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Two Useful Wordpress 2.5 Plugins (Get back your Wordpress 2.3 interface!)

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Ever since I switched to Wordpress 2.5, there are some things about the new admin panel that puts me off. First of all - the category selector have been moved below the post input section, then followed by the fact that the admin panel is now fixed to a 980px width limit.

While any body that are familiar with CSS/PHP/HTML can manually tweak the files to fix these, it would be troublesome to upgrade in the future, as you will have to keep on editing the files everytime an upgrade is performed.

Don’t fret, here’s two useful plugins for Wordpress 2.5 that will give us back the 2.3-like interface!

Put the Category selector back to the Sidebar… before I’ll kill ya! Plugin


I guess the title speaks for itself in term of what this plugin will be doing. Head over the website and download this plugin now!

Remove Max Width Plugin

Wordpress 2.5 Default Admin Panel before using this plugin:

Wordpress 2.5 Admin Panel after installing this plugin:

This plugin will remove the admin panel’s maximum page width of 980px and make it fit as wide as you want on your precious 24″ screens! Download Link.

Hope these two simple plugins will once again makes you a happy Wordpress blogger!

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6 Comments

  1. Edrei on May 3rd, 2008 at 9:54 am

    Why bother? The original WordPress admin interface looked old and crappy anyway. What I do is download and install the Fluency Admin plugin, that is far by the best admin interface ever. Especially if coupled with Ozh’s Admin Drop Down Menu.

  2. Fird on May 3rd, 2008 at 10:51 am

    yep I know about that plugin. I’m using it myself actually. Just that some individual still prefer the stock admin interface and would like some tweaks :)

    Thanks for that dropdown plugin tip!

  3. Steve Yu on May 3rd, 2008 at 12:51 pm

    Nice plugins.

  4. Silencers on May 3rd, 2008 at 1:25 pm

    HAHAHAHA I was ‘just’ complaining EXACTLY about those two things not too long ago.

    Awesomeness.

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