Want the quick jist about what Sidekick is, well let me tell ya:
Sidekick is your lightsaber when battling administrative tasks in WordPress. It enhances the admin interface, making certain tasks simply less painful. Sidekick includes the following enhancements:
Post, Pages and Custom Post Types
- Expand/Collapse child pages (with child page counts)
- Starring your most edited pages
- Last modified column (with sort) to quickly find your last edited pages
- Optional ID column to quickly see post/page IDs
- Quick find targeting search (when your looking for that FAQ page in a list of a 100 pages)
Nav Menus
- Expand/Collapse menu items (with child counts)
Other
- Site Visibility warning message (helps you to not forget to enable search engine visibility on your live sites)
- i18n language support
- Clean uninstall
Lifetime Updates
This plugin has it own update system and you will receive lifetime automatic updates.
How Can I Get It
Get it instantly by pledging your support today!
Reactions
What some are saying about Sidekick…
Changelog
0.6.1
- minor bug fix, custom post type posts were hidden in some cases (in the admin UI)
0.6
- added expand/collapse functionality to nav menus section
0.5
- added expand/collapse all icon links
- added site visibility notice with ignore button (helps you to not forget to enable search engine visibility on your live sites)
0.4.3
- added french translation (by Gregoire Noyelle)
0.4.2
- fixed error, added array check
0.4.1
- fixed starring and show/hide ajax update issue
0.4
- added support for custom post types
- added starring, quick find, id/modified columns to post types
- quick find searches title, id, and author (fuzzy search)
- added id column
- id column is hidden by default (prevents clutter)
- added i18n support en_US
- added es_ES language support
- fixed starred item count would not reduce when item was trashed
- fixed after trashed item, undo would not return starred item
- fixed star display issue with really long titles
0.3
- using views/filter hook
- other minor improvements
0.2
- admin menu no longer is auto fixed
- WordPress 3.2 adjustments
0.1
- Birthday
Great plugin, Dimas. Everything went well from checkout to install. My clients are going to be very pleased! Thanks for all your hard work in the WordPress world.
Hi Dimas, you plugin looks great. Thank so much. I hope it will work with Simple Page Ordering I use a lot.
@Grégoire, I just did a test with the ordering plugin and it appears to work very nicely, in fact it is actually a little easier to drag things around when you are able to collapse the parents children.
Thanks a lot Dimas. I will install it tomorrow. If it is multi language ready I will send you the .pot french version. In my action I plane to start wpalchemy. We talk a lot about your great work during the last WordCamp in Paris.
I have a few updates coming next week to the Sidekick Plugin (I will make it multi-language ready), all those who already have it installed it will be the same update process you are familiar with in WordPress.
I am really just glad that people have found WPAlchemy useful.
Ok Dimas, as soon as I see the new update I will start the translation.
Yes WPAlchemy is very useful. Next action during the summer!
DImas, I just test it this morning. Works great with Simple Page Ordering Plugin. Do you plane to add this functionnality. Last thing, It doesn’t work now with custom post type (type Page). Will you add this?
@Grégoire, I will add support for custom post type (type Page) in the next release, just basically making sure it works well in any mode.
Also check out What Bugs You About WordPress, Where is Your Pain?, I am curious to know some of the annoyances that developers have with WordPress, that perhaps Sidekick can address.
Great. I will (“make sur it works well” and “where is your pain”). For how many website can I use your plugin? Is there a limit?
I will formalize the license structure in the coming days. Everyone who is currently pledging their support is getting a “Developer License” (highest available), meaning that you can use/install the plugin on any site that you are doing development work on.
Those who already have the plugin, a 0.4 release should be coming your way (via the WordPress update system). See the changelog above for the latest additions, fixes and enhancements.
Hi Dimas,
I get some strange behavior with Simple Page Ordering Plugin in Custom Post Type. If you have more child page (+20), you can’t see the ajax effect of Simple Page Ordering Plugin when you drag some page. No problem for normal page. And If I desactivate Sidekick, drag and drop works fine. If you want to have a look, I create an account on the website test for you. I will send you with Google +. Let me now.
It will really great, if you can add Drag and drop in your plugin.
Thanks
Great plugin, will be purchasing soon. I’d love to see “slugs” added to the search ability. Sometimes you know the start of the slug, but your not sure the ending.
@Grégoire, I will definitely take a look, a test account would be great and much easier then trying to reproduce on my own.
@Christian, I like the idea, ill give it try thx!
@Dimas. Thanks a lot. I will send you the login by Google+
Hi Dimas, this may be a stupid question, but does sidekick work on post/custom post admin screens as well as pages? Obviously the collapsible pages wouldn’t work, but would be handy to have the sorting/starring of posts.
@Andrew, Yes, Sidekick works with posts, pages and custom post types.
Thank you Dimas this is great! I have one feature request, is it possible to have a link to “collapse all”? thanks again!
@Michelle, I’ve added expand/collapse all icons, in addition to another useful feature for you “fast and furious” developers.
There is now a Site Visibility notice, intended to help developers (myself included) to not forget to enable search engine visibility on live websites. E.g. On your staging sites you can dismiss this notice (per hostname), and you shouldn’t see it on your live site if you have your site set to public.
@Dimas. I think, it will be really great if you add drag and drop feature
. In any case, thanks again
Hi Dimas,
I think I found a bug — where can I send a report? Cheers, S
Please send any bug reports to dbegunoff at gmail dot com
how can i get an update? my version doesnt have automatic updates, i bought it in august of 2011.
version 0.4.3
thanks
Chris, I have sent you the latest version of of the plugin via your paypal email address.
Hi Dimas, I’m in the same boat as Chris, my version is 0.4.3 and I’m not getting updated. Email addy in this comment is my PayPal address. Thanks so much! Michelle