Simple CMS WordPress Plugin

Posted on Mar 14th 2008 by Ryan.

A while back, my friends Jenel Bode and Natasha Munro asked me to design websites for them. They only required basic static pages for their site and to save confusing them with comments, posts, pings, excerpts, trackbacks and all that other extraneous stuff, I removed it from the admin panel. I am now releasing that simplified admin panel for the masses as a WordPress plugin.

Please note that this plugin only works with Version 2.5 or above.

Download

Ryans Simple CMS WordPress Plugin Version 1.2.4 Download

Demo

There is now a demonstration site available for you to edit

Simple CMS Plugin Demo site
Simple CMS Plugin Demo Admin Panel

Username: test
Password: test

Feel free to add whatever content you want as long as it isn’t potentially offensive to others.

Installing

Simply upload the folder to your plugins directory, then head to the plugins page in your WordPress admin panel and activate the plugin.

If you are a “WordPress Administrator” you will not see any difference, but if you log in as a “WordPress Editor” or below, you will see a vastly simplified administration panel suitable for simple static websites.

To modify the items shown in the admin menu, go to the “Simple CMS” options page in the “Settings” menu.

Theming

To help with developing themes for static websites powered by WordPress, I’ve released the Simple CMS WordPress Theme too (demo).

Notes

The plugin doesn’t do anything particularly exotic, the original code is still there, it is just hidden from view via CSS. Users will still be able to access the hidden areas of the admin panel if they know what they are doing.

Examples

http://freshedgehockey.com/
http://fgw.org.nz/
If you are using the plugin in a live environment then leave a comment below and I’ll post it here in the examples section

Alternatives

I don’t know of any alternatives to this plugin. The closest is the CMS Menu plugin which changes the post/pages order in the admin menu.

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  2. Ryan on: April 27th, 2008 at 11:42 pm

    Good point Magnus. I hadn’t thought of that.

    Yes I will add that into a future version of the plugin. I’m quite busy at the moment with paid projects, so won’t be able to get on to that for quite a while though unfortunately. If you need it urgently, feel free to hit the donation button on the right hand side as that will bump this job up the queue a bit.

  3. Magnus on: April 27th, 2008 at 10:10 pm

    Hey Ryan

    I tried this on a client project, but its missing the custom fields on the pages.

    Can you add an option to show the same fields as they would without the plugin installed?

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