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 [...]
You now have the ability to create multiple connections of the same type from the admin. This was the most requested feature and you should thank Patrik Bóna for providing the initial implementation. The API functions have also changed (and are now documented), so you might want to take another look at them. I’ve also [...]
This plugin came as a solution to the recently discovered problems with network activation on MultiSite installs. The plugin does two things at the moment: when doing a network de/activation, it triggers the de/activation hook on all sites in the network when creating a new site, it triggers the activation hook for all active network [...]
Fewer queries Instead of doing a separate query for each taxonomy, the plugin now does a single combined query, using a proposed API. Custom Post Type Support Custom post types go very well with custom taxonomies, so the Taxonomy Drill-Down widget now has a post type dropdown. Correct Template This version doesn’t mess with category [...]
When running WordPress MultiSite, you have a very handy feature called network activation. It allows you to activate a plugin for the entire network of sites. The trouble is that it only does half the job. Some plugins have an install procedure that is meant to be run only on activation. However, when you do [...]
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