WordPress Tweaks Plugin
Adds many must-have options for tweaking comments, posts, media, multisite, the administration back-end, and more.
WordPress Tweaks is a powerful yet simple plugin to help you push the boundaries of WordPress by fine-tuning its many aspects. This multi-purpose plugin specializes in simple toggle-on/off changes and dropdown selections. It adds many useful settings pertaining to comments, posts, media, the administration back-end, and much more. Some tweaks can even replace plugins that you may already have installed.
The WordPress Tweaks plugin adds a “Tweaks” page to your “Settings” menu. Each individual tweak can be enabled/disabled at will using a checkbox or dropdown. An instant search bar makes it a snap to find the tweak you’re looking for.
The tweaks are as follows:
- Admin
- Disable the admin bar on the front-end
- Disable the Dashboard
- Disable tag autocomplete
- Disable WordPress’s admin footer text/links
- Comments and Pings
- Disable self-pinging
- Dofollow comment author links
- Dofollow comment body links
- Open external comment links in new windows
- Media
- Default media inserter tab (options: From Computer, From URL, Gallery, Media Library)
- JPEG Quality
- Multisite
- Let site admins edit the “Update Services” list
- Posts
- Disable post revisions
- Force excerpts on archives
- Open external post links in new windows
- Add a “Continue reading” link to excerpts
- Updates
- Core update auto-installation (options: disabled, minor only, major and minor)
Download it now and begin tweaking!
Supported Languages: English, Spanish, and Polish
Screenshots
The admin page of WordPress Tweaks 2.0
Use the instant search bar to quickly find the tweak you're looking for
Changelog
Version 2.2 (May 23, 2014)
- Feature: Added the “Core update auto-installation” tweak
- New Translation: Spanish (es_ES) by Andrew Kurtis of Web Hosting Hub
- New Translation: Polish (pl_PL) by MichaĆ Hunger
- Improvement: Made aesthetic and usability enhancements to the settings page
- Improvement: A dialog appears if you leave the settings page after making changes without saving
- Improvement: When the “Disable the admin bar” tweak is activated, the “Toolbar” checkbox option is now removed from all user profile pages
- Removed the “Automatically scroll to the post editor” tweak, since it has little effect under the current WordPress admin interface
Version 2.1 (June 4, 2012)
- Feature: Added the “Let site admins edit the Update Services list” tweak (visible on multisite setups only)
- Bugfix: Fixed CSS conflict that caused search results highlighting to spill over into adjacent text characters
- Improvement: Updated the text for the “Disable the admin bar” tweak to reflect that, as of WordPress 3.2, the tweak only takes effect on the front-end
- Removed the “Disable the Search Engines Blocked notice” tweak (no longer needed in WP 3.2+)
- Removed the “Disable the Flash uploader” tweak (no longer needed in WP 3.3+)
Version 2.0 (May 27, 2011)
- Feature: Added an instant search bar to the plugin admin page
- Feature: Added the “Disable the admin bar” tweak
- Feature: Added the “Disable the ‘Search Engines Blocked’ notice” tweak
- Feature: Added the “Disable WordPress’s admin footer text/links” tweak
- Feature: Added the “Default media inserter tab” tweak
- Feature: Added the “JPEG Quality” tweak
- Bugfix: Increased browser compatibility for the “Automatically scroll to the post editor” tweak
- Bugfix: The “Disable the Dashboard” tweak now works on the latest versions of WordPress
- Bugfix: The “Disable tag autocomplete” tweak now works on the latest versions of WordPress
- Improvement: Replaced deprecated ereg functions with preg functions
- Improvement: The “Open external links in new windows” tweaks now use 5 lines of jQuery each instead of 30+ lines of custom JavaScript
- Improvement: Now uses the new script/style queueing API introduced in WP 2.6
- Improvement: Now uses the new options.php API introduced in WP 2.8
- Improvement: Plugin now fails gracefully when installed on an old, unsupported version of WordPress
- Removed the “Remove the width restraint on administration pages” tweak (no longer needed in WP 2.7+)
- Removed the “Show comments in reverse order” tweak (no longer needed in WP 2.7+)
- Removed 5 nofollow tweaks (Google no longer supports nofollow-based PageRank sculpting as of 2008)
- Removed the “Disable directory listing for my plugins folder” tweak (no longer needed in WP 2.8+)
- Removed the “Hide WordPress’s version number from my theme and feeds” tweak
- Removed the “Add code references to favicon.ico” tweak (not needed for modern browsers)
- Removed the “Remove white space from pages list” tweak
- Removed the “WordPress 2.3 Legacy Fixes”
- Compatibility: WordPress Tweaks now requires WordPress 3.1 or above
Version 1.8 (June 30, 2008)
- Added the “Automatically scroll to the post editor” tweak
- Removed unnecessary JavaScript HTTP calls
- Removed unused code
- Added a POT file to the plugin distribution
- Fixed a WordPress 2.6 compatibility bug
- Other minor enhancements
Version 1.7 (June 16, 2008)
- Added internationalization support to all strings
- Added nonce support to the administration interface to guard against unauthorized changes
- Other minor enhancements and fixes
Version 1.6 (June 10, 2008)
- Added the “Disable the Dashboard” tweak
- Added the “Disable directory listing for my plugins folder” tweak
- Added information on version requirements for some tweaks
Version 1.5 (June 6, 2008)
- Added 9 new tweaks!
- Overhauled the administration interface
- Added helpful descriptions to many tweaks
- The footer counter is now controlled by a checkbox instead of a constant
- Other minor enhancements
Version 1.0 (April 28, 2008)
- Should now be compatible with the new plugin auto-updater in WordPress 2.5.
Version 0.1.2 (March 14, 2008)
- Resolved a minor, aesthetic IE CSS rendering issue.
- Other minor changes.
Version 0.1.1 (February 28, 2008)
- Added the “Remove ‘nofollow’ from comment author links” tweak.
- Added a donation link in the administration panel.
- Made an admin change for WordPress 2.5 conformity.
- Fixed bugs that prevented the “Open external comment links in new windows” tweak from working.
- Fixed a bug that caused the tag cloud to be removed from the Widgets administration when the “Only show the tag cloud widget on the homepage” tweak was enabled.
- Fixed a duplicate JavaScript function problem.
Version 0.1 (February 27, 2008)