Simple CMS WordPress Plugin
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 the yet to be released Version 2.5 - due to be released next week.
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
Since WordPress Version 2.5 is still in Beta, I’m releasing this plugin as a Beta too. But once WordPress Version 2.5 is officially released and I’ve had a chance to test it, then the plugin will come out of Beta.
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.
45 Responses to “Simple CMS WordPress Plugin”
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Dennis on: March 25th, 2008 at 12:22 am
Great plugin, just what I need! There seems to be a > too much in line 54 though
Ryan on: March 17th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
I’ve decided to take Giovanni’s advice and add a demo site.
Click here to visit the site
And click here to visit the admin panel
Username: test
Password: test
Feel free to add whatever content you want as long as it isn’t potentially offensive to others please.
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Ryan on: March 15th, 2008 at 9:51 am
Giovanni - Yeah, a demo would be nice, bt I’m not keen on opening up an administration panel to the public as I’m not sure what sort of security risks may be involved with that.
Giovanni on: March 15th, 2008 at 8:39 am
It would be cool, if you set up a demo site for people see withou download the plugin first.
But anyway it seems really cool.
congrats.
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Ryan on: March 14th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
The options page has now been added to the plugin and there is an option in there to display the plugins menu item.
Ryan on: March 14th, 2008 at 11:46 am
Keith S - I might add an options page with the ability to control what people see and don’t see in the menu eventually and I’ll have an option in there for keeping the plugins page.
Ryan on: March 14th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Chris - ROTFLMAO
Chris on: March 14th, 2008 at 11:31 am
Ryan,
You are like a God of Wordpress.
I humbly sacrifice a cattlebeast in your honour.
Being me, I also ate said cattlebeast.
Keith S. on: March 14th, 2008 at 4:51 am
Thanks for the plug. I had considered going as far as you have with my plugin, but it was more-or-less a one-off thing I did for a client who decided not to use it, so I released it into the wild.
The only thing I would recommend is to leave the Plugins menu. It’s a nit-picky thing, but even in a simple CMS, I can see where someone might want to add a plugin or two.
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