Title: Show Content Only
Author: Zack Katz
Published: <strong>February 16, 2010</strong>
Last modified: September 17, 2014

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Search plugins

![](https://ps.w.org/show-content-only/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=992063)

This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

![](https://ps.w.org/show-content-only/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=991853)

# Show Content Only

 By [Zack Katz](https://profiles.wordpress.org/katzwebdesign/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/show-content-only.1.3.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/show-content-only/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/show-content-only/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/show-content-only/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/show-content-only/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/show-content-only/)

## Description

Enables you to show only a post or page’s content, without sidebars, footers, and
other content.

There are many different reasons for wanting to show just the content, but there’s
never been such an easy way to do it. This plugin adds a box in the post and page
editor that provides you with five links:

 * Content Only
 * Content Only + Styles
 * Content with Tags
 * Content with Categories
 * Content with Categories & Tags

This is very helpful in conjunction with the [Google Keyword Tool](https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal),
so that Google only analyses the content of your post or page, not the surrounding
context as well.

[Read more about the plugin](https://katz.co/content-only/).

> 
> #### You may also be interested in:
> 
>  * **[Rich Text Tags](https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rich-text-tags/)** –
>    Enable rich text editing of tags, categories, and taxonomies. Add value to 
>    your tag & category pages and improve your website’ SEO.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Edit Posts Page (pre version 1.3)

## Installation

 * Add and activate the plugin
 * In your Edit Post and Edit Page pages, you will see a new meta box titled “Show
   Content Only Links”. Use these links to link to content-only versions of your
   page.
 * Alternatively, you can simply add `?content-only=1` or `&content-only=1` to your
   page’s URL for it to be shown as content only.

## FAQ

  How do I use this plugin?

 * Add and activate the plugin
 * In your Edit Post and Edit Page pages, you will see a new meta box titled “Show
   Content Only Links”. Use these links to link to content-only versions of your
   page.
 * Alternatively, you can simply add `?content-only=1` or `&content-only=1` to your
   page’s URL for it to be shown as content only.

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6a90da5f0e4a7b2f9b9853c507f78d664ee27f0e5be09ce02f78cc1a58d76aba?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Great work, perfect!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-work-perfect/)󠁿

 [Hartmut](https://profiles.wordpress.org/baboha/) September 3, 2016

Very usefull if you have to put the postdata into a modal. I used it when i print
the links in the Datatable. To run that job i used Show Content Only plugin together
with plugin JsDataTable and plugin Easy Fancybox.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/72b6799ad04879211c873dcb74fdff6df84d5b34e7c92c1c6bac5989944333cf?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Perfect ! Saves me from having to make a bare-bones template](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/perfect-saves-me-from-having-to-make-a-bare-bones-template/)󠁿

 [aaaahosting](https://profiles.wordpress.org/aaaahosting/) September 3, 2016

I sometimes use pop-up forms that don’t require anything but the form code. They
load much quicker (much – much quicker) with eveything else stripped but the form.
Thank you so much for this handy time saver !

 [ Read all 4 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/show-content-only/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Show Content Only” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Zack Katz ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/katzwebdesign/)
 *   [ Zack Katz ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/katzwebservices/)
 *   [ Kyle Maurer ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/brashrebel/)

[Translate “Show Content Only” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/show-content-only)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/show-content-only/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/show-content-only/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/show-content-only/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/show-content-only/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.3.1

 * Updated translation files

#### 1.3

 * Added links meta box to all public, registered post types
 * Formatted the links in nice little buttons
 * Refactored lots of code for clarity, standards compliance and greater flexibility

#### 1.2

 * Added option to print styles by adding `css=1` to the URL
    - When printing styles, `post_class()` classes are added to `<body>`
 * Added option to print scripts by adding `js=1` to the URL
 * Applied `the_content` filter to content by default. Manually add `plain=1` to
   the URL to not have `the_content` applied.

#### 1.1.1

 * Added internationalization support with `load_plugin_textdomain`
 * Improved ReadMe.txt

#### 1.1

 * Modified so that if the post hasn’t been published or saved as a draft, links
   are not available.

#### 1.0

 * Initial Release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.3.1**
 *  Last updated **12 years ago**
 *  Active installations **200+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.5 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.0.38**
 * Tags
 * [content](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/content/)[formatting](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/formatting/)
   [text](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/text/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/show-content-only/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  4 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/show-content-only/reviews/?filter=5)
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[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/show-content-only/reviews/#new-post)

[See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/show-content-only/reviews/)

## Contributors

 *   [ Zack Katz ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/katzwebdesign/)
 *   [ Zack Katz ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/katzwebservices/)
 *   [ Kyle Maurer ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/brashrebel/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/show-content-only/)

## Donate

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