MRW Simplified Editor
Focus editors on making great content and letting their themes make it beautiful by removing block editor features.
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Main benefits
Simplifies block editor
Hides infrequently used blocks
Focuses on semantic content
Improves editor usability
Encourages consistent formatting
About this plugin
Author: mrwweb
Categories: Content Management
Version: 2.13.0
Last updated: 12-03-2024
WordPress version: 6.0
Tested up to: 6.5.5
PHP version required: 5.6.20
Languages: Svenska
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Overview
This WordPress plugin is designed to help site editors create semantic content and maintain consistent formatting across the site by simplifying the block editor. By removing less frequently used blocks, styles, and settings, it allows editors to focus on content creation without being overwhelmed by options. Targeted at client sites, the plugin emphasizes a streamlined editorial experience, hiding features like certain core and Jetpack blocks, complex text styles, and default color settings while promoting the use of the Media Library for images. Enhancements like highlighting contrast errors and simplifying the "Save draft" button further improve usability. Ideal for editors who appreciate minimalism, this plugin is thoroughly discussed in the creator's "A WordPress Formatting Manifesto." Developers can also customize the hidden features via provided filters. The plugin ensures compatibility with the latest WordPress versions and invites contributions on GitHub.
Simplified Block Editor
- Hides infrequently used core blocks such as Verse, Table, Audio, Video, etc.
- Removes all core block styles and the 'Default style' feature
- Filters provided for developers to adjust hidden features
Improved Editor Focus
- Increases prominence of contrast errors
- Styles 'Save draft' as a button
- Encourages use of Media Library by hiding 'Upload' and 'Insert from URL' options
Streamlined Classic Editor
- Reduces editor to a single row of essential buttons
- Includes buttons for headings, bold, italic, links, and more
- Supports distraction-free mode
Consistent Formatting
- Helps editors create semantic content styled with the theme
- Ensures consistent formatting across the site
- Portable content that maintains styling integrity
Rating and reviews
Bjarne Oldrup
13 Dec, 2023
Show only the options and blocks you need in the Gutenberg block editor, making it simpler and cleaner for editors, authors, and you.
WordPress core, along with my theme, offers me a total of 106 blocks, of which I use 22. By disabling unused blocks, the block insertion workflow gets a lot simpler. Furthermore, I avoid situations where an editor or post author uses blocks that are not styled properly or that I cannot support.
I style components (patterns) globally instead of styling the individual block on every page. Now I can enjoy a much cleaner and faster block editor experience. Thank you, Mark! đ¤
crowinck
04 Jun, 2018
Itâs easy to underestimate how much skill goes into formatting content to look nice in the WordPress editor. This plugin not only makes it easier for users to learn how to work with tinyMCE, but it also helps them get better results by removing buttons that really shouldnât be there in the first place.
With this plugin, I donât have to spend my time explaining to every client why they should never use the color tool, the underline tool, or heading 1. Plus, no one will ever get confused because the second row of buttons is hidden, and they donât know where it went.
Developers can configure this plugin as they need to, everyone else can just activate it and let it do its thing. Itâs a great plugin.
Patrick Boehner
30 Sep, 2017
The title of the plugin might be a mouthful, but it does exactly what i wanted. Simplifies the tinymce editor to a single line of the most useful options and removes everything thats not.
This is something you could do on your own, but in situations where you donât want to maintain your own code, this plugin is darn simple and useful.
Sheila
26 Feb, 2015
This is elegant. No more explaining to clients all the things they should not use in the editing menu (underlining, full justification, etc). So clean and simple. Just whatâs needed. And I was happy to find that it worked in Divi too.
