This tip is for a very select group of readers – WordPress bloggers using Steve Smith’s Tiger Admin beautification plugin. While the plugin is great in terms of admin panel aesthetics, it detracts from usability a bit with its large footer. For times when I’m not connected to my huge LCD, it would be nice to have that extra inch of screen real estate. Easily enough it can all be done with one little addition to the CSS.
Login to your server and head over to the wp-content/plugins/wp-admin-tiger/wp-admin-tiger_files/ directory. Open up tiger.css in your favorite text editor and search for #footer. For me, this is line 146. Add the following property to that CSS selector and save the file: display:none;. Clear your browser’s cache and load up your WordPress admin panel. You should now have a great deal of extra space where the footer was.
This idea came up just tonight when trying to filter through a long page of spam in Akismet and on the MacBook, the footer was taking up a large chunk of the screen. After just a quick venture into the CSS and a wild guess that the footer would be under the #footer selector, we were in business.
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Great tip. It’ll come in handy now that I’m stuck on 1024×768.
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Awesome! That footer was annoying. Thanks for taking the time to figure this out.
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You rebel! :P
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It’s funny because I was looking in my WP admin (with tiger) the other day and was thinking the exact same thing. I did some other switching around too because it seems that the post input is too narrow. I guess I never use that to post anyway but it is always nice to have it ready.
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Thanks Paul, this works great.
I started removing the header as well, but once I started mucking around in the WordPress PHP files for the Admin panel, I started worrying about breaking things, so I stopped.
Sadly, it wasn’t as simple as adding a “display: none;” to a CSS rule.
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I’ve used the wp tiger admin plugin on and off for a while now, but I ended up switching back to the good old regular style. One of the main reasons I did so was because it didn’t integrate very well with the admin drop down menu:
http://frenchfragfactory.net/ozh/my-projects/wordpress-admin-menu-drop-down-css/
and the plugin page had really bright blue colours for the activated plugins which I really didn’t like. Maybe it’s just me?
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Good tip Paul. FYI, the new version I’m working on right now has a much smaller footer, so hopefully that will please most of you guys. I thought about simply removing it like you have shown here, but I figured some people might want the info, etc. But as you can see, it’s not a difficult thing to take it off.
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Yeah, that thing is pretty big. Someone should have thought of that sooner.
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Very cool…thanks for this.
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Great tip Paul, I have been using Tiger Admin for a while (good work on that one Steve) primarily as I find it easier to use on my laptop screen, and now I have gained even more space thanks to that gem!
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How about trying something new and exhilarating : SpotMilk could really do it better than the Tiger Admin one.
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thanks for that… it’s actually a much more noticeable difference afterwards than i expected.
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