Scott Reilly

A widget that can act as a duplicate of another widget (for synchronized use in another sidebar)
Define a widget once, use it in multiple sidebars. This saves you from having to manually configure each copy of the widget and later having to worry about keeping them in sync should you ever need to make any changes. Particularly useful for those who define logic in their themes to conditionally include different versions of a sidebar depending on what template is being shown. Depending on use, it is an alternative to plugins that introduce in-widget logic to determine when widgets should be visible (Widget Logic, Section Widget, Conditional Widgets, etc).
Quick overview of what this plugin does:
<ul>
<li>Adds a widget called “Duplicate”. The widget’s only setting is a dropdown listing all active widgets. The selected widget will be the widget duplicated by the duplicate widget.</li>
<li>A duplicate widget shows the same title and content as its source widget, even if those values later get changed in the source widget.</li>
<li>A widget can be duplicated any number of times and can appear multiple times within the same page. (Yes, even within the same sidebar, though why would you do that?)</li>
<li>A duplicate widget will abide by the configuration of the sidebar it is placed in, not the configuration of the sidebar containing the source widget. So it uses ‘before_widget’, ‘after_widget’, ‘before_title’, ‘after_title’ values of its own sidebar.</li>
<li>Widgets that are duplicated will have “[D]” prepended to their name in the widget titlebar in the admin to denote they have duplicates. Also, at the bottom of the widget’s configuration form (when the widget is expanded), a short blurb also explains that the widget has duplicate(s) and a count of how many duplicates it has.</li>
<li>If a widget is deactivated or deleted, if it has any duplicates, they get deleted as well.</li>
<li>The widget id and widget type of the source widget are included as HTML classes in the duplicate widget’s markup.</li>
</ul>
Links: <a href="http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/duplicate-widget/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin Homepage</a> | <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/duplicate-widget/" rel="ugc">Plugin Directory Page</a> | <a href="http://coffee2code.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Author Homepage</a>
<h3>Filters</h3>
The plugin exposes four actions for hooking. Typically, customizations utilizing these hooks would be put into your active theme’s functions.php file, or used by another plugin.
<h4>c2c_before_duplicate_widget (action)</h4>
The ‘c2c_before_duplicate_widget’ hook allows you to output text, or perform some sort of action, just before the output of the duplicate widget.
Arguments:
<ul>
<li>$instance (array) : The settings for the widget instance (namely: title and widget_to_duplicate)</li>
<li>$args (array) : The configuration for the widget and sidebar</li>
</ul>
Example:
<pre><code>// Output an opening <div> before duplicate widget content
add_action( 'c2c_before_duplicate_widget', 'my_c2c_before_duplicate_widget', 10, 2 );
function my_c2c_before_duplicate_widget( $instance, $args ) {
 echo '<div class="a_duplicate_widget">;
}
</code></pre>
<h4>c2c_after_duplicate_widget (action)</h4>
The ‘c2c_after_duplicate_widget’ hook allows you to output text, or perform some sort of action, just after the output of the duplicate widget.
Arguments:
<ul>
<li>$instance (array) : The settings for the widget instance (namely: title and widget_to_duplicate)</li>
<li>$args (array) : The configuration for the widget and sidebar</li>
</ul>
Example:
<pre><code>// Output an closing </div> after duplicate widget content
add_action( 'c2c_after_duplicate_widget', 'my_c2c_after_duplicate_widget', 10, 2 );
function my_c2c_after_duplicate_widget( $instance, $args ) {
 echo '</div>;
}
</code></pre>
<h4>c2c_before_duplicate_widget_form (action)</h4>
The ‘c2c_before_duplicate_widget_form’ hook allows you to output text, or perform some sort of action, just before the output of the duplicate widget’s configuration form (in the WP admin).
Arguments:
<ul>
<li>$instance (array) : The settings for the widget instance (namely: title and widget_to_duplicate)</li>
</ul>
Example:
<pre><code>// Display a message just before the duplicate widget settings form
add_action( 'c2c_before_duplicate_widget_form', 'my_c2c_before_duplicate_widget_form' );
function my_c2c_before_duplicate_widget_form( $instance ) {
 echo 'Note: this is a note above the widget settings form.';
}
</code></pre>
<h4>c2c_after_duplicate_widget_form (action)</h4>
The ‘c2c_after_duplicate_widget_form’ hook allows you to output text, or perform some sort of action, just after the output of the duplicate widget’s configuration form (in the WP admin).
Arguments:
<ul>
<li>$instance (array) : The settings for the widget instance (namely: title and widget_to_duplicate)</li>
</ul>
Example:
<pre><code>// Display a message just after the duplicate widget settings form
add_action( 'c2c_after_duplicate_widget_form', 'my_c2c_after_duplicate_widget_form' );
function my_c2c_after_duplicate_widget_form( $instance ) {
 echo 'Note: this is a note below the widget settings form.';
}
</code></pre>

