Joomla! 3.7 is already out, and there are many new features in it. We all know that, the Joomla! development team is working on Joomla! 4 which will come with some radical enhancements. We're also dreaming about an amazing user experience. We’ve designed some concepts for the Joomla! 4 admin dashboard pages. We have been working on these concepts for several months.
Here we will present some of these concept designs for the Joomla! 4 control panel. All of them are designed by the JoomShaper R&D team. Let’s explore them. (Please click any image to see the full version.)
Cleaner Login Page
We've designed a cleaner login page. This will give a Joomla! admin a fresh impression for starting with Joomla! 4.
Concept - Joomla! 4 Login Page
Dashboard
We dream of a cleaner, richer and more informative dashboard that would help the Joomla! administrators get an overview of the entire website in a glimpse. New notifications and unread message alerts are displayed on the top left bar. The logged-in username with the avatar and profile option dropdown is placed to the upper right corner of the top bar.
Concept - Joomla! 4 Admin Dashboard
There is a conspicuous sidebar to the left to provide the admin with all the dashboard options. Our concept dashboard shows the visitor statistics on the top followed by a handful of customizable widgets.
Flyout Menu
We’ve dreamt a unified section to manage all the website stuff. A sidebar in Joomla! 4 can serve this purpose. The sidebar would hold the admin menus such as the Dashboard, Content, Media, Components, Structure, Tools, System, Updates, and Help.
Concept - Sidebar Flyout Menu
All of the sections are detailed and feature rich. Let’s take a look at some of the inner pages under the Content section.
Articles
On the sidebar, the Content menu holds Articles, Pages, Categories, Tags, and Custom Fields. It's a flyout menu, which will show its inner options on mouse hover. In our Joomla! 4 concept design, we've imagined a cleaner article listing page, where admins will find it easier to view and organize the articles.
Concept - Joomla! 4 Article List
Below is the Create New/Edit Article page. We feel the need of the content output URL on the editor page, so we’ve given a ‘View’ link here.
Concept - Joomla! 4 Article Editor
Pages
In Joomla, 'Articles' are intended for creating and publishing blog posts. On the other hand, 'Pages' are necessary in building the website itself. A website's homepage, about page, and other inner pages are supposed to be built with Joomla! 'Pages'. So, pages need lot more features and functionalities. In our concept, Joomla! 4 has a native page builder. The page composer interface utilizes the native drag and drop page building system for easier website building workflow.
Concept - Joomla! 4 Native Page Builder
Media
A state of the art media manager would be a major feature of Joomla! 4. The Joomla! dev team is already working on a highly functional and brand new media manger for this purpose. We’ve designed a gorgeous and powerful media manager concept for Joomla! 4.
Concept - Joomla! 4 Media Manager
The media manager would support drag and drop file upload method.
Concept - Joomla! 4 Media Uploader
According to our concept, on-board image editing, image color adjustments and more useful features would also be available in the Joomla! 4 media manager.
Concept - Joomla! 4 Image Editor
The new media manager would be very fast, intuitive and feature rich.
Template
In Joomla! 4, we expect a unified place where users could control the entire site structure including template stuff management, menu organization etc.
Concept - Joomla! 4 Template Management Panel
The Structure panel lets an admin install and enable a template, view template details, open template options, and so on. Some more relevant page designs are given below.
The template details page would show the information about a template installed on the site. An admin could set a template as default from this page. A link to the template options is also available.
Concept - Joomla! 4 Template Details Page
On the template options page, an admin could change the template styling including preset colors, layouts, and so on.
Concept - Joomla! 4 Template Options Page
Navigation System
The existing navigation menu system of Joomla! is fine. We've designed a visually improved menu listing and editing interface in our Joomla! 4 concept.
Concept - Joomla! 4 Menu List
The single menu item composing interface concept for Joomla! 4 is demonstrated below.
Concept - Joomla! 4 Menu Editor
There are some more concept dashboard sections called Components, Tools, System, Updates, and Help. These sections would host core technical settings for the Joomla! site. We have plans to design more concept pages for Joomla! 4.
At JoomShaper, our vision is enriching the web with prettier designs, better functionalities, more accessibility and the ultimate efficiency. We work to ease the efforts of both the website administrators and the end users. Besides the amazing templates and powerful extensions we create, we also brainstorm about the Joomla! site administration experience. Please share your thoughts about the above concept designs, and let us know what more you expect from Joomla! 4. Thank you!
