Always Stay: Keeping the Manager in Edit Mode After Save

A small manager plugin pattern that changes the default save behavior so editors stay on the current form instead of being bounced back to the list.

By default, classic manager save actions often returned editors to the listing view. That made sense for quick edits, but it was frustrating for longer work on resources, templates, snippets, chunks, and plugins.

The donor solution

A lightweight plugin listened to several form-render events and changed the default save-mode value to “stay”.

if ($e->name == 'OnDocFormRender' ||
    $e->name == 'OnTempFormRender' ||
    $e->name == 'OnChunkFormRender' ||
    $e->name == 'OnSnipFormRender' ||
    $e->name == 'OnPluginFormRender') {
    $html = "<script type='text/javascript'>if(!$('stay').value) $('stay').value=2;</script>";
    $e->output($html);
}

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