One plugin that comes in real handy for a lot of the campaigns we work on is called WP-CMS Post Control. It’s not a power house plugin that changes a core functionality of WordPress, but one that makes working with WordPress defaults a little less annoying.
For us, the two most common settings we change are found right under the General Settings sub-heading; uploader type and post/page autosave. For many of you that work with WordPress day in & day out, you can imagine how handy this may be, but for others who don’t know, I’ll explain a little further.
The first one, Uploader type, will allow you to change from a flash uploader (for items such as images, pdf’s, etc) to the default browser uploader. Now, for many, this would actually be a step backwards, but in our case, where our server config is just specialized enough so that the flash uploader doesn’t work correctly, it’s a very nice feature. One that’s solved a lot of headaches for us & has simplified image uploading.
The second one, Post/Page autosave, is also a very handy feature. Often times, when working with multiple authors, editors and admins (esp. in WordPress MU systems), users will click on the wrong post, but stay on the edit page/post page long enough for the autosave to engage. This causes a red banner across the top of the page to alert the next user that they’re working in an auto-save version & often times results in a post/page version conflict, often times being escalated to a top level admin to resolve (meaning me).
Now, both of these cases come in handy for our situation, but isn’t necessarily for every one or every development shop.
