OK - this isn’t mission critical - but it is really irritating …

A ‘feature’ of the new Admin interface is the setting of the maximum width of the display area - to 980px.

So if you’re working with a fine resolution on your laptop or PC, you have wasted screen real estate on the right hand side, and a small editing area when adding content to your posts and pages:

Now when I first started playing with WP2.5, I dived into the CSS in the wp-admin section, and manually modified the CSS file. This isn’t a great solution, as each time there is a minor upgrade to WordPress, this change will be overwritten.

Fortunately for those that either don’t want to mess with code, or want a lasting solution, there is a simple plugin that corrects the max width setting : Remove Max Width . This makes working in the post area that much easier :

Right - now that the WordPress Admin interface is starting to look and behave in the way that I like, we can get back to upgrading the plugins that extend WordPress’s features - from an end user / visitor perspective.