Lately I’ve been getting pretty tired of launching sites for clients on WordPress with minimal Inline PHP or advanced HTML, only to have the client edit it with TinyMCE and subsequently save it (despite my repeated warnings).  Naturally, this almost always destroys your purdy layouts and results in multiple calls to my cell phone , usually around 4AM.

I realize the reason I’m putting people on a CMS specifically because not everyone reads PHP-code like english, so naturally they can’t be blamed for this mistake!  All other Visual Editor disablers will either disable TinyMCE site-wide or not at all, but this always conflicts with the lay-user that naturally wants to still edit their posts without doing it in HTML code.  So… how to keep them from breaking their site while allowing them the ease to still create blog posts??

My response was to create a nifty little plugin to disable the editor for the Page Editor, but not for the Post Editor.  It was simpler than I thought, and you can download it, of course, for free!

Recently, there have been many calls from the online community to cut through unnecessary clutter and show ONLY the most pertinent information one particular time.  Chrome has been the most recent rendition of this, as it incorporates its “omnibar” for virtually any task you may want to do, and a tabbed replacement for the menu bar to save valuable pixels on the user’s screen.  Some have called for even less clutter, but at what point have we created too much of not enough?

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