Duplicate Widget

A widget that can act as a duplicate of another widget (for synchronized use in another sidebar)

WordPress has long provided inline documentation throughout the administrative interface that provide explanations for various features and input fields. This includes an explanations of excerpts, trackbacks, custom fields, page parents, etc. These are great for newcomers to WordPress, but for those with sufficient familiarity these bits of text are no longer necessary and merely provide visual noise. This plugin gets rid of those descriptive texts.
The plugin’s behavior is made available as a per-user profile option. Each user who wishes to enable expert mode for themselves must do so individually by going into their profile, checking the field ‘Expert mode’, and then pressing the ‘Update Profile’ button.
Specifically, this plugin removes:
<ul>
<li>
Dashboard
<ul>
<li>Description of “Welcome to WordPress!” panel</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Categories
<ul>
<li>Description of “Category Name”</li>
<li>Description of “Category Slug”</li>
<li>Description of “Category Parent”</li>
<li>Description of “Description”</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Edit Post
<ul>
<li>Description of “Custom Fields”</li>
<li>Description of “Excerpts”</li>
<li>Description of “Trackbacks”</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Edit Page
<ul>
<li>Description of comment status</li>
<li>Description of “Custom Fields”</li>
<li>Verbose descriptions of “Attributes” (parent, template, and order)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Edit Link
<ul>
<li>Description of “Name”</li>
<li>Description of “Web Address”</li>
<li>Description of “Description”</li>
<li>Description of “Target”</li>
<li>Description of “Link Relationships (XFN)”</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Tags
<ul>
<li>Description of “Tag name”</li>
<li>Description of “Tag slug”</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Widgets
<ul>
<li>Text indicating that widgets are added from the listing of widgets on the left.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Install Themes
<ul>
<li>Help text for search field</li>
<li>Help text for “Feature Filter”</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Themes – Custom Header
<ul>
<li>Help text simply stating you can upload files from you computer</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Manage Plugins
<ul>
<li>Description of what plugins are and that they are activated/deactivated on that page</li>
<li>Text indicating that broken plugins can be renamed to remove them from being active</li>
<li>Description of the “Recently Active Plugins” section</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Add New Plugins
<ul>
<li>Help text for search field</li>
<li>Help text for “Popular Tags”</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Users – Your Profile
<ul>
<li>Help text for “Biographical Info”</li>
<li>Help text for “Sessions”</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Tools
<ul>
<li>Description paragraphs for “Press This”</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Tools – Import
<ul>
<li>Description paragraph for “Import”</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Tools – Export
<ul>
<li>Description paragraphs for “Export”</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Settings – General
<ul>
<li>Extra help text after input fields for “Tagline”, “Site Address (URL)”, “Email Address”, “Timezone”</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Settings – Writing
<ul>
<li>Label for “Update Services”</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Settings – Reading
<ul>
<li>Extra description for “Search engine visibility”</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Settings – Discussion
<ul>
<li>Description of what avatars are</li>
<li>Description of purpose of default avatar</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Settings – Media
<ul>
<li>Text that explains sizes represent maximum dimensions in pixels of images uploaded to Media Library</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Settings – Permalinks
<ul>
<li>Help text about “Common Settings”</li>
<li>Help text about “Optional”</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Settings – Privacy
<ul>
<li>Paragraphs of text describing the Privacy Policy page</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
NOTE: This plugin does NOT remove input field labels or section headers, nor anything containing actual data. In a few cases, descriptive text is left intact when it is of enough importance to warrant retention, or the markup structure does not facilitate easy removal.
Links: <a href="https://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/admin-expert-mode/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin Homepage</a> | <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/admin-expert-mode/" rel="ugc">Plugin Directory Page</a> | <a href="https://github.com/coffee2code/admin-expert-mode/" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a> | <a href="https://coffee2code.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Author Homepage</a>
<h3>Developer Documentation</h3>
Developer documentation can be found in <a href="https://github.com/coffee2code/admin-expert-mode/blob/master/DEVELOPER-DOCS.md" rel="nofollow ugc">DEVELOPER-DOCS.md</a>. That documentation covers the hooks provided by the plugin.
As an overview, these are the hooks provided by the plugin:
<ul>
<li><code>c2c_admin_expert_mode</code> : Filter to dynamically determine whether the admin expert mode should be active.</li>
<li><code>c2c_admin_expert_mode_default</code> : Filter to customize whether admin expert mode should be active for users by default or not.</li>
</ul>

Admin Expert Mode

Excellent code as always from Scott Reilly. This has saved me so much time trying to trim down the Admin Interface. Thank you :)

Excellent Plugin

Allows users to hide inline documentation and help text that are geared for beginning users in the WordPress admin.

Duplicate Widget vs Admin Expert Mode