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I’ve loved this plug in many times in EE1 and want to pour on the awesome with EE2. Any plans to get this shakin’ on EE2?

If no, is anyone aware of any other ways to customize the EE2 CP Home panel?

A custom accessory most logically comes to mind but while accessories are great (especially since they are accessible from every page) it would be nice to have a custom home screen as the very first thing a client sees.

Something/anything that is more friendly/useful than the default layout.

Thanks!

Hey Poccu—sadly, there are no hooks for controlling the CP home screen in EE2. I’ve just been building a custom accessory for each client as needed (for notes, instructions, cat videos, etc).

I will say that the new CP home screen is far better than the 1.6 default ... but far worse than the 1.6 home screen with my Google Analytics and Custom Home Panels extensions installed.  :)

That is unfortunate. I might just have to go back to hacking core files (trust me, I know this is the wrong thing to do) but to me its worth giving the client a more meaningful experience. What i’m looking for is something more in the way of what I’ve attached here. IMHO and in the opinions of clients, this is a much more useful and easy to use method of getting to pages and entries that need updating.

I wonder if you think it possible is a way to make the accessory work more like a modal window instead of having it at the bottom of the page. Possibly then one could do a call to the modal when the user lands on the CP home panel making it appear more as a page, instead of being tucked/hidden at the bottom. Is that a feasible idea from how you understand accessory development?

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I haven’t checked, but you may be able to simply change the theme file for the home screen. Have a look at the default theme and see if it’s the case.

A modal window is a possibility with an accessory, yes, as you can load your own CSS, JS and the like as you wish.

Wow, yeah the theme is totally customizable. Thanks for this tip. It will be MUCH cleaner to modify this file versus what we had to go through in 1.X.

Thanks for all of your time and help.