administration theme

A bit late to announce but about a week ago I have released the first stable release of Administration theme for Drupal 5 and Drupal 6. A Drupal 7 version is available but as long as Drupal 7 isn't officially released this one will be a development version.

So what is in this release?

• The Drupal 5 version gives you the possibility to use the administration theme when editing posts. This feature was introduced in Drupal 6 core and is with this module now available in Drupal 5.
• Use the administration theme on more pages then possible with Drupal 5 or Drupal 6 core. You can allow the theme on a predefined set of pages and on a custom set of pages. The inverse is also possible: specifying a set of custom pages on which you don't want to use the theme. An example of this might be that you want to use the administration theme (all pages having a path starting with "admin" (admin/*)) but not on "admin/content/node".
• Hooks! All modules can now add some pages to the administration theme settings page using the hook_admin_theme hook. By doing so you give inexperienced users the possibility to just tick a checkbox to use the administration theme.
• A permission is introduced to allow or disallow certain users to use the administration theme.

I hope you'll all enjoy this release. Let me know you feature requests in the issue queue.

I have just contributed two small modules.

The first one is Instant Search and allows you to make your Drupal content appear directly in search results after creation.
By default, Drupal indexes node content only when running the cron. This means that your new or updated content may only appear in search results after a few minutes, when cron has run. Using Instant search, you can make Drupal index your new nodes when submitting them (inserting or updating), after which they will instantly appear in search results.

The second one is called Administration theme use Drupal's built in administration theme feature on more pages then possible with Drupal's out of the box settings. You can have the administration theme then on batch processing pages, devel pages, ... or any page from a list you define.