Have you ever heard of Microsoft TweakUI or similar programs that provide a variety of options to tweak and finetune your operating system? Well, I thought, why can’t something similar be done for WordPress?
Introducing WordPress Tweaks: a plugin that adds a variety of extra toggle-on/off options to WordPress.
Check out the plugin’s homepage for the tweaks list, which includes changing “Blogroll” back to “Links” in the admin menus, opening external post links in new windows (using JavaScript, so it’s XHTML 1.0 Strict compliant), adding “nofollow” to the “Register” and “Login” links, and much more.
The plugin is at version 0.1 right now. Do you have any tweaks you’d like to see added to future versions? Let me know in the comments! (And of course, let me know if you find any bugs too.)
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This plugin looks interesting. There are some tweaks I’d like to make, though some probably can’t be accomplished with a tweak. One in particular is to select a default email method (sendmail, php, or smtp) that would work for anyone using the standard wp_email function (I think that’s what it’s called – it’s been a while since I’ve looked at it).
By the way, your download link appears to be broken.
The download link is fixed (it was working fine in Firefox, but not IE … argh). Thanks for letting me know.
How do I get rid of the message “This blog has been fine-tuned with 6 WordPress Tweaks.” at the bottom of my pages?
Sorry, found it:
# Go to the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
# Click ‘Edit’ next to the ‘WordPress Tweaks’ entry.
# Find this line of code at the top:
define(“JL_WPT_FOOTER_COUNT_ENABLED”, 1);
# Change the one to a zero.
# Click Save.
The “comments” menu in the admin panel disappears when using Wordpress Tweaks 0.1.2 with Wordpress 2.5? Is there a fix?
All is not lost, you can still get to comments and akismet through the dashboard.
@Bob: This is caused by the “Rename ‘Blogroll’ admin menu item to ‘Links’” tweak. Disable the tweak to fix the problem. (The tweak deals with a terminology issue in WordPress 2.3, so it’s not even applicable for WordPress 2.5.)
Thanks for letting me know! In the next version of the plugin I’ll either remove that tweak (since it no longer applies) or else make it clear that it’s only intended for WP 2.3.
Wallah! Problem solved. Thanks much. I’ll crosspost the fix at the Wordpress forum.