Admin Tweaks

by brasofilo

Description

With Admin Tweaks you’ll be able to simplify and make deep customizations in the administrative interface.
It’s a compilation of hooks for enhancing, styling and reducing WordPress backend.

Do you like to adjust and style the backend as much as the frontend?
So, we are together!

Main Features

Admin Bar: remove, add and modify menu items.
Admin Menus: remove menu and submenu items; sort Settings menu; rename “Posts”.
Appearance: hide general elements; create admin notices.
Dashboard: remove and add widgets.
General Settings: enable arcane Link Manager; privacy; other misc options.
Listings: customize rows and columns for post types, users and plugins.
Media: custom columns; re-attachment; sanitize filenames; jpeg quality; audio/photo/video metadata.
Plugins: many row modifications; live filter by keyword/active/inactive; move plugins menus from the main menu into the Tools menu (Code Snippets, The SEO Framework, Hide Admin Notices).
User Profile: remove almost everything; add custom CSS.
Login: redirects; errors; modify almost everything; add custom CSS.
Maintenance Mode: with minimum Role allowed and possibility to block only the backend.

Acknowledgments

Everything changed after WordPress Stack Exchange
Plugin interface using @bainternet’s Admin Page Class
CSS for hiding help texts adapted from Admin Expert Mode
Everything started with Adminimize, by Frank Büeltge, which does an awesome job hiding WordPress elements, but I wanted more, and these are some of the great resources where I found many snippets: Stack Exchange, WPengineer, wpbeginner, CSS-TRICKS, Smashing Magazine, Justin Tadlock…
The option to hide the help texts from many areas of WordPress uses the CSS file of the plugin Admin Expert Mode, by Scott Reilly.

Installation

Upload many-tips-together.zip to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress.
Go to Settings -> Admin Tweaks and have fun.

Uninstall

The ‘reset’ button doesn’t delete the database entry, but if you delete the plugin, the entry will be deleted (via unsinstall.php)

Screenshots

Mind map with all features
Plugin settings, Profile page adjustments
Profile page with adjustments
Website with Maintenance Mode enabled
Customized Login page
Post Listing with ID and Thumbnail columns. Draft posts with another background color. Help tab hidden.
Media Library with ID column, bigger Thumbnails and All Thumbs listing. Download button in action rows.
Plugins page with different color for Inactive and custom color for selected authors. Simpler description and Last Updated information.

Faq

Why Many Tips Together? And why change its name to Admin Tweaks?

The first version of the plugin was a compilation of snippets.
It evolved to a General Admin Tweak plugin.
Most of the users who left feedback complained about it: too cryptic and hard to find.
Well, I agree, but I’m just changing the Display Name.
The Repository URL, Directory Name and Database Option Name are still keep original name.

Doubts, bugs, suggestions

Don’t hesitate in posting a new topic here in WordPress support forum.

Reviews

Awesome

By bitpath on March 22, 2022

Elegant and useful, and amazingly for free. Thank you!

3 bugs in 5 minutes

By johndeebdd on November 19, 2020

I found three separate bugs in 5 minutes after download. Is anyone maintaining this plugin in 2020?

A must have

By ardevland (ardev) on November 26, 2018

A must have

wonderful!

By Steve (helmixx) on September 3, 2018

so many tips together! thanks for that very useful feature package!

GREAT

By Patrick Horemans (Winock) on July 22, 2018

A must have!

A must have

By butchewing on April 25, 2018

I really enjoy the features and flexibility that this plugin offers.

Excellent.. has many tweaks,

By open5g on December 26, 2017

I was having a problem with WP posts list page - the title column would crunch down to just a few characters wide when using an SEO plugin which added columns. I posted on the SEO Framework support site then, minutes later, just happened to try Admin Tweaks. One of the many tweaks is one to adjust the Post page Title column width using pixels or percent. There are too many other tweaks to mention them. Some may seem trivial, such as adjusting the color for different stages of posts that I find useful. Admin Tweaks rolls up many individual plugins and scripts into just one. I have yet to use it much so I can't judge if there are bugs or performance hits.

Nice admin plugin

By synopsisconcept on August 24, 2017

Works on the last WP Version. Nice for a quick tweak of admin dashboards and else. Fonctionne sur les dernières versions de WP. Pratique pour le tweak rapide du coté admin du tableau de bord.

Simply awesome!

By András Guseo (aguseo) on May 24, 2017

This is a really cool plugin helping my everyday work in the admin dashboard. I install it for all my sites. I love it!

Fantastic

By bigjake36 on September 3, 2016

This plugin works for version 4.3 of WP and it's fantastic !!!

It does everything and more!! So, if your looking to change the admin look of your admin panel and more this is the plugin that's a must have.

Great Job !!!

Changelog

Version 3.3.3

Improved plugin filtering: better show/hide descriptions

Version 3.3.2

Bug fixes

Version 3.3

Added option to not create attachment pages automatically
Code reviewed and small bugs fixed
Removed ACF menu handling

Version 3.2.1

Admin Menu: option to Re-add the Customize submenu if your theme removes it
Admin Menu: bug fix for submenus not being listed on Remove Submenu Items
Post Edit: option to disable fullscreen editor at startup

Version 3.2

Gutenberg: new option to disable Gutenberg editor on Posts and Pages
Adjusted mobile CSS
Updated Redux Framework

Version 3.1

Admin Bar: improved “Remove default items”
Admin Menu: new option to remove submenus
Admin Menu: new option to move third party to the submenu Tools: ACF, Code Snippets and Notification Center

Version 3.0.5

Fix CSS error

Version 3.0.4

Updated Redux Framework
Added ID columns for Users listing
Cleaned Multisite features
Added feature to disable the prompt to confirm admin email
Better filtering for listings
Reposition plugins’ tweaks

Version 3.0.3

Added the feature Extra HTML on login page
Added links to code snippets with animated backgrounds for the login page

Version 3.0.2

Added the feature Blog Visibility warning

Version 3.0.1

Fixing SVN error

Version 3.0

New interface using Redux Framework; reviewed all features, some removed, some updated.
Old options loss: the options scheme changed and I didn’t make a migration tool, sorry for that to any lost soul still using version 2.4.1 😐

Version 2.4.1

Review for WordPress 4.8

Version 2.4

General revision to update to WP 4.7
Removed obsolete tweaks
Bug fixes

Older versions

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