Fixing Restrict Content Pro’s wp-admin column widths

Pippin always does a great job using WordPress core functionality and styling — and his Restrict Content Pro (RCP) plugin is no exception — but one of the issues with the wp-admin tables (e.g. for displaying members) is the fixed column widths and word-wrapping.

Example

Here’s an example comparison.

These 2 screenshots are from the same browser window width. I did not resize the browser window. They’re from a 27″ iMac with a decently-wide browser window (not full screen, not small width). The only difference is the code below being implemented.

Before / Default Display:

1,156 pixels wide and narrower — Ouch!

This is what we want to fix!

1,294 pixels and wider — No problem.

No problems at this wide width.

After / Better Display:

950 pixels wide — Fixed!

Ah, much better! Even works on much narrower screens.

1,294 pixels wide — Still looks good.

Code

Add this code to your active child theme’s functions.php or your own functionality plugin to fix all the wp-admin tables for Restrict Content Pro (RCP). It even keeps the forced 175px width on the Subscription Levels’ “Description” column.

If you want to review the other RCP columns that have custom fixed widths (so you can add additional CSS :not() selectors to Line 17 of the code above to meet your preferences), check out RCP /includes/css/admin-styles.css#L31 (line number link is subject to change with plugin updates).

Related: WordPress trac: Set width to auto for list table headers