{"id":5549,"date":"2012-11-06T03:09:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T09:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/?p=5549"},"modified":"2012-11-06T03:14:44","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T09:14:44","slug":"the-best-wordpress-admin-plugins-of-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/06\/the-best-wordpress-admin-plugins-of-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best WordPress Admin Plugins of 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Let\u2019s face it, running a site isn\u2019t easy. And for those that run a successful WordPress<\/a> site, it might be just as hard. Yes its easier to create content, but as a website owner, you have to be administrator to your website. You have to maintain your content, comments made on your site, updates to the code, and if you have other writers you have to edit their work as well. Image Source: <\/em>Flilckr<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

WordPress Admin Plugins<\/h2>\n

To help ease the pressures of managing WordPress, I have six useful plugins for managing the administration side of running a website. Each of these plugins, has been updated over the last few months and have great features that will enhance and make your life easier when it comes to working on the administration side of your website.<\/p>\n

Editorial Calendar<\/h3>\n

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\u201cDid you remember to write a post for next Tuesday? What about the Tuesday after that? WordPress doesn’t make it easy to see when your posts are scheduled. The editorial calendar<\/a> gives you an overview of your blog and when each post will be published. You can drag and drop to move posts, edit posts right in the calendar, and manage your entire blog.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Admin Management Xtended<\/h3>\n

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\u201cAs a whole, the new WordPress Admin panel is organized fairly well, however when it comes to editing posts or pages quickly without having to open each post or page in a new tab or window, it isn’t a very efficient process. For those who are using WordPress as a CMS<\/strong>, it’s important to be able to manage contents easily and quickly. That’s what this plugin<\/a> helps to do.<\/em><\/p>\n

It adds some icons to the posts\/pages management panel with AJAX-driven<\/strong> CMS-known functions like toggling post\/page visibility, changing publication date and title without having to open the edit screens or reload the page<\/strong>, plus changing page order with drag’n’drop<\/strong>, inline category management and inline tag management, plus much more.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Adminize\"The<\/a><\/h3>\n

\u201cVisually compresses the administratrive header so that more admin page content can be initially seen. Also moves ‘Dashboard’ onto the main administrative menu because having it sit in the tip-top black bar was ticking me off and many other changes in the edit-area. Adminimize<\/a> is a WordPress plugin that lets you hide ‘unnecessary’ items from the WordPress administration menu, submenu and even the ‘Dashboard’, with forwarding to the Manage-page. On top of that, you can also hide post meta controls on the Write page and other areas in the admin-area and Write-page, so as to simplify the editing interface. Compatible with WordPress 2.5 or later. Configure all metaboxes and other areas in the write-area. The new theme move the Tags- and Categorys-box to the sidebar, switch off optional metaboxes and other areas in the write-area. Many options for menu, submenu and all areas, metaboxes in the write-area, separated for all roles in WordPress.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Codepress Admin Columns\"The<\/a><\/h3>\n

\u201cBy default, WordPress only shows a few built-in columns. This plugin<\/a> will give you many additional columns. You will have full control over all columns for pages, posts, posttypes, media, links, comments and users.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Custom Admin Branding<\/h3>\n

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\u201cThe Custom Admin Branding Plugin<\/a> allows you to brand and customize the WordPress administration area for clients or for personal use. You can display custom images and styles for the login screen, admin header and footer.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Fluency Admin\"The<\/a><\/h3>\n

\u201cFluency Admin<\/a><\/strong> gives the standard WordPress admin a little lift<\/strong> and adds a handful of handy features<\/strong> to make \/wp-admin<\/code> an even better<\/strong> place to be.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s face it, running a site isn\u2019t easy. And for those that run a successful WordPress site, it might be just as hard. Yes its easier to create content, but as a website owner, you have to be administrator to your website. You have to maintain your content, comments made on your site, updates to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1200,1199,83],"class_list":["post-5549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress","tag-admin-control-panel","tag-wordpress-admin","tag-wordpress-plugins","entry","has-post-thumbnail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJPdG-1rv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}