On just about every WordPress admin page, you can customize which editing area, widgets, and features are visible on the page. For example, on the post page, I never look at the Revisions, Send Trackbacks, or Author. So I don’t want them cluttering up my page. I don’t technically know if it makes the pages load faster, but I would think so. The one I use most is the Dashboard Screen Options for widgets such as stats (from Google Analyticator and wordpress.com stats), my To Do list widget, and recent comments.
Post Screen Options
Get rid of all of that clutter on your post page–where you are so often, right? You rarely need Author, you only need Custom Fields if you’re tricking out your theme, and Send Trackbacks is so 2000’s.
Posts Screen Options
Keep those columns in order and show only what you want to see. The best feature here is the number of posts to show on a screen. You used to have to dig deep and hard to tweak that number in previous versions of WordPress.
Dashboard Screen Options
Here’s the fun stuff. Got some wacky widgets? Want to show your contact form entries? Stats from Google Analytics? And get rid of things you’re not reading.
Comments Screen Options
