FV Clone Screen Options

Description

Simple plugin which lets you manage Screen Options of all the users on your blog.

First set your own Screen Options and then clone them across all users with our plugin.

A huge time saver. Enjoy!

Note: Multisite is not supported very well, plugin doesn’t distinguish between individual blogs.

Free support available on our forums

Testing

1. Go to classic editor

1.2. Change visibility of some metaboxes

1.3. Go to Tools -> FV Clone Screen Options

1.4. Click on “Clone”

1.5. Go to another user and check if the metaboxes are hidden

1.6. Create new user

1.7. Check if the metaboxes are hidden

Screenshots

Installation

You can use the built in installer and upgrader, or you can install the plugin
manually.

FAQ

What screens are being cloned?

For all the post types (including ‘link’, ‘dashboard’ and custom post types):

• Metabox visibility, position and open/closed state.
• Number of columns on editing screen.
• Number of items per page.
• Columns in the list of the items.

Also:

• WP admin panel menu open/closed state.
• Dashboard items.

What user meta values are being cloned?

Here’s a list of the basic and legacy items:

• wp_user-settings
• managelink-managercolumnshidden
• manageuploadcolumnshidden
• edit_per_page
• manageeditcolumnshidden
• wp_usersettings
• edit_pages_per_page
• manageeditpagescolumnshidden
• wp_metaboxorder_post
• wp_metaboxorder_page
• wp_metaboxorder_dashboard

Also all of this for all the posts types (post, page, attachment, revision) plus ‘link’, ‘dashboard’ and all the custom post types:

• metaboxhidden_TYPE
• closedpostboxes_TYPE
• screen_layout_TYPE
• meta-box-order_TYPE
• edit_TYPE_per_page
• manageedit-TYPEcolumnshidden

Reviews

Excellent Solution

pacfire February 2, 2022

This plugin has solved one of my long standing issues with a Multisite build. It’s small and functional and we love it. During the process we needed to contact the developers – which you can do googling the plugin and going to the developers home site (sorry I can’t post the direct link). The fix was agile and simple – something I could do myself and this is not the perfect plugin for us. I highly recommend both this plugin and the developers.

Did not work

blopster September 7, 2020

The clone tool did not show all users and did not clone to all users. This was not what I expected and did not serve my purpose, at all.

Worked Great

VentureCore March 11, 2020

Thanks for adding this to WP community! Can it be deactivated after you’ve run the script?

thank

radik19 August 21, 2019

Plugin works

Works great

Tex April 18, 2017

Thanks!

Simple and powerful

oribengal April 3, 2017

Bought a plugin that works great… but only if you turn on a certain setting in the Screen Options. I needed it to work for every user, and this FV Clone Screen Options saved the day… quickly.

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

Version 0.4 – 2019/06/12

• Fix for WordPress 5.2.1 user registrations

Version 0.3 – 2018/05/14

• Performance fix – properly detecting editor user roles rather than just skipping all subscribers

Version 0.2.5 – 2017/07/03

• Hotfix for Multisite – plugin was adding unnecessary usermeta for all new users, regardless of user role.

Version 0.2.4 – 2016/05/16

• Fix for sites with thousands of users

Version 0.2.3 – 2016/03/01

• Fix for PHP warnings caused by new WordPress version.

Version 0.2.2 – 2010/07/11

• Added support of WP 3.0 post types
• Added support for link and media manager
• Added sepparate button for just saving the settings for new users

Version 0.2.1 – 2010/06/17

• Added support for list of posts and pages (Post -> Edit and Pages -> Edit)

Version 0.2 – 2010/02/26

• Custom Screen Options configuration interface was removed.
• All the standard WordPress Screen Options configuration panels are used, so plugin is easier to use.
• Works with post, page and dashboard screens.

Version 0.1 – 2010/02/10

• Plugin has its own interface for configuring Screen Options.
• Support only for post screen.