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This week I’m going to briefly tell you about what we’ll have for you next week. If all goes according to plan, the new admin theme will be committed to the dev branch by this time next week. Technically it’s not a new admin theme in the module sense, but rather a new look for the AdminThemeUikit theme. (The original look will be there too, should you want to keep using it.) There are a lot of cool things about the new look, but here’s a few things to whet your appetite: 1. It comes with a “dark” mode, and a really fantastic dark mode at that. Every user can choose whether they want a light or dark version of the theme, or they can switch on-the-fly from any page. Both the light and dark versions of the theme are equally beautiful and refreshing. 2. The configuration screen lets you choose what your “main” color is for the theme, whether using predefined traditional PW colors, or a color picker where you can choose your own. 3. This theme also customizes the look of TinyMCE, so that it fits right in with the rest of the interface. 4. If you want to change more about the appearance of theme than what’s on the module config screen, you can do so with a custom CSS file. And there are more than 30 CSS variables that are easy to understand and customize. More next week, so stay tuned!

User Restrictions is a module that can — currently, I do have some future additions in mind — be used to restrict admin access for users so that requests must come from a specific list of allowed IP addresses, or alternatively must match a set of geolocation rules. For geolocation I've been using ipgeolocation.io, which is a paid service, but they do provide a free developer access. Configuration is handled via $config->UserRestrictions: $config->UserRestrictions = [ // by default restrictions are enabled when debug mode is off // 'login_restriction_enabled' => ..., // define users that are restricted 'login_restriction_enabled_for' => [ // 'my_admin_username' or 'user:my_admin_user' (username) // 41 or 'user:41' (user ID) // 'role:superuser' (role) // 'regex:/.*/' (regex pattern, which is matched against username) ], // list of valid IP addresses 'valid_ip_addresses' => [], // list of valid geolocations 'valid_geolocations' => [], // geolocation API settings (optional, required only if valid geolocations are specified 'geolocation_api_url' => 'https://api.ipgeolocation.io/v2/ipgeo?apiKey={api_key}&ip={ip}', 'geolocation_api_key' => '', // error display and logging behaviour 'display_errors' => false, 'log_errors' => true, ]; This module is somewhat experimental at the moment, so please tread carefully. Let me know if you run into any issues, or have any suggestions/ideas for the module 🙂 https://github.com/teppokoivula/UserRestrictions https://packagist.org/packages/teppokoivula/user-restrictions

On a scale of 1-10, this is an 11.

Finally an adjustable theme and dark mode. Can't wait much longer.

Hi Jürgen! Thank you for fixing this so quickly. Indeed I was logged in while testing, and this caused the email field to be populated with the email address that happens to also be the recipient address. In the logged out state it is not populated as expected 😉 Now I can test with eg. a Gmail address (as sender address), but then I get this error message Email is not a valid email address, because an active DNS record could not be found. Any idea what that is about? I’m running in on a local machine using WireMailSmtp, and I can successfully send test mails from the config page of WireMailSmtp using the same email addresses.

Back up your database first!

Thank you! This is coming in clutch!