3pointross

This simple plugin is designed primarily for sites that are using WordPress as a content management system, however it can be extremely useful for both. If you are using a more complex WordPress install and theme you are likely to end up with a long list of dialog boxes on the edit pages to manage the different elements of your site. This can be a usability problem for two reasons, one being that a client may not know they have control over an element because it will be hidden way down the page. Additionally you can get to a point where you have to scroll way down and up to make changes and then publish the site.
This is especially true if you are using CMS plug-ins like PODS or Flutter.
I am currently working on finding a way to better work around moving meta boxes into the right hand column. Currently doing so will still give it the behavior of being a tabbed content area until you reload the edit page. IE: It will still show / hide the content and the tab will still appear in the menu as well. Any suggestions on the logic / behavior would be greatly appreciated as I am somewhat stumped at this point.
Changes
1.75 – Improved the styling of the tabs. Improved the handling with hidden / disabled fields. Fixed javascript conflicts for drag and drop menus in WordPress 3.0

Editor Tabs

Clean up the editing pages in the administration panel by turning all of the modules and meta box's into dynamic javascript tabs.

This simple plugin is designed for sites that are using WordPress as a content management system rather than a blogging platform. Rather than have a majority of the dashboard widgets focused on new blog posts and comments it puts the sites page listing front and center in the dashboard for easier and quicker content management.
When using WordPress as a content management system typically the first action after logging in is going to the “edit pages” item in the navigation. This is wasted effort and could be streamlined by including it on the dashboard for quicker and easier access.

Dashboard Pages

This simple plugin is designed for sites that are using Wordpress as a content management system rather than a blogging platform.

Editor Tabs vs Dashboard Pages