Pär Thernström

Earth People

<p>With EP Admin Messages you can show messages in the admin area of WordPress. Each message can be shown at multiple places and can be limited to only be shown to specific user groups using capabilities.</p>
<p>This plugin requires that you add a config file to your themes folder. It’s mostly useful for theme developers that want tho show messages in the admin to the users of their site.</p>
<h4>Plugin features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Show messages in WordPress Admin</li>
<li>Show messages in different places</li>
<li>Show different messages for different users</li>
<li>Format messages using HTML</li>
<li>Stores settings in a JSON-file. No config screen!</li>
<li>Suitable for website and theme developers that want to push message changes automatically.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Messages are shown where you want them to be shown</h4>
<p>You have full control over where your messages will be shown.<br />
Each message can be placed in one or several of the following places:</p>
<ul>
<li>dashboard</li>
<li>overview screen for posts, pages, and custom post types</li>
<li>edit screen for posts, pages and custom post types</li>
<li>posts with a specific slug or a slug based on a wildcard</li>
<li>user overview screen and on user profiles</li>
<li>plugin install/update page</li>
</ul>
<h4>Messages are only shown to the users that you choose</h4>
<p>Each message can be limited to be shown only to users with a specific <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Glossary#Capabilities" rel="nofollow ugc">capability</a> or <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#Roles" rel="nofollow ugc">role</a>.</p>
<p>You can for example show one message to your editors, i.e. users with the capability “edit_posts”, and another message to your admins, i.e. users with the capability “manage_options”.</p>
<h4>Messages can be selectd to be shown only on the posts you choose</h4>
<p>Messages can be limited to only be shown on posts that match a specific slug, or a slug that matches a wildcard.</p>
<p>This way it’s easy to for example show page specific information, letting a user know what a page is for, what they should put in in, and so on.</p>
<h4>JSON-based config file</h4>
<p>All settings are configured with a config file (<a href="https://github.com/EarthPeople/ep-admin-messages/blob/master/ep-config-example.json" rel="nofollow ugc">view example config</a>) that uses JSON and that you put in the themes directory.</p>
<p>This means that there are no settings for the user to change. This also means that you can add messages using your regular deploy method. Just upload an updated config file and you’re done. No database syncing needed; hooray!</p>
<h4>Usage scenarios</h4>
<p>To give you an idea what this plugin may be used for, I’ll give you a list of what I do with it.</p>
<p>EP Simple Messages can be used to…</p>
<ul>
<li>… write documentation for users and developers.</li>
<li>… show users what <a href="http://mustache.github.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">Mustache tags</a> are available for a specific post. You know, things like <code>{{user.firstname}}</code> or <code>{{campaign.name}}</code>.</li>
<li>… show a message on the dashboard with support info, like who made the site and who they should contact for support questions.</li>
<li>… let the user know what shortcodes that are available for all posts.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Open source</h4>
<p>The <a href="https://github.com/EarthPeople/ep-admin-messages" rel="nofollow ugc">source code for EP Admin Messages</a> is available at GitHub.</p>


EP Admin Messages

Show messages in WP Admin. Different messages can be shown at different places, for different people.

Tony Hayes

<p>AdminSanity brings sanity through sanitization to your WordPress Admin Area. Cleanly.</p>
<p>AdminSanity started as a Gist to address the WordPress Admin Menu clutter, automatically splitting and re-ordered menu to clean up the mess that appears as more and more plugins are added to a WordPress site. This idea was inspired by <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/47012" rel="nofollow ugc">this TRAC proposal for a “Simplified WordPress Admin Navigation”</a>, as a proof of concept for a potential core Feature plugin.</p>
<p>Now, it includes modules not just for cleaning up and improving accesss to both the <em>Admin Menu</em> and <em>Admin Bar</em>, but also includes a module for turning <em>Admin Notice</em> clutter at the top of your admin screen into an tabbed notice type display interface! This means a sigh of relief guaranteed, or your money back! (Actually nevermind – it’s free – just like your Admin Area soon will be free of clutter!)</p>
<p>Oh and plus did I mention it supports responsive width changes and admin colour schemes?! 😀</p>
<h4>AdminSanity Menu</h4>
<p>The AdminSanity Menu module automatically sorts the Admin Menu into three sections:</p>
<ul>
<li><em>Content</em> – Dashboard, all Post Types | Media, Links and Comments</li>
<li><em>Manage</em> – Settings, [Plugin Settings], Appearance, Plugins, Users, Tools</li>
<li><em>Extensions</em> – any other extra top level menu items not present by default</li>
</ul>
<p>And, to add an extra layer of navigation accessibility, a meta-menu level has been added to each of the Admin Menu sections, with the corresponding labels: <em>Content</em>, <em>Manage</em> and <em>Extensions</em>. So that rather than trying to replace the existing Admin Menu design (which would be hard to make backwards compatible), it is just adapted to provide improved menu access.</p>
<p>Additionally, a new “Plugin Settings” menu item has been added, with any Settings submenu items moved there <em>that are not there by default</em> (ie. from WordPress itself.) This greatly improves the ease of navigation in your admin area when searching for either Core or Plugin settings.</p>
<p>Then, for even faster ease of access, an “Expand menu” icon has been added at the top of the Admin Menu (to complement the existing “Collapse menu” icon at the bottom) which expands to provide a full page three column display of the entire Admin Menu with all submenus expanded so you can instantly see every menu at once. Wow!</p>
<h4>AdminSanity Notices</h4>
<p>The AdminSanity Notice module attempts to solve probably <strong>the</strong> most long-standing thorn in any WordPress user’s side – the distracting amount of <em>NOTICES</em> at the top of every single Admin page! By providing a tabbed interface for notice types (<em>Error</em>, <em>Update</em>, <em>Warnings</em>, <em>Messages</em>, <em>Notices</em>), you get a colour-coded and at-a-glance display of how many notices of each type there are, so you can prioritize and stay on task.</p>
<p>Clicking on any of the notice types instantly displays all the notices for that type. Nice! And as an added bonus, if you want to access Notices by their user notice level, you can do that too. Clicking on the <em>Notices</em> label reveals an extra tab menu that is sorted by notice type instead: <em>All</em>, <em>General</em>, <em>Network</em>, <em>Admin</em> and <em>User</em>. Neat!</p>
<h4>AdminSanity Bar</h4>
<p>After experiencing the Admin Bar getting cluttered also and splitting itself into two lines (and thus making some of the bar items unclickable!) I decided to add some responsive height handling to fix the bar display when this happened. And also, add a new “Shuffle” Cycler icon to the start of the Admin Bar, which cycles the visibility of the different Admin Bar items. Each click of the icon will cycle through three display options, giving you faster access to what you were looking for:</p>
<ul>
<li>All Bar menu items (Default Admin Bar view)</li>
<li>Default Bar menu items (added by WordPress)</li>
<li>Non-default Bar menu items (from plugins and themes)</li>
</ul>
<p>And again, similar to the Admin Menu, for faster ease of access to all Admin Bar items at once, a “Dropdown” toggle item is added at the end of the Admin Bar, providing an expanded view of all bar menu items and their submenus (including nested submenus which are accessible via dropdown arrows for those submenu items.) Nifty!</p>
<h4>Come Get Some Admin Sanity!</h4>
<p>Isn’t it time for <strong>AdminSanity</strong> to bring some sanity back to your Admin Area?!</p>


AdminSanity

AdminSanity brings sanity through sanitization to your WordPress Admin Area. Cleanly.

EP Admin Messages vs AdminSanity