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The next version of Bluetrait (1.2) has had the admin panel links system redesigned. This has been done for a number of reasons:

1. Clean up the links for users who do not have permissions to certain pages (don’t display links that the user cannot access).
2. Allow plugins (should be ready for the next version) to quickly and easily add/change the links bar without modifying core files.

So the current links bar in Bluetrait 1.1 looks like this:

  
Let’s say a user of level 0 clicks the File Upload button. They would see this message:

 
So how are the users meant to know what areas of the site they have access to?
 
The next version of Bluetrait fixes this. A user of level 0 will now see a links bar that looks like this:

 
So this should make Bluetrait easier to use for users who register to the site.

Now on to plugins. An API has been created to allow plugins to modify the links bar. Here is what the links bar looks like with two plugins enabled.

Notice the number next to Comment Moderation button and the extra button at the end of the bar.

Plugins can also modify the lower links bar.

The links bar code needed to be completely rewritten to support these features, and we’re happy to say that the load time hasn’t increased noticeably (we’re talking thousandths of a second here) and in some cases has decreased.

So we hope you like these changes.