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studioespresso/defaulttab
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Add a standard tab to your new sections

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Default Tab for Craft CMS 3.x
=============================

[](#default-tab-for-craft-cms-3x)

This plugin is no longer maintained since Craft handles this better since Craft 3.4.

---

When building sites with Craft CMS, you've probably done this a couple of times: you create a new section, you go to add fields and the first thing you have to do is add a new tab. Every time. This plugin aims to fix that 🎉.

[![Screenshot](screenshots/screenshot_1.png)](screenshots/screenshot_1.png)

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

[](#requirements)

This plugin requires Craft CMS 3.0.0-beta.29 or later.

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

[](#installation)

To install the plugin, follow these instructions.

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

    ```
     cd /path/to/project

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

    ```
     composer require studioespresso/defaulttab

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

Settings
--------

[](#settings)

- Tab title: set the title for your default tab
- Use title field: enable this give each new section a title field (only applies to Single sections)
- Select the field groups you want to add to your new sections by default. Fields in those groups will be added to the section.

###### Brought to you by [Studio Espresso](https://studioespresso.co)

[](#brought-to-you-by-studio-espresso)

###  Health Score

35

—

LowBetter than 80% of packages

Maintenance17

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity25

Limited adoption so far

Community15

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity69

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 95.9% 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 ~43 days

Recently: every ~67 days

Total

8

Last Release

2815d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d8c2fa7c41948f5681df5a1696d3cf9654b75fd6fd5904eeb818e3ed7c4b2628?d=identicon)[janhenckens](/maintainers/janhenckens)

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Top Contributors

[![janhenckens](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/755428?v=4)](https://github.com/janhenckens "janhenckens (47 commits)")[![angrybrad](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/61869?v=4)](https://github.com/angrybrad "angrybrad (1 commits)")[![edolyne](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3417857?v=4)](https://github.com/edolyne "edolyne (1 commits)")

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Tags

craft3craftcmscraftcms-pluginutilitycmsyii2craftcms

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