Users with the ability to perform administrative tasks for a site or a network of sites.
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Best Collection of Code for your functions.php file [closed]
Please vote on the question and any answers you find useful by clicking on the UP arrow on the left hand side of the question or answer.
As with many others who are now viewing this post, I have been ...
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Organizing Code in your WordPress Theme's functions.php File?
The more customization I make to WordPress the more I start thinking about if I should be organizing this file or splitting it up.
More specifically, if I have a bunch of custom functions which only ...
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Creating a table in the admin-style?
What is the recommended way of creating a page with a table, in the style of the tables showing posts or users in the admin area?
I am expanding the Cache Images plugin, and it contains a table with ...
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Changing the Order of Admin Menu Sections?
I am getting a bit frustrated over here after having spent a few hours trying to accomplish this fairly simple task without any luck.
Essentially I have 5 custom post types which I created and all I ...
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Add a Separator to the Admin Menu?
Does anyone know how to add an admin menu separator? I found this but it did not help.
http://lab.yukei.net/wp-code/nav.html?wp-admin/menu.php.source.html
Any ideas?
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how to filter post listing (in WP dashboard posts listing) using a custom field (search functionnality)?
despite the fact I googled a lot, I've not found the answer to a very simple question :
I have some posts with a custom field (ie supplier_name). I would like to be able to search and filter my posts ...
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Loading External Scripts in Admin but ONLY for a Specific Post Type?
So I continue to run into this issue and I just looking for the best and simplest solution to solve this problem.
I have come to make use of custom post types in many different projects and have ...
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Adding an Arbitrary Link to the Admin Menu?
Is there a way to add a arbitrary hyperlink to the WordPress admin menu (I mean the menu on the left when you log into the admin dashboard)? For example, can one add a link to Google?
In my ...
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Customize Edit Post screen for Custom Post Types?
What's the best way to completely customize the Edit Post admin screen for a specific custom post type?
I have customized it to an extent already on creation of the custom post type - adding ...
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What are the standard admin CSS id/class tags?
Is there a list of WordPress CSS id/classes that i can use to build plugin option screens that look and feel more like a normal WordPress option page? i have found some through serendipity but it ...
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Setting admin edit panels & metaboxes positions and visibility for ALL users and admins
My WP 3.3 setup involves several post types and customized edit panels with Advanced Custom Fields plugin (which creates many metaboxes) and other plugins such as SEO metabox panel, Scribu's ...
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4answers
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Is it possible to create a Wordpress tour? V3.3.1
I've recently upgraded to version 3.3.1 and noticed a nice feature that would be great for our non-Wordpress savvy clients - creating a tour of how to use Wordpress.
I've used the Yoast SEO plugin ...
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1answer
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wp_verify_nonce vs check_admin_referer
What is the difference, which one should I use?
I know that wp_verify_nonce checks the time limit, and check_admin_referer I think calls wp_verify_nonce as well as checking for an admin url segment, ...
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Find out which moderator approved comment?
Is there any way to find out what moderators have approved a comment, and then display that information on the front-end?
e.g.
John says: "This is a great article"
- Approved by Admin1
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Showing User's Post Counts by Custom Post Type in the Admin's User List?
I'm trying to figure out how to hook into the /wp-admin/users.php manage page to
create custom columns for showing the number of posts users have for the custom post types on WPHonors.com.
I created ...
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Disable dragging of meta boxes?
Anyone know how to disable this functionality so the meta boxes can't be repositioned?
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1answer
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Remove the “View” Link in Post Admin
I have a custom post type that I'm just using just to keep data in but I sometimes share it with others, and I don't want any confusion when the "view" link appears in the admin column.
Is there a ...
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1answer
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How do I optimize a custom post type admin page with 25,000 posts?
I'm getting the occasional excessive resource limit error to due to loading so many posts at once. We had set the PHP limit to 128 but just loading the list of posts for a couple of the post types is ...
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What are the best practices for updating?
Don't want to do anything to take down my blog. Here are some upgrade-related questions:
How often should Wordpress be updated?
What is the best way to do it?
How to know if there is a problem with ...
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2answers
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Securing Admin Accounts - Username Discovery
We've had Limit Login Attempts installed for some weeks now, and the number of brute force attempts occurring on wp-admin/wp-login is pretty amazing. At first the attempts were all with the username ...
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2answers
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Any guides on creating custom admin pages?
I basically want to create a table (preferably AJAXified) that lets the user enter a line of information, and be able to add new lines of information, and delete selected ones.
I've found this post ...
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2answers
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Sort admin menu items
On a related note to "Changing the Order of Admin Menu Sections?", I'm looking for a way to alphabetically sort the entries in each sub-section of WordPress's admin area.
Currently, whenever a new ...
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2answers
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What is the best way to customise admin files so they survive future upgrades?
I have a site with some custom post types, one of which doesn't have a title.
When viewed in the admin section, the posts are listed like so
Which is less than ideal, for obvious reasons.
I have ...
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Set Default Listing “View” in Admin
I'm looking for a way to set the default "View" options under post types in the admin area. For example, by default Posts will default to a "list" view instead of "excerpt" - I'd like to change this ...
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Change admin bar to default:off
While I quite like the admin bar I actually want it to be OFF by default instead of ON ( I don't want to disable it altogether because I want users to be able to turn it on if they want - but but I ...
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How to use more than 256MB of memory in the admin?
