Admin Extensions Tabs - tabs instead of dropdown

Every time you go to Extensions → Extensions in OpenCart admin, you have to click the dropdown, wait for it to open, scroll down, find the right category, and click. Every single time. Same goes for Shipping, Payment, Order Totals, Captcha — anywhere this awful select appears.

This module replaces the dropdown with horizontal tabs

The main idea — bring order to a standard OpenCart admin section with one tiny OCMOD.

❖ Description and features

❖ Horizontal tabs with Font Awesome icons for each extension category

❖ Counter badges showing number of extensions in each tab

❖ Active tab highlighted with color — never lose track of where you are

❖ Active tab memory — next visit opens the same section you left
❖ Drag-n-drop tab reordering — hold and drag, order is saved

❖ Filtering: All / Installed / Not installed — with live counters
❖ Quick search by name — instant filtering of the extension list as you type

❖ Trash bin — drag a tab to hide it, with counter of hidden tabs

❖ Eye icon — restore all hidden tabs in one click

❖ Two-way sync with original select — nothing breaks

❖ Standard OpenCart AJAX — no hacks or workarounds

❖ Race condition protection — fast tab switches never mix up content

❖ Language files via standard OpenCart system

❖ Support for Ukrainian / Russian / English

❖ Advantages

❖ Clean architecture — single OCMOD, no core files overwritten

❖ Does not affect business logic — only a UI wrapper over the native select

❖ Compatible with OpenCart updates — new categories are picked up automatically

❖ Compatible with any modules — does not block or break anything

❖ Settings saved in browser localStorage — nothing written to database

❖ Works with any admin theme

❖ Module does not replace system files

❖ Module does not use ioncube

❖ Free

❖ Installation

❖ Go to admin: Extensions → Extension Installer

❖ Upload the adminmodtab.ocmod.zip file

❖ Go to Extensions → Modifications and click Refresh (blue button top-right)

❖ Go to Extensions → Extensions — enjoy the tabs

❖ Requirements

❖ OpenCart (or any build including ocStore) version 3.x

❖ Theme and modules following standard OpenCart code style

❖ License buyer is not a citizen of the terrorist-occupant country RF or its accomplices from RB
 

Special thanks to marufworld — back in 2017 (a bold UX move for the OpenCart community at the time) he was the first to show that the dropdown in admin can be replaced with tabs. This implementation is written from scratch and extended with modern functionality: active tab memory, drag-n-drop reordering, hiding unwanted tabs, filtering installed/not installed, counters, and more.