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I love the idea of "page builder" function for content. It is much easier. But Joomla 4 need to support other frameworks other than Twitter Bootstrap 2. At least 4 - or other frameworks as well. For building frontend templates, we need an option to customize everything.
I have seen the early concept for new administrator template for Joomla 4, and it is horrible ... just horrible
I start a post on Joomla that generate 110,569 views on Joomla forum explaining the problem and proposing a solution but the train seem to have no conductor.
—> https://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=803&t=970614
Thanks, JoomShaper to bring a solution of replacement to US - BRAVO!
Sadly, Joomla 4 will be now rejected by most web site builders as it will not have a workable onboard administration and it will sink to history.
I love it. :D:D
I like it a lot as well. Especially the administration menu on the left
I hope this adopted by the team :)
We can as well call the design freahkid.
Whether Joomla adopts this or not, this could be my default admin template when you release it as a template. :)
Make sure to change logo and joomla words also by customizing with our logo and words
Thanks from Italy
If Joomla accept this concept, whole or part, then it will be another grate milestone for Joomla! from this point onward.
Thanks for your perseverance and hard work to make Joomla! more user friendly for us.
I would prefer it.
I'll wait for the release.
You are very strong guys !!!!
Congratulations !
Changes like this with the already powerful Joomla! base will be what Joomla! needs to step out in front.
Yeah! Viva Joomla!
Congratulations !
Just tweak it a bit so it loses any resemblance to the Wordpress admin :D
After a long time with absolute look on their admin area, I wish I see something as nice as Joomshaper created.
Thank you.
Thanks btw.
and I do like the overall concept and I love that you are doing this for the community, however for me, this feels like you are going too far towards the Wordpress [which I really don't like] design/look and that's not a good thing.
And a mobile version is absolutely essential...
I like the reduction of many many options into more concrete actions per administration area.
Thanks
This design is like the concept of wordpress administration
it is very nice
Thanks
Whether Joomla accepts this or not. This would be my default admin template, if you would release this topic. Clear, modern and user friendly. For this backend template including a translation in German, I would pay 60 euros - point! :D
Let's see.
When we can use it :)
Great job guys
Maybe you are already working on it... I Love Helix 3 but as a regular user I did end up with some ideas for some needed improvements, and I am sure there is a lot of people with good ideas for Helix too. Wouldn't you guys want to open a discussion just for contributions and ideas for Helix 4? ... and by the way, is there any news about a possible Helix 4? :-)
Thanks for all your good work.
the stats are very nice and need it on backend admin.
the media manager is good,but i think for joomla 4 the media manager should have encrypted cloud storage bridge,that can be done if someone look into nextcloud.com is free open source as joomla and you can put all files likes images pdf, moviees,anything,in cloud providers like:google drive,wevdav,ftp,etc but encrypted.
should be interconection between joomla and nextcloud,so you can store files in cloud and retrieve them from joomla media manager,that way is more simple then integrating each cloud provider,because nextcloud adds more providers,so practically by integrating nextcloud with joomla,in the media manager you can save alot of space by storing files in cloud and have them available in your joomla media manager.
Thanks
Would have been nice to see some Mobile love too. Everybody uses Mobile devices this days and to be honest using Joomla back-end on Mobile devices at the moment is just awful. Maybe you could also provide some great ideas and a concept for our Joomla guys... ;)
Also I want to know about Helix4 :-)
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I do like the overall concept and I love what are doing for the community. However, I feel this concept is very much similar to WordPress although it's nice but the media section and structure(template manager) is very much similar to Wordpress. I mean you guys are very good at what you do if you can just do a little change on it that would be a new and better concept. Like for media manager, i like SP Pagebuilder media section more.
Cheers
Is it after download to help Joomla development?
Hope Joomla team will adapt this concept in upcoming Joomla4 version.
And Thanks for the Great Helix framework :-)
I think if you create a petition and we vote on it, we can make a strong case for them to adopt this look. I also think you can develop this theme and even sell it. It will be cool to have for free but i wouldnt mind buying it. soo neat.
Where do we need to vote for this to happen? :D
But I don't understand why people are so negative to some similarity to Wordpress? I don't care as long as it is this great!
I've been with Joomla since 2.5 but are very close to join the dark side of the force (Wordpress) ;)
But when you guys made an Elementor "clone" I became uncertain again. And if Joomla 4 would implement your concept, maybe I'll stay on the right side. ;)
May the force be with you!
We Love You JOOMSHAPER :D
This concept is better than the current Joomla! 4 dashboard.