Getting back the old Network admin/Site Admin quicklink with WordPress multisite

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If you are like me, you won’t appreciate the removal of quicklinks(network admin/siteadmin link) from WordPress multisite in favor of the profile dropdown box. It was removed in WordPress 3.2 and the WordPress 3.2/3.3 contains the link in the dropdown.

Though I see the reason of its removal, as the new profile dropdown in upcoming wp 3.3 is much improved(and more like google profile drop down), I still miss the quicklinks. There are two reasons for this.

• It takes one click less to switch between the Nework Admim/AiteAdmin(I know wp 3.3 is providing it on hover)
• It tells me where I am right now(In the network admin/Siteadmin) and I am accustomed of it

And I liked it so much that I created a small plugin for the purpose. It was mainly for self use on my WordPress multisite based websites/test sites(and I have a lot of test sites running).
Here are couple of screenshots to remind you about the old quicklinks

Current Qucklinks(Profile) in WordPress

The old one which you will get back with this code

Here is the code, if you are using BuddyPress, you can just put this in bp-custom.php otherwise you can always download the plugin below

/*Inject Network/Site admin menu in the admin header*/
add_action('in_admin_header','bpdev_show_old_network_admin_link');
function bpdev_show_old_network_admin_link(){

    if ( is_multisite() && is_super_admin() ) {
	if ( !is_network_admin() )
		$link = '<a href="' . network_admin_url() . '" title="Manage Network">' . __('Network Admin') . '</a>';
	else
		$link = '<a href="' . get_dashboard_url( get_current_user_id() ) . '" title="' . esc_attr__('Site Admin') . '">' . __('Site Admin') . '</a>';

      echo '<div class="wp-old-quick-menu">'.$link.'</div>';

 }

}

//let us position it via css
add_action('admin_head','bpdev_old_menu_css');
function bpdev_old_menu_css(){
    if(!is_super_admin())
        return;
    ?>
    <style type='text/css'>
        .wp-old-quick-menu{
            margin-right: 139px;
            margin-top: 5px;
            position: absolute;
            right: 0;
        }
    </style>
 <?php
}

Download Link: Site Admin/Super Admin Quicklink (11)

Once you uploaded the folder, the plugin will be available from NetworkAdmin->Plugins->Installed. You will need to activate it Network wide.

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