While reorganizing some categories on a site, I looked for a plugin that would let me manipulate the hierarchy more easily, but I couldn’t find any. So I wrote my own. I was in a hurry, so it’s pretty basic: Then I remembered that I have another, very related plugin: Merge Tags. So I decided [...]
The Press This bookmarklet is neat, but it would be a lot neater if it used the regular post editing screen interface. It turns out, this was quite easy to do from a plugin. So, this is version 1.0, a proof of concept, if you will. See the overview for more info.
This summer I’ve been busy with my GSoC project, which involved making columns sortable on list-type screens in the WordPress administration area. Yesterday, that work was included in trunk.
That’s all very nice, you say, but how do I make sortable columns of my own?
The latest version of the plugin brings a new ‘dropdowns’mode to the Taxonomy Drill Down widget. I’ve also added a few filters so you can further customize the appearance, without modifying plugin files. They can be found in query-multiple-taxonomies/widget.php. Also, a single widget handles multiple taxonomies now. Hovering over a taxonomy will show you the [...]
As promised, this plugin is now a utility to convert custom fields into terms in a taxonomy. If you go to WP-Admin -> Tools, you’ll see this at the bottom:
There was an interesting discussion on wp-hackers about how best to store many-to-many relationships between posts. The conclusion was that custom fields are probably the worst solution. While creating a custom table is the most straightforward way to do it, using a custom taxonomy has the most benefits. The most important one is that, when [...]
By default, a user with the ‘author’role can edit any comment made on any of his own posts. This is alright when you only have a handful of trusted authors. In most cases though, you will want to allow authors to only edit their own comments. Here is a little snippet that achieves that (requires [...]