I'm building a site for a photographer who uploads pictures that are normally large for todays digital cameras. Images are quite memory intensive, especially the image operations like creating ...
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5answers
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Add separator to admin submenu
I would like to add a separator to the admin submenu section, NOT in the top level section.
I'm thinking of using javascript and styling to do the job, but I was wondering if there's a more ...
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3answers
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How to hide admin account in BuddyPress? (for security reasons)
I have been working with WordPress for the past 3-4 years, but I am new to BuddyPress.
I would like to hide the admin account completely from BuddyPress for security reasons. For example with a ...
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1answer
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Modify Admin Bar Link
Starting on line 474 of /wp-includes/admin-bar.php there is a function that is declared as the following:
function wp_admin_bar_new_content_menu( $wp_admin_bar )
What it does it generates the + New ...
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2answers
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Prevent widgets removal
I'm building a site with a lot of widgets. They have been highly customized.
Several admins/editors will have to edit these widgets when the site is live.
Right now I'm scared to see a widget (and ...
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1answer
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Add a new post status in the post progression
I run a site with about 30 authors and 3 editors. Authors submit posts for review, and editors schedule or publish them. It would be useful to have another post status of "Editing" between Pending ...
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2answers
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Can a users profile be put under the dashboard menu
I was reading an article today and it covered some very valid points on user experience with WordPress. One of its points was that the profile should go under the Dashboard menu. I like this idea but ...
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Prevent Wordpress from abbreviating-long-slugs…-in-the-admin
On post edit pages, when a slug exceeds a certain number of characters, Wordpress abridges it with an ellipsis (...). For example, if my slug is i-want-to-be-able-to-see-this-slug, it appears on the ...
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1answer
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What's the easiest way to close comments on media/attachments?
I consistently get spam attempts on various and sundry media attachments on my primary WP blog. By default, media has open comments (for instance, ...
5
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1answer
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Weird behaviour when adding terms/term_taxonomies programmatically
This certainly looks like a bug to me.
I put together the following code for you to test it on a fresh install.
Basically, the code will add two sub categories under the "uncategorized" to achieve ...
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1answer
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How-to make the admin area mobile friendly
Currently the admin-UI is a no-go for mobile browsers. Therefore I'm searching for a plugin that makes the back-end/admin-UI accessible and a little more friendly for mobile devices.
Features, the ...
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3answers
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How to make a theme with more than one CSS file?
I've made my first theme and now I want to create different "profiles". These profiles are just independent CSS files that user can try. The point is, how to make these files to allow users to choose ...
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4answers
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WordPress admin screen very slow / timing out when editing or adding a new page/custom post
I'm new to the site but appreciate any help you can give.
I have a WordPress set-up which (rightly or wrongly) has hundreds of pages and thousands of another custom post type which is also based on a ...
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Plugin or mod for wordpress to make content publication SUPER easy
Well, im making a wordpress web page for my dad, a psychiatrist, who barely knows how to check his email. He wants to put content regulary but the actual admin interface of wordpress is way to complex ...
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1answer
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Load a script just to custom post type in admin
I have created a custom post type "portfolio" with something like this :
$args = array(
'labels' => $labels,
'public' => true,
'publicly_queryable' => true,
'show_ui' => ...
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Adding Custom Field to Taxonomy Input :Panel
I am looking to achieve something which I figured would be fairly simple to accomplish but it seems there are no real examples available to achieve my needs.
Essentially I have a custom post type of ...
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4answers
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Including CSS and JS on Admin Screen of Custom Theme Options
I am creating a custom theme with a theme options page.
I would like to style the options page and do not want to include inline styles. Is there any way to include an external stylesheet from say
...
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5answers
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How can I make an Ajax login form work with FORCE_SSL_ADMIN enabled?
I'm working on a site that requires an https secured admin area and a secure front-end area as well where private information will be shown. My preference for user login is an Ajax-enabled widget that ...
4
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1answer
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front end logo upload like happytables
happytables has a cool feature where if you are logged in, on the home page && haven't uploaded a logo yet it will insert a drag + drop image box similar to image uploader on the backend.
...
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1answer
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How to determine whether we are in add New page/post/CPT or in edit page/post/CPT in wordpress admin?
This seems like simple thing but I need way to determine whether the current screen is for Add New or Edit ( a sort of wordpress admin conditional tag). Is there a built in function for this already, ...
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3.3: How do you hide the new dashboard welcome panel?
I have tried various versions of this here:
unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['high']['dashboard_wp_welcome_panel']);
...
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2answers
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Allow admin login at /admin
I am interested in:
how can we change the default login url /wp-admin to /login
how can we add another url for login so that both /wp-admin and /login would work
I tried to use a custom filter and ...
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1answer
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Thickbox hacking - removing fields
Default (big and ugly) Thickbox
I don't like how this Thickbox's page looks at all, I almost never use all these settings fields so decided to get rid off them, at least on pages where I'm uploading ...
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1answer
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Search posts by ID in admin
I'm looking for a way to search through posts by ID, preferably with support for custom post types. I was hoping there'd be a plugin enabling this functionality, but I've failed to find anything. Any ...
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3answers
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Editor Styles and Typekit
My website uses typekit to grab custom fonts, which works on the frontend.
I'd like to put this in my editor styles in the backend. However, I don't know how I would do this. Typekit uses a js embed ...
