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Chris Dillon

Wider Admin Menu is a standalone plugin built, maintained & operated by the friendly folks over at <a href="https://www.machothemes.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">MachoThemes</a>.
Wider Admin Menu is a lightweight plugin that lets you set the width of your admin menu from the default <code>160px</code> up to <code>300px</code>.
A separate stylesheet is also included if you wish to avoid Yet Another Plugin. See FAQ.
This plugin will leave no trace! If you delete the plugin, all settings will be removed from the database. Guaranteed. However, simply deactivating it will leave your settings in place, as expected.

Wider Admin Menu

Great helper plugin! I just copied the css to my build system and made the width a scss variable. Fast adjustments! :))

Great helper


This should be the default Admin left navigation width!



Brilliant plugin - I just wish that Gutenberg editor and others recognised this width, as they seem to be left-aligned to the original width, hiding an important part of their interfaces.



Maybe there's another way to implement this? Or maybe an alternative would be knocking the font size down a couple of pixels but within the original width for less wrapped text, or maybe just change the way text wraps.



Nice try though, appreciate someone making the effort for the obvious issue that core has missed.


Should be default


I did not realize that narrow Admin Menu is what makes me uncomfortable until I saw this plugin. 



Installed it and it indeed does help.


Simple and it does help

mrwweb

This plugin is useful for people who regularly use all or most of the post statuses with Posts, Pages, or Custom Post Types. Post Status Menu Items does the following:
<ol>
<li>Show each post status and number of posts with that status (e.g. “Drafts (7)”) in each post type’s admin menu.</li>
<li>Show the number of Posts with each post status in the “Right Now” / “At a Glance” admin Dashboard Widget.</li>
<li>Show post status icons with each status at the top of admin post list pages.</li>
</ol>
Options give control over which post statuses are displayed and in which menus those statuses are displayed. Post statuses in the “Right Now” / “At a Glance” admin Dashboard widget can also be turned off.
Screenshots of all features and settings are available on <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-status-menu-items/screenshots/" rel="ugc">the Screenshots page</a>.
Notes
<ul>
<li>Plugin settings available on Settings > Writing.</li>
<li>Statuses with 0 posts are never displayed.</li>
<li>Posts are the only post type for which the post status menu items are enabled by default.</li>
</ul>
This plugin works with custom statuses created by <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/edit-flow/" rel="ugc">Edit Flow</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/archived-post-status/" rel="ugc">Archived Post Status</a>, <a href="http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/synchronized-json/" rel="nofollow ugc">Advanced Custom Field PRO “Sync Available” status</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-page-ordering/" rel="ugc">Simple Page Ordering</a>, and <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/register_post_status" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>register_post_status()</code></a>.
<h4>Other Plugins by MRWweb</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/feature-a-page-widget/" rel="ugc">Feature a Page Widget</a> – Shows a summary of any Page in any sidebar.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/mrw-web-design-simple-tinymce/" rel="ugc">MRW Web Design Simple TinyMCE</a> – A compact page editor to encourage good formatting.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-type-archive-descriptions/" rel="ugc">Post Type Archive Description</a> – Enables an editable description for a post type to display at the top of the post type archive page.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/hawaiian-characters/" rel="ugc">Hawaiian Characters</a> – Adds the correct characters with diacriticals to the WordPress editor Character Map for Hawaiian</li>
</ul>

Post Status Menu Items

Adds post status links–e.g. "Draft" (7)–to post type admin menus and a few other nice goodies.

Wider Admin Menu vs Post Status Menu Items