Jay Versluis I tested one of my plugins yesterday and was shocked to see a nasty error message: What was going on? I could have sworn this worked fine last time I tried! Then I remembered that I changed my PHP Version in MAMP, from 5.5.3 back to 5.2.17. And exactly therein lies the problem, because the … Read more
The admin footer bar is the one line of text displayed at the very bottom of your admin interface. By default it reads “Thank you for creating with WordPress” on the left, and shows the current WordPress version on the right. You can however change this if you like. Perhaps you want to provide additional … Read more
To get a reference to a specific admin page (such as Dashboard), we can use the admin_url(), network_admin_url() or get_admin_url() functions, like so: get_admin_url( ‘index.php’ ); You will need to pass the reference to the page you’d like to display. To find out how, simply click on the menu page in question, then look at … Read more
A bit related to my previous post about using jQuery UI elements in the WordPress admin interface, it’s likely that at some point you want to load your own CSS styles to your plugin or theme’s admin pages. Lucky for us that’s a lot easier that loading JavaScript! Here’s how – works without adding an … Read more
One thing I’ve been struggling with was to use jQuery UI elements in my plugins, for example jQuery UI Tabs. Even though the libraries are included with WordPress, I couldn’t get them to work. Thanks to Pippin’s Plugins I could figure it out – thanks, Pippin! My initial mistake was the way I created the … Read more
This is surprisingly easy thanks to a function called remove_menu_page(); To remove the Dashboard item for example, you can use the function like this: // remove Dashboard remove_menu_page(‘index.php’); The parameter is the filename of the item you’d like to hide. To find out what that is, simply hover over the menu options in the admin … Read more
You know I love P2. I always have, and I always will. It’s the perfect theme that turns my WordPress installation into a notebook site.
Many users – me included – have often wished for the addition of categories to P2, so that when you write a post, you can add it to the category from the front page, perhaps via a convenient drop down menu.
Here’s how to do it with P2 Version 1.5.1.
And if you don’t want to hack the code yourself, I’ve got a full working project on GitHub that’s ready to rock.
Sometimes I’d like to go straight to my front page after logging in. This is extremely useful with themes like P2 which allow you to post from the front page, but may also come in handy if you don’t want your users to be put off by the admin interface. There’s a very effective solution … Read more