iandunn / quick-navigation-interface

Quickly access screens and content within wp-admin by typing the first few letters of the name.

Quick Navigation Interface provides a new way to navigate through the Administration Panels, combining the speed of keyboard shortcuts with the ease of a graphical user interface.

Just press g or ` -- the backtick character, usually located above the tab key -- to bring up the interface, and then start typing part of the name of any screen, post, page, etc. As you type, you'll be shown a list of matching links. Use the Up and Down keys to move between them, and press Enter to open one.

This was inspired by Ubuntu's Dash and HUD, and is also similar to the Spotlight feature in OS X.

Setup

If you just want to use the plugin, you can install the packaged version from the WordPress.org plugin repository.

If you want to develop the plugin, then follow these steps to setup the development version:

• git clone https://github.com/iandunn/quick-navigation-interface.git
• cd quick-navigation-interface
• npm install
• npm start

After the initial setup, you only need to run npm start. To build the distributed version, run npm run build.

quick-navigation-interface's Issues

Ignore plugins updates count

Hi,

The "Plugins" menu items contains a placeholder for a counter when there is any plugin update available. It's hidden when no update is available. The code behind this is Plugins <span class='update-plugins count-0'><span class='plugin-count'>0</span></span>.

I'd suggest to completely ignore this count, else it appears as "Plugins 0", which is weird. 🙂
What do you think?

Set `user_db_version` via `get_content_index_timestamp()`

The user_db_version param was set in
5ec51ba#diff-25b173e415baa1e3deefd7f6ec181542, but that commit missed the fact that there's already a function to retrieve that value: get_content_index_timestamp().

That function has a comment wondering if it's needed anymore:

quick-navigation-interface/classes/quick-navigation-interface.php

Lines 273 to 274 in 37a1aee

	// todo this isn't called from anywhere after deleting set_cache_headers(), so can maybe delete it too
	// will it be needed once add local storage though?

...but 5ec51ba demonstrates that it is. So, we should change enqueue_scripts() so that the function is used instead of calling get_user_meta() directly, and then we can remove the todo comment.

quick-navigation-interface/classes/quick-navigation-interface.php

Line 246 in 37a1aee

'user_db_version' => get_user_meta( get_current_user_id(), 'qni_content_index_timestamp' ),

backtick char does not open the interface on my French keyboard

Hi,
Thanks for this plugin

Unfortunately, the backtick does not work as expected; on a French keyboard, it's a dead key to accentuate characters.

I think esc key would be a better default key to open the interface (that can be closed with the mouse)