10 New Plugins That Make Life Easier Inside the WordPress Dashboard

Your WordPress content management system should be convenient for publishing and modifying your content and themes. When you’re trying to create content on your site, you don’t need the distraction of having to open other programs. The less time you have to spend firing up an FTP client in order to edit files, the better. This collection of all-new plugins will save you loads of time when managing content within your WordPress dashboard. Get more done in less time by adding a few of these to your sites.

In Context Admin Notes

In Context Admin Notes allows administrators to leave themselves and other admins notes inside of posts and pages. Its primary purpose is for content that is modified on an ongoing basis, or for content in various states of revision by multiple parties. Shortcodes enable comments that are hidden from normal viewers.

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Sexy Add Template

Sexy Add Template allows you to easily add extra page templates, CSS or any other file you may desire into your current theme. It is much more convenient than uploading files via ftp or your site host’s web panel.

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Allow PHP in Posts and Pages

Allow PHP in Posts andPpages adds the functionality to include PHP in WordPress posts and pages by adding a simple shortcode [php].code.[/php] This plugin strips away the automatically generated wordpress < p > and < br/ > tags but still allows the addition of your own < p > and < br/ > tags.
It can be really useful if you want to add content that is visible only to a certain user ID or range of users.

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Allow Word/Powerpoint File Uploads

This plugin allows you to upload Word, Powerpoint and Excel files (doc, docx, ppt, pptx, xls and xlsx) through the media library uploader. This saves you the time of zipping them up to make them a more acceptable file type. If you’re in the habit of including these types of files, this is a must-have plugin.

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Simple JavaScript Management

This plugin allows you to manage all of your JavaScript files through the WordPress administration interface, which can be a real time saver if you’re working with a lot of JavaScript files. You can even change the order that the JavaScript files are loaded. It’s a much easier way to manage your scripts.

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Articalise

If you are writing something that spans multiple posts (e.g. Guide, FAQ, Product Review), and you want to group these posts together, check out Articalise. It allows you to group posts together, and you can still use your usual categories and tags. The article name is prefixed to the post title and a small ‘mini menu’ is added at the end of the post.

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Hide Custom Fields

Clean up your post edit screen with this handy plugin. It hides custom fields from post and pages so as not to clutter up the page when most users don’t need custom fields. Install this plugin if you’re sure that you don’t need any custom fields.

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Admin-Link-Box

This plugin puts a hidden wp-admin/login link in the top-left corner of your site, visible on mouseover. This simple plugin is useful if you want to have an easy to find admin link that is not visible on the page so that you can instantly access your dashboard. It’s very easy to modify its position, colors, and more.

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WP HTML MarkItUp

Markitup is a universal markup jQuery editor, whichs hooks on each textarea on your website or just to a specific textareas that you specify. It is a very lightweight, customizable and flexible engine made to meet the developer’s needs in their CMS’s, blogs, forums or websites. MarkItUp is not a WYSIWYG editor.

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Outbound Link Manager

The Outbound Link Manager monitors outbound links in your posts, easily allowing you to add or remove a nofollow tag, update anchor texts, or remove links altogether. It enables SEO managers to monitor external links directly through the WordPress dashboard. Quickly edit links to add styles, targets or change the anchor text.

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