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<p>A plugin that adds “Add”, “Save”, “Restore” and “Delete” buttons to the Widgets configuration page with the following<br />
functionality:</p>
<ul>
<li>Add: Adds a new named widget layout and saves the current widget layout against the new layout name.</li>
<li>Save: Saves the current widget layout against the selected layout name.</li>
<li>Restore: Restores the previously saved widget layout. If the theme name shown next to the layout name in the<br />
drop-down matches the current theme, widgets will be restored to the sidebar they were located in when the layout was<br />
saved.</li>
<li>Delete: Deletes the selected widget layout – does not modify the current layout of the widgets.</li>
</ul>
<p>Note that the behaviour has changed from version 1 – widget layouts are not automatically restored when themes are<br />
switched. Layout choice is now a manual step since it is possible to save multiple widget layouts for a given theme.<br />
Once a theme has been activated, use the “Layouts” drop-down to select a previously saved layout that matches the<br />
current theme.</p>
<p>The reset button has been removed as it was too easy to remove all widgets with one click.</p>
<h4>Typical Usage</h4>
<p>This plugin is useful for trying different widget layouts, making it easy to revert back to a previous layout if the<br />
current layout is not working. It can also be useful when switching between themes. Different themes will offer different<br />
sidebar areas, and often there is not a direct mapping from one theme’s sidebars to another. This plugin can be used<br />
to save a widget layout for each theme. When the themes are switched, the appropriate widget layout can then be restored<br />
saving the time it usually takes to drag each widget from an inactive sidebar into the correct sidebar.</p>
<p>A typical process would be as follows:</p>
<ol>
<li>Type your own layout name into the text field, and click “Add” to add and save the current widget layout. This name<br />
is now available in the “Layouts” drop-down.</li>
<li>Rearrange the widgets, move them to different sidebars, or move them into the inactive widgets box.</li>
<li>Type a new layout name, and click “Add” to add a second widget layout.</li>
<li>Select the layout name you created in step 1 from the drop-down, and click “Restore”. Your widgets will be<br />
repositioned to match this layout.</li>
<li>Select your layout name from step 3, and click “Restore”. Your widgets will now be repositioned to match your<br />
second layout.</li>
</ol>


Widget Saver

Saves the current widget layout and allows the layout to be restored at a later date.

Frank Bueltge

Inpsyde GmbH

Simon Kraft

WP Media

<p>If you manage a multi-author WordPress blog or WordPress sites for clients, then you may have wondered if it was possible to clean up the WordPress admin area for your users? There are lots of things in the WordPress admin area that your users don’t need to see or use. This plugin help you to hide unnecessary items from WordPress admin area.</p>
<p>Adminimize makes it easy to remove items from view based on a user’s role.</p>
<h4>What does this plugin do?</h4>
<p>The plugin changes the administration backend and gives you the power to assign rights on certain parts. Admins can activate/deactivate every part of the menu and even parts of the sub-menu. Meta fields can be administered separately for posts and pages. Certain parts of the write menu can be deactivated separately for admins or non-admins. The header of the backend is minimized and optimized to give you more space and the structure of the menu gets changed to make it more logical – this can all be done per user so each role and their resulting users can have his own settings.</p>
<h4>Support Custom Post Type</h4>
<p>The plugin support all functions also for custom post types, automatically in the settings page.</p>
<h4>Support Custom Options on all different post types</h4>
<p>It is possible to add own options to hide areas in the back-end of WordPress. It is easy and you must only forgive a ID or class, a selector, of the markup, that you will hide.</p>
<h4>Compatibility with plugins for MetaBoxes in Write-area</h4>
<p>You can add your own options, you must only check for css selectors.</p>
<h4>Help with “Your own options”</h4>
<p>See the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/328449" title="Plugin: Adminimize Help with Your own options (3 posts)" rel="ugc">entry on the WP community forum</a> for help with this great possibility.</p>
<h4>License</h4>
<p>Good news, this plugin is free for everyone! Since it’s released under the GPL, you can use it free of charge on your personal or commercial blog. But if you enjoy this plugin, you can thank me and leave a <a href="http://bueltge.de/wunschliste/" title="Wishliste and Donate" rel="nofollow ugc">small donation</a> for the time I’ve spent writing and supporting this plugin. And I really don’t want to know how many hours of my life this plugin has already eaten 😉</p>
<h4>Translations</h4>
<p>The plugin comes with various translations, please refer to the <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_in_Your_Language" title="Installing WordPress in Your Language" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Codex</a> for more information about activating the translation. If you want to help to translate the plugin to your language, please have a look at the sitemap.pot file which contains all definitions and may be used with a <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/" rel="nofollow ugc">gettext</a> editor like <a href="http://www.poedit.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">Poedit</a> (Windows) or use, I prefers this, the <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/adminimize" rel="nofollow ugc">translation service from wordpress.org</a>.</p>


Adminimize

Adminimize that lets you hide 'unnecessary' items from the WordPress backend

Widget Saver vs Adminimize