Admin and Site Enhancements

Contributors: qriouslad
Donate link: https://paypal.me/qriouslad
Tags: enhancements, tweaks, optimizations, tools
Requires at least: 4.6
Tested up to: 6.1
Stable tag: 2.1.0
Requires PHP: 5.6
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Duplicate page / post, replace media, hide login, hide admin notices, hide admin bar, login / logout / 404 redirect, and more in a single plugin.

Description

Admin and Site Enhancements helps you to easily enhance various admin workflows and site aspects while replacing multiple plugins doing it.

Content Management

• Enable Page and Post Duplication. Enable one-click duplication of pages, posts and custom posts. The corresponding taxonomy terms and post meta will also be duplicated.
• Enable Media Replacement. Easily replace any type of media file with a new one while retaining the existing media ID, publish date and file name. So, no existing links will break.
• Enhance List Tables. Improve the usefulness of listing pages of various post types by adding / removing columns and elements.
  • Show the featured image column: in the list tables for pages and post types that support featured images.
  • Show the excerpt column: in the list tables for pages and post types that support excerpt.
  • Show the ID column: in the list tables for pages, all post types, all taxonomies, media, users and comments.
  • Remove the comments column: in in the list tables for pages, post types that support comments, and alse media/attachments.
  • Remove the post tags column: in the list table for posts.
  • Show custom taxonomy dropdown filter(s): on the list tables of all post types for taxonomies that are hierarchical like post categories.

Admin Interface

• Hide Admin Notices. Clean up admin pages by moving notices into a separate panel easily accessible via the admin bar.
• View Admin as Role. View admin pages and the site (logged-in) as one of the non-administrator user roles.
• Admin Menu Organizer. Customize the order of the admin menu and optionally hide some items.
• Clean Up Admin Bar. Remove various elements from the admin bar.
  • Remove WordPress logo/menu
  • Remove customize menu/link
  • Remove updates counter/link
  • Remove comments counter/link
  • Remove new content menu
  • Remove 'Howdy' text
• Hide Admin Bar. Hide it on the front end for all or some user roles.

Security

• Change Login URL. Improve site security by using a custom login URL, e.g. www.example.com/backend
• Obfuscate Author Slugs. Obfuscate publicly exposed author page URLs that shows the user slugs / usernames, e.g. sitename.com/author/username1/ into sitename.com/author/a6r5b8ytu9gp34bv/, and output 404 errors for the original URLs. Also obfuscates in /wp-json/wp/v2/users/ REST API endpoint.

Utilities

• Redirect After Login / Logout. Set custom redirect URL for all or some user roles after login / logout.
• Redirect 404 to Homepage. Perform 301 (permanent) redirect to the homepage for all 404 (not found) pages.

Admin and Site Enhancements will include more enhancements, tweaks and useful features in future versions. Please give feedback on must-have plugins or code snippets you enable on sites that you manage, and the functionalities will be considered for inclusion as well.

Give Back

• A nice review would be great!
• Give feedback and help improve future versions.
• Github repo to contribute code.
• Donate and support my work.

Check These Out Too

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• Debug Log Manager: Log PHP, database and JavaScript errors via WP_DEBUG with one click. Conveniently create, view, filter and clear the debug.log file.
• Variable Inspector: Inspect PHP variables on a central dashboard in wp-admin for convenient debugging.
• Code Explorer: Fast directory explorer and file/code viewer with syntax highlighting.

Screenshots

1. Content Management
2. Admin Interface
3. Security
4. Utilities

Frequently Asked Questions

Why build this plugin?

Hoping that this is useful in reducing the number of plugins we install the first time we set up a site.

Changelog

2.1.0 (2022.11.08)

• [ADDED] Security >> Obfuscate Author Slugs: Obfuscate publicly exposed author page URLs that shows the user slugs / usernames, e.g. sitename.com/author/username1/ into sitename.com/author/a6r5b8ytu9gp34bv/, and output 404 errors for the original URLs. Also obfuscates in /wp-json/wp/v2/users/ REST API endpoint. Props to pull request from Wahyu Arief @wahyuief and functions from Smart User Slug Hider .

2.0.0 (2022.11.06)

• [ADDED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: Customize the order of the admin menu and optionally hide some items.

1.9.0 (2022.11.03)

• [ADDED] Admin Interface >> Hide or Modify Elements: Easily simplify or customize various admin UI elements, starting with the admin bar.
• [CHANGED] Content Management >> Enhance List Tables: this combines previously separate features related to list tables for various post types.

1.8.0 (2022.11.03)

• [ADDED] Admin Interface >> View Admin as Role: View admin pages and the site (logged-in) as one of the non-administrator user roles.

1.7.0 (2022.10.31)

• [ADDED] Utilities >> Redirect 404 to Homepage: Perform 301 (permanent) redirect to the homepage for all 404 (not found) pages.

1.6.0 (2022.10.31)

• [ADDED] Utilities >> Redirect After Logout: Set custom redirect URL for all or some user roles after logout.

1.5.0 (2022.10.30)

• [ADDED] Utilities >> Redirect After Login: Set custom redirect URL for all or some user roles after login.

1.4.0 (2022.10.30)

• [ADDED] Security >> Change Login URL: allow for setting a custom login URL to improve site security.

1.3.0 (2022.10.29)

• [ADDED] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Bar: Hide it on the front end for all or some user roles.

1.2.0 (2022.10.28)

• [ADDED] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices: Clean up admin pages by moving notices into a separate panel easily accessible via the admin bar.

1.1.0 (2022.10.22)

• [ADDED] Content Management >> Enable Media Replacement: Enable easy replacement of any type of media file with a new one while retaining the existing media ID and file name.

1.0.0 (2022.10.17)

• Initial stable release.