WordPress Helpers

Take control of WordPress. Adds over 50 more settings to your admin.

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With WordPress Helpers you can easily:

• Customize your login screen logo and background color.
• Take control of the WordPress Admin Bar… including “Howdy”.
• Show ID’s on edit screens for Posts, Pages, Categories, Tags, Users, Media, Custom Post Types and Custom Taxonomies.
• Expose the hidden WordPress settings page.
• Disable the theme switcher.
• Remove the “Screen Options” tab.
• Disable Upgrade Notifications for WordPress, Themes and Plugins (individually).
• Hide Dashboard widgets.
• Set Dashboard columns.
• View Screen Information in the Help Tab.
• Bring back Blogrolls.

Writing

• Fully disable Emojis
• Set the default Post editor (Visual or HTML).
• Enable WYSIWYG for excerpts box.
• Set Post Editor columns.
• Totally disable the Visual Editor.
• Increase the height of the Excerpt box when writing a Post.
• Disable Autosave.
• Set the Post Per Page on the edit screen.

Reading

• Set Excerpt length by characters or words.
• Remove the “Private” and “Protected” title prefixes.
• Disable RSS Feeds.
• Delay publishing of RSS feeds.
• Add Featured Images to your RSS Feed.
• Include/Exclude Post Types in Search.
• Disable XML-RPC (WordPress 3.5 or later)
• Redirect 404’s to any page.

Discussion

• Do not allow comments on Pages.
• Remove auto linking in comments.
• Disable Self Pinging.

Appearance

• Enhanced Body/Post Classes: Browser detect, Taxonomies (including hierarchy levels), post date, has post thumbnail, author information, logged in users, multisite, odd/even (post archives only), post excerpt.
• Remove any/all WordPress default widgets.
• Run any shortcode in a widget.
• Remove WordPress version, Feed Links, RSD Link, wlwmanifest and relational links for the posts adjacent to the current post, from your theme header.

User Profiles

• Remove the Admin color scheme option from the User Profiles.
• Remove AIM, Yahoo IM, Jabber/Google Talk.

User Communication

• Change WordPress “from” email address.

Site Visitors

• Put your site into Maintenance Mode.
• Create a Private website.
• Redirect vistors to the home page after login.
• Display an notice to your users in the admin or on the front of your site.

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