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richhayler/stretch
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Hide the control panel’s right pane navigation to free up more screen real estate.

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Stretch plugin for Craft CMS 4.5
================================

[](#stretch-plugin-for-craft-cms-45)

Let your content stretch out and breathe. Toggle the control panel’s right details pane on entry edit pages to free up more screen real estate for editing your content. Handy when editing content on smaller screen devices e.g. iPad.

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

[](#requirements)

This plugin requires Craft CMS 4.5.13 or later.

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

[](#installation)

### Composer

[](#composer)

To install the plugin, follow these steps:

1. Install with Composer via: `composer require richhayler/stretch`
2. In the Control Panel, go to Settings → Plugins and click the “Install” button for Stretch.

### Craft Plugin Store

[](#craft-plugin-store)

You can also install Stretch via the **Plugin Store** in the Craft control panel.

Using Stretch
-------------

[](#using-stretch)

Once installed, a persistent menu will appear at the top of the control panel on entry edit sections. When you need more desktop space on the admin screens click the menu icon to hide the right details pane.

Issues
------

[](#issues)

Please report any issues you find to the [Stretch](https://github.com/richhayler/stretch/issues) page.

Stretch Roadmap
---------------

[](#stretch-roadmap)

Some things to do & ideas for potential features:

- *TBD* we're open to suggestions.

Brought to you by [Rich Hayler](https://richhayler.com/)

###  Health Score

28

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LowBetter than 52% of packages

Maintenance10

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity18

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity62

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 98.4% 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

Every ~557 days

Total

4

Last Release

910d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2505643?v=4)[Rich Hayler](/maintainers/richhayler)[@richhayler](https://github.com/richhayler)

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Top Contributors

[![richhayler](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2505643?v=4)](https://github.com/richhayler "richhayler (61 commits)")[![brandonkelly](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/47792?v=4)](https://github.com/brandonkelly "brandonkelly (1 commits)")

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Tags

cmsCraftcraftcmscraft-pluginnavigationcontrol panelcollapse control panel navigation

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