quendistudio/skin

Enhanced Winter CMS backend skin with dropdown menus, breadcrumbs, and form navigation

1.0.0 2026-06-23 17:28 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.1
• composer/installers: ~1.11

MIT

• Quendi Lamaud

• admin
• ui
• backend
• skin
• wintercms
• quendistudio

README

Enhances the Winter CMS admin interface with dropdown menus, breadcrumbs that handle subpages, previous and next buttons on forms, and optional shortcut buttons on the right side of the breadcrumb.

French documentation: README.fr.md

Quendistudio plugins work without Skin (secondary controllers stay in the side menu). Skin is recommended for the streamlined navigation experience.

Installation

Composer (recommended)

composer require quendistudio/skin
php artisan winter:up

The skin is applied automatically to the backend when the plugin is enabled.

Backend → Settings → Skin (QuendiStudio Plugins category). Grant the quendistudio.skin.administrate permission to the relevant administrators.

Manual

Clone into plugins/quendistudio/skin, then:

php artisan winter:up

Breadcrumb buttons (_breadcrumb_buttons.htm)

On list controllers (index action), Skin renders a partial named breadcrumb_buttons on the right side of the breadcrumb. This keeps rarely used subpages out of the side menu while remaining one click away.

How to implement (in your plugin, not in Skin)

1. Create controllers/<controller>/_breadcrumb_buttons.htm in your plugin.
2. Guard with $this->action === 'index' so create/update/preview actions keep the default breadcrumb buttons.
3. Wrap links in <div class="breadcrumb-buttons"> (see examples below).

Skin discovers the partial via the active controller's view path — no registration in Skin is required.

Without Skin installed, the file is simply unused; your side menu entries remain the fallback.

Example — settings shortcut (SmallContactForm)

Path: plugins/quendistudio/smallcontactform/controllers/messages/_breadcrumb_buttons.htm

<?php if ($this->action === 'index'): ?>
    <?php if ($this->user->hasAccess('quendistudio.smallcontactform.access_settings')): ?>
        <div class="breadcrumb-buttons">
            <a href="<?= Backend::url('system/settings/update/quendistudio/smallcontactform/settings') ?>" class="btn btn-sm btn-info wn-icon-cogs">
                <?= e(trans('quendistudio.smallcontactform::lang.controller.scoreboard.settings_btn')) ?>
            </a>
        </div>
    <?php endif ?>
<?php endif ?>

Example — secondary controllers (Support)

Path: plugins/quendistudio/support/controllers/tickets/_breadcrumb_buttons.htm

Links to ticket types and statuses on the ticket list. When Skin is installed, Quendistudio.Skin also hides those items from the Support side menu and keeps the menu context on the tickets section when browsing types/statuses.

Compatibility

• Winter CMS: 1.2.x
• PHP: 8.1+
• Quendistudio.Support (optional): ships _breadcrumb_buttons.htm on the Tickets controller; Skin applies the UX orchestration described above

TODO

• Dark theme i18n: window.skinI18n is injected from skins/enhanced/layouts/_mainmenu.php. If you add a custom modern/layouts/_mainmenu.php (or override the enhanced layout), include the same snippet so the dark-theme label follows the backend locale:

  <script>window.skinI18n = { darkTheme: <?= json_encode(trans('quendistudio.skin::lang.general.dark_theme')) ?> };</script>

Support

• Website: https://quendistudio.com
• Issues: https://github.com/quendistudio/skin/issues

License

See the LICENCE file for license details.