The advanced menu for the Joomla 3 Admin side. Based on the default mod_menu module.

Adds the following possibilities:

• open menu items on mouse hover action;
• select existing components configurations from the menu;
• view all the frontend menu items in the Menus item without entering the Menus component page;
• direct acces to some of the Extension Manager views;
• access to the Admin/Site modules component views and add new modules from the main menu;
• view the list of plugin folders and appropriate plugins inside them;
• view the list and access to the Styles and Templates views;
• show the status of different components, plugins, menu items;

Also the menu is active when an element is in the editing state.

1. Download the *.zip.
2. Go to the Extensions -> Extension Manager in the admin Joomla part.
3. Drag the zip onto the upload field and Upload & Install.
4. Go to the Extensions -> Module Manager -> Administrator.
5. Click on the Advanced Admin Menu module.
6. Select the menu position and Publish it.
7. Save & Close.
8. Disable the Admin Menu module.
9. Test the new module.