There are three plugins that come with a vinilla copy of NucleusCMS that effect the admin area.

• AdminPrePageHead - this allows additional “html” to be added inside the head tags of the admin area.
• AdminPrePageFoot - this allows extra content to be added to the end of the page.
• QuickMenu - allows menu items to be pushed onto an array to be added tot he plugins menu at the end of the list.

With a little JavaScript and CSS additional content can be added to the admin area. Using DOM one could even carry out such fancy effects as resetting areas of the page with content from a div tag that is otherwise hidden.

In addition to this many events are generated by the ADMIN class and they could be used to some limited degree by a crafty hacker to add content to the 3.2x admin area.

NP_Admin (not documented here) by Lord Matt uses these techniques to add two new dynamic menus to the admin area and to colourize it.