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peteheaney/craft-vertical-tabs
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Replace the Craft Control Panel's horizontal tabs with vertical tabs.

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```
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- As of Craft version 3.4, this plugin will no longer work. It is therefore deprecated. -
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```

Vertical Tabs plugin for Craft CMS 3.x
======================================

[](#vertical-tabs-plugin-for-craft-cms-3x)

Replace the Craft Control Panel's horizontal tabs with vertical tabs.

[![Vertical Tabs logo](resources/img/plugin-logo.png)](resources/img/plugin-logo.png)

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

This plugin requires Craft CMS 3.0.0-beta.23 or later.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

### From the Plugin Store

[](#from-the-plugin-store)

Go to the Plugin Store in the Craft Control Panel and search for “Vertical Tabs”. Click on it, then click the “Install” button.

### With Composer

[](#with-composer)

1. Open your terminal and go to your Craft project:

    ```
     cd /path/to/project

    ```
2. Then tell Composer to load the plugin:

    ```
     composer require peteheaney/craft-vertical-tabs

    ```
3. In the Control Panel, go to Settings → Plugins and click the “Install” button for Vertical Tabs.

---

Overview
--------

[](#overview)

This plugin allows you to replace Craft's default horizontal tabs with vertical tabs on Entry, Category and User edit pages in the control panel.

[![Preview](resources/img/preview.png)](resources/img/preview.png)

---

Configuration
-------------

[](#configuration)

Once the plugin is installed, it will be enabled for Entries, Categories and Users. If you'd like to disable it for certain Element types, go to Settings and, under Plugins, click on Vertical Tabs. You can then enable/disable Vertical Tabs as desired.

[![Settings](resources/img/settings.png)](resources/img/settings.png)

###  Health Score

27

—

LowBetter than 49% of packages

Maintenance16

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity16

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity57

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

2395d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dff881dda4bf263f6b02320dfb857d955a2af05098dc1ab68c09f4090ae2db5d?d=identicon)[peteheaney](/maintainers/peteheaney)

---

Top Contributors

[![peteheaney](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/234166?v=4)](https://github.com/peteheaney "peteheaney (6 commits)")

---

Tags

cmsCraftcraftcmscraft-pluginvertical tabs

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