
It will get you to your Homepage
XOOPS News
It will pull latest XOOPS news from www.xoops.org
Logout
It will log you out from your website
Figure 6: Module menu items
The Modules Menu will show all installed modules, and in a submenu for each of them – their individual options.
Figure 7: Preferences menu items
The Preferences Menu shows preferences for XOOPS as well as individual modules that you have installed on your system.
Figure 8: Links Menu items The Links Menu provides you with links to useful sites:
XOOPS Website
XOOPS modules repository
XOOPS Themes gallery
XOOPS Project location on SourceForge