New WordPress Plugin: Clutter Free
Many people have told me that there are portions of the WordPress posting interface that they never use. Even when collapsed, these sections can take up significant room. My new plugin, Clutter Free aims to fix that. Using this plugin, you can eliminate several portions of the posting interface, including:
- Categories
- Comment Status (“Discussion”)
- Post Password
- Post Slug
- Post Status
- Post Timestamp
- Post Author
- Optional Excerpt
- Image Upload
- Quicktags
- Bookmarklet
- Footer
These settings are stored for each user, so every author on your blog can have his or her own customized interface.
For an extreme example, check out this shot with everything removed. (The section on the right is something I developed… see here for more info.)
Clutter Free requires WordPress 2.0.5 or 2.1 (works with these builds as of September 26th, 2006). You can use it with 2.0.4, but there are several sections that you won’t be able to hide, because they didn’t have distinctive CSS IDs in 2.0.4
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October 3, 2006 at 10:34 am
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October 3, 2006 at 11:12 am
Clutter Free – jedem User sein Admininterface
Mit diesem WordPress Plugin kann jeder user seinen Adminbereich beim Beitrag schreiben gestalten. Clutter Free – ein WP Plugin das aufräumt, hier auf deutsch.
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Texto.de
October 3, 2006 at 1:20 pm
Sounds great, it’s a practical plugin because it does what alot of us need. I’ll wait till WP 2.1 reaches us and then use it.
TechZ
October 3, 2006 at 1:56 pm
Same here, I’ll wait for 2.1 before installing it.
I think it will be better if there is an option where only the admins can change the settings for multi-user blogs and not on a per author basis (and also saving database space). Or maybe it’s another plugin.
Aaron
October 4, 2006 at 2:26 am
This is what I was waiting for,… I will try.
Olaf
October 4, 2006 at 3:31 am
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Akkam’s Razor
October 4, 2006 at 8:13 am
Aaron,
Right now it’s just a cosmetic change. If it was an admin forbidding, I’d have to take steps to actually disable the hidden sections, so that a user couldn’t work around it. Maybe for version 2.
I thought about adding that, but it would have been a lot more coding.
And the plugin works on 2.0.5, which should be out in a few weeks.
Mark Jaquith
October 4, 2006 at 10:59 am
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October 4, 2006 at 6:18 pm
Is it easy to toggle between the “clutter free” and “cluttered” versions?
Mr Angry
October 4, 2006 at 9:55 pm
Mr Angry,
You could just disable/enable the plugin. That’d do it. Two clicks to do that.
Mark Jaquith
October 4, 2006 at 11:30 pm
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October 5, 2006 at 7:47 am
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October 7, 2006 at 6:26 pm
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October 7, 2006 at 10:06 pm
Ill wait for a while begore i use it on my wordpress blog. Keep up the good work!
friedclyde
October 11, 2006 at 3:14 am
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October 15, 2006 at 4:05 pm
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November 11, 2006 at 7:44 pm
Is there a way to use this to allow members of the public to post articles that automatically go to “draft” so a Admin can authorise later?
Kevin
December 1, 2006 at 12:53 pm
Great plugin — it is working well on 2.0.5. Is there anyway to have all the panels disabled by default? I’ve modified the plugin so that “Post Preview” can’t be disabled, but I’d like for everything else NOT to be visible until manually enabled by the user (the opposite of how it is now).
It seems like there would be a quick way to add this functionality into the plugin, but I’ve spent 2 hours on it so far and have yet to find it!
sam
December 13, 2006 at 9:36 pm
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January 23, 2007 at 5:29 pm
Same question as sam :
This plugin is great ! But I would like other users to have a default setup with fewer panels… There should be an easy way to do that ?
philippe
January 24, 2007 at 7:24 pm
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April 13, 2007 at 5:10 am
Great plugin. Any chance of implementing the default behavior of a clean write screen as requested by folks in this comment thread?
Russ Lipton
October 30, 2007 at 4:18 pm
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April 20, 2008 at 10:26 pm
Great pugin. Thank you
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September 19, 2008 at 5:51 am
Great plugin, it is very helpful!
Gry Logiczne
September 21, 2008 at 11:04 am
Great job! Very thx!
gry
December 1, 2008 at 8:47 am
Hi, How can reduce the amount of wasted space at the top of the write panels? Above and below “Edit Page” or “Edit Post”, there is tons of space that could go to the text entry field itself. It kind of drives me nuts, but I haven’t found the right wp css/php file yet. Thanks!
Andrew Durham
September 30, 2009 at 4:14 pm