How To: Admin panel hacks

If you ever use WYSIWYG editors (TinyMCE or FCKeditor) to insert images into your content item (articles or posts) then you will find that the image tab is taken up wasted space and can be annoying when not in use at all.

A simple fix is to use JoomlaWorks excellent Minted One-Point-Five 2.2 admin template.

Here is how you can install and use the template:

• Download the template and unzip it.
• rename the template folder to minted_one-point-five go into this folder and find a file called template.xml and open this in a text editor
• on the third line where it says < name >Minted One-Point-Five< /name >, delete it and replace it with < name >minted_one-point-five< /name >
• Please do not add the spaces you see in the < name > and < /name > tags
Now save the template.xml file and upload the complete folder to your site in /administrator/templates/ folder
• Remember, the name must match your folder name, so if your folder is called minted_one-point-five, then the tile in your < name > tag must also be called minted_one-point-five.
• Browse to /administrator/templates/minted_one-point-five/ folder and open up configuration.php file.
• Find line 17 where is says $simplemode = 1;
• Change the 1 to 0 to disable the image tab.
• At this point you may also hide the footer by change $hidecredits =1; to $hidecredits = 0;
• login to your administration panel, from the top menu navigate to: site --> Template Manager --> Administrator Templates. Select minted_one-point-five template and make this as the default template by clicking on default button
• If the minted_one-point-five admin template does not show up then it's most likely that you have not kept the name the same for both the folder name and what is in the template.xml file as mentioned above.