Add a quickicon in Joomla!’s Admin CPanel

After you login to your backend console, you can easily notice the CPanel in the left part. Here are the steps to add a new shortcut (quickicon):

1) Locate the /administrator/modules/mod_quickicon.php file and open it with your favourite PHP editor.

2) Go to the last quickicon, after lines 83-86:
    if ( $my->gid == 25 ) {
        $link = “index2.php?option=com_config&hidemainmenu=1″;
        quickiconButton( $link, “config.png”, “Global Configuration” );
    }

3) After this lines you can add as many quickicons you want, just before the next line containing:
    if ($securitycheck) {

4) Here is the code for a new quickicon (eg: a quickicon for VirtueMart)
    $link = “index2.php?option=com_virtuemart”;
    $image = “credits.png”;
    $name = ”VirtueMart”;
    quickiconButton( $link, $image, $name );

5) Another example of a quickicon (eg: a quickicon for the Blog)
    $link = “https://www.halcyon-solutions.com/blog/”;
    $image = “blog.png”;
    $name = ”Blog”;
    quickiconButton( $link, $image, $name );

6) The $link can contain relative or absolute URL, the $image should be a relative picture from /administrator/images/ and $name should be the name for the CPanel.