“Clutter Free” Joins the Party

Posted on April 28, 2007 by Joshua Sigar

Custom Write Panel lets users display (virtually) everything they want and hide (virtually) everything they don’t want.

And here’s what you get when you display only what you want and hide only what you don’t want.

custom write panel screenshot 7

Want a clutter-free Write Post panel now? Head over to txfx.net where I stole the code from.

By the way, I’ve been staring at WordPress Admin screen for continuously hundreds of hours and, boy, my eyes are hurting; it needs some serious face-lift.

34 thoughts on ““Clutter Free” Joins the Party”

awell on April 28, 2007 at 21:02 said:

Great job!
info on May 1, 2007 at 05:13 said:

Try WP Tiger Administration: http://orderedlist.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-tiger-administration/
Nboy on May 1, 2007 at 06:16 said:

Clutter free is a great little plugin, good work for integrating it!

Any news when custom-write-panel is going to be available, man I’d love to try it out on one of my sites!
max on May 3, 2007 at 15:53 said:

will intergate it the moment it is released! right now my buddies i make pages for have so many opportunities to click the wrong fields. will be great to present them an organized input mask.
Travis Dahl on May 9, 2007 at 10:30 said:

Man, I can’t wait!!! This is gonna be the most useful plugin EVER!!! Where is it? How can I get my hands on it? I am foaming at the mouth for this plugin.
ArjanV on May 10, 2007 at 05:05 said:

Hi,

Very nice work.

When will it be available?
Jeroen Onstenk on May 11, 2007 at 06:05 said:

Ok, count me in with the groupies! This plugin could make an enormous change for WordPress.

*press F5 to check an update*
Jorge on May 11, 2007 at 09:17 said:

I feel like a little kid waiting for Christmas!… Naah, it’s more like a crack-head in need of a fix!
Mario on May 11, 2007 at 10:59 said:

Yeppers. I am really eager to try it out! I actually really agree with the Jeroen on this being a major help to wordpress. I’ve started using WP for non-blogs in places where Joomla would be overkill. Still, it’s too challenging for non-technical users to deal with too many custom fields, seriously limiting my ability to set clients up on only wordpress platforms.

I just thought of this as I was writing, I think from now on I’m going to start including an item on my project estimates for OS software. You should encourage other developers who use this to do the same, you might even list a recommended amount.

This would also help those non-technical clients to better value the work of the OS community. Psychologically, giving stuff away for free implies that it’s inferior. Since technical users really have no concept of what goes into OS, they’re more included to fall back on their default assumptions: free = lower quality. Coming from a business, non-technical background, I would say that biz managers are even more prone to believe this. Let’s change that.

-Mario
Gustavo Barron on May 17, 2007 at 06:21 said:

When it would be ready?

This looks like my wet WP GUI dream come true and Im really looking forward to this.
Jeriko on May 19, 2007 at 09:05 said:

If you need any help, let us know! Any chance to expect a not so distant release?
Profound on May 25, 2007 at 10:09 said:

Like a little kid in a candy shop, I’m anxious to get my hands on this. Hopefully soon?
max on May 25, 2007 at 10:47 said:

checking in every two or three days ;)
Travis Dahl on May 30, 2007 at 10:48 said:

Checking everyday. Any ballpark release date?
chris rhee on May 30, 2007 at 20:53 said:

I’m definitely eager to try this out as well. Any updates on it? Thanks for putting in the work!
Robin Message on May 31, 2007 at 17:00 said:

I’d be keen to use this, even if fit is not fully finished.

I am planning a recipe editing tool that can export into Google Base, and this would be very useful for editing the meta-data for each recipe.

I’ve worked as a PHP developer, so would be happy to help on the project and contribute back any changes I make.

Thanks,
Robin Message
Travis Dahl on June 1, 2007 at 12:27 said:

One question, I am currently trying out “clutter Free” and it is cool, except I wish the admin could hide things on a global level instead of each user deciding what they want to hide. Is your plugin going to be the same? Or is the hiding going to be a admin only option?
Eric on June 6, 2007 at 01:04 said:

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Joshua on June 6, 2007 at 05:14 said:

Eric,

Thanks. Should be fixed now.
Manne on June 7, 2007 at 07:05 said:

I just tested the last version (1.000b?) and it’s starting to look very good! Everything seems to be working as well
Joshua on June 8, 2007 at 00:03 said:

You tested already? Honestly, I haven’t. You may end up with some orphaned data as you create/delete stuff so I would strongly advised against using it in production blog. By the way, when you deactivate the plugin, it will drop all the tables it creates when you active it, so you’ll lose all the Custom Write Panel data, but your meta values should still be there.

Anyway, if you want to start giving feedback, please do so in the forum that I just set up.

http://forum.rhymedcode.net/
Joan Planas on June 10, 2007 at 02:52 said:

hello, great plugin, but.. where this plugin Custom Write Panel?

thanks
Mosey on June 10, 2007 at 19:10 said:

I’m using 2.1.3 (and have signed up on the Forums as well) but alas it doesn’t seem to want to work on me. Could it be that the plugin clashes with the Custom Fields plugin?
Thanks!
Ricky on June 11, 2007 at 12:03 said:

When will we see this radical plugin surface?
Mosey on June 11, 2007 at 14:46 said:

It’s already available via the WordPress Plugins database.
http://www.wordpress.org/extend/plugins/
max on June 12, 2007 at 15:23 said:

on the statistic tab there it says its been up there since april. i rather wait till joshua declares it alpha… or okay… 4 post ago he advised not to use it in production blog.
Jeff on June 12, 2007 at 16:43 said:

Seriously man, finish this, your fans are clamoring for it.

I can hear them now, first faintly, but the cry is growing, “Joshua! Joshua!”. A little louder now, it is beginning to fill the room. “Joshua! Joshua!”

I’m a BA, I’ll test this and get it pushed to prod.
TF on June 13, 2007 at 01:53 said:

hi,this plugin cannot select the templete? because the selection box of the templet doesn’t come out…
Mosey on June 13, 2007 at 06:31 said:

I’m currently testing it on a test blog, which will become live in the future :)
Diarmaid on June 13, 2007 at 12:12 said:

Hi,
This promises to be an excellent plugin, its exactly what I’m looking for, for a personal project – surfseconds.com, I could use it to post different surfing equipment. Looking forward to your release, many many thanks (in advance) !!
Jonah on June 13, 2007 at 13:12 said:

I just tried this on a test site yesterday and it looks very slick! Cannot wait until it is done – if you need any help testing it’s what I do for a living so let me know… Thanks!
Ricky on June 15, 2007 at 08:54 said:

Clutter Free gets rid of image upload. That’s not good!
Mosey on June 15, 2007 at 10:39 said:

It works great for me at the moment :)
Will on November 1, 2007 at 12:10 said:

Nice plugin, will use it on my other WP blogs.