In admin settings, we can customize Navigation. There is a Primary and Secondary tab, and that’s super. In addition, we could use a third tab: "Admin" to extend navigation for admin and editors. That menu could then appear in the left sidebar, under the current admin menu.
Additional Admin menu options are convenient to give Authors and Editors some additional functionality. For example, we made a more advanced Post listing page using the Ghost API-call and that works amazing… but we are just missing the very last step: a good place to show a link, so our colleagues can actually find that page.
For example, we made a more advanced Post listing page using the Ghost API-call and that works amazing…
Do you mind sharing a bit more about this? I’d be interested to hear how it differs from creating a custom post list view that lives in the left sidebar and/or if the right filters are just not available. Example below:
Thank you for your reply. We use quite an extensive list:
Custom post list have too limited criteria for our purpose. In particular, we were missing:
- post includes a “LinkedIn Post Block” as we auto-publish all our posts to LinkedIn and store all in the post. For that we use a special excerpt in a code-block as Ghost does not have a good field left. This code block is obviously not visible in the post on Ghost site.
- Direct links to preview (not only edit)
- Post numbers; we loose track without sequential numbering
- Same for Excerpt
While we are at it, for navigation, we extended the definition a bit:
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one-level deep hierarchy (‘>’ )
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possible font-awesome icon pre-fix ‘[fa-…]’
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members only menu (‘+’) or non-members (‘-’)
At this stage we would already be happy to just add an admin-side-bar menu as said, as to reach our own admin pages we added a few links in the bottom of page. So not only the post list but also admin manual page and a link to our analytics…
