Jump in. Here’s the first new plugin I’ve released in a while. It’s a simple one and it only works on WordPress 1.6.
This plugin removes most (maybe all) of the client-side dynamic admin cruft that has been added to WordPress between versions 1.5 and 1.6. Don’t get me wrong, I find some of it useful, but there are folks who are feelin’ just fine with the admin interface as-is in 1.5 and might become confused with all the extra controls. So if you don’t want the extra javascript stuff, then install and activate the Admin Revert plugin.
What does it do exactly?
Things that are disabled after this plugin is activated include:
- The WYSIWYG editor
- The fading-in error/warning/confirmation messages
- The collapsible panels on the Write page
- Ajax-based link and post deletion
Other things might be disabled by removing those giant chunks of javascript, but presumably the basic failover functionality is still there for any function, simply because we can’t be sure that every browser has the options enabled to perform these functions.
Of course, this is version 0.1, and the WordPress version that it works on is still in alpha. If there are other features that should be disabled or changed, please leave a comment, and I’ll see about adding them in, too.
One thing that I might consider is the nefarious “Save and Continue Editing” change. And at that point, I’ll have to build an options page just to store all the settings… Ah, the project gets bigger…
