WordPress Toolbox

This repository is a collection of code snippets I reuse all the time. The focus is on drop-in code snippets. Pull requests are welcome. Say hi to me on Twitter: @emersonthis.

Client-proofing and Dashboard customization:

• Removing buttons from the TinyMCE visual editor
• Hide second row of TinyMCE buttons
• Inject text/instructions into the post edit screen
• Remove "Add Media" button from editor
• Remove theme customizer buttons
• Remove dashboard menu items
• Disable visual editor
• Remove quicktags from text editor
• Require excerpt for posts
• Customize the block formats in TinyMCE
• Remove "Additional CSS" section from customizer
• Customize Tiny MCE block styles

Theme customizations

• Modify excerpt length
• Remove prefixes from archive page titles
• Customize the_excerpt() "Read more"
• Get nav items from a submenu
• Add item to wp_nav_menu()
• Disable captions

Security / Analytics

• Log searches

Piklist

• Warn the admin if Piklist isn't installed...
• Custom post type
• Custom taxonomy [coming soon]

Performance

• Remove unnecessary junk in the header