Simplified write post area

[Andrea_R]

Does anyone know offhand of any plugin that will simplify the write or edit post area? I'm having a devil of a time trying to find something.

I mostly need to get rid of all the category / tag  & advanced options underneath.

[Andrea_R]

I think I may have found one:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/adminimize/

Also this guy http://bueltge.de/wordpress_plugins/ looks like he has some pretty snazzy plugins. (note: in German.)

[ZappoMan]

I have recently solved this problem using a php ob_handler that removes the html for things like custom fields, etc.

In a previous life, I had done this with a core hack... but I've now come to realize that core hacks will only bite you later on in life.

Thoughts on this approach?

Let me know if you want a peak at my code, it's not configurable via an admin, I just always tweak the menus and pages as I see fit.

But, it's all in a plugin.

[Andrea_R]

hacks are dandy, lemme look.

[ZappoMan]

Andrea,

The hack version is, I just went in and deleted the code from edit-form-advanced.php.

The new plugin version does this.... (put this in a plugin)

Code:

/**************************************************************************************
 * function:      _delete_customfields_section()
 * description:   this is out ob_start() callback function, it removes the custom fields section
 *                html from the edit post page
 */
if (
        is_admin()
        &&
        (
            (0 === strcmp($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'],'/wp-admin/post-new.php'))
            ||
            (0 === strcmp($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'],'/wp-admin/post.php'))
            ||
            (0 === strcmp($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'],'/wp-admin/page-new.php'))
            ||
            (0 === strcmp($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'],'/wp-admin/page.php'))
        )
    )
{
    //echo "<h1>{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}</h1>";
    ob_start("_delete_customfields_section");
}

function _delete_customfields_section($input)
{
    $preg = "/^<div id=\"postcustom\"(.+)use in your theme<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>/imsU";
    $replace = '';
   
    $output = preg_replace(trim($preg), $replace, $input);

    return $output;
}

Or something like that. I've decided to use this technique for most of my admin system hacks... I think it's a pretty clean solution, I worry a little bit about performance, but these pages don't seem to generate any slower than any other pages...

You could also make this configurable by the site admin pretty easily.