Meep’s Musings

Wordpress 2.3.1 came with a few good things but the dashboard is still the same bloated monster with the links to the Developer Blog and other news, which slow down loading considerably. Here are a few tips how on how to streamline it a bit and give you only what you need.

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What you need for this is first of all the SimpleTags plugin and an icon (quick image search). You will need to edit the file simpletags.php in your ‘wp-content/plugins’ folder.

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This hack lets you set the numbers of posts to show under ‘Manage - Posts’ (tested on Wordpress 2.0+ only). You have to edit the file edit.php in the directory ‘wp-admin’. In this example, I change the number of shown posts from 15 to 30, but of course you can choose any number which suits you. Remember that the larger this lists becomes, the longer it takes to load.

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After a while I became unsatisfied with the way Wordpress handles drafts, and especially how they are displayed. Wordpress simply puts title after title, which becomes soon confusing if you have more than one or two drafts. So I came up with this hack (Wordpress 2.0+ only). It arranges your drafts in an unordered list on top of your ‘Write Post’ page. ( Screenshot) You have to replace the following code in the post.php in ‘wp-admin’:

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