Dashboard controls have all stopped working
Start de-activating all your plugins, one by one. Mostly likely there is a conflict produced by a update of a plugin or theme
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How can I create multiple different admin roles with their own capabilities
Yes it’s very easy. You’ll want to use the add_role() function to add your custom roles – https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_role Then you can use add_cap to add custom capabilities – https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_cap One important thing to mention is that both add_role and add_cap are saved to the database so they only need to run 1x so it’s good … Read more
Filter on the day of the week from timestamp
This answer may help someone who really wants to customize their filters. With PhpStorm and breakpoints I could walk through how the meta_query is constructed before posts are fetched. There are no hook points in the flow that let developers accomplish this; I’ve used a SQL-injection trick to achieve the filter. // Do advanced SQL … Read more
Add_Meta_box to custom page (formidable edit post)
Like this? <?php /* Plugin Name: Your plugin name Plugin URI: http://www.domain.com Description: Description Author: You obviously Version: 1.0 */ /** * Adds a meta box to the post editing screen */ include(‘meta_box/meta_box.php’); ?> meta_box.php <?php $post_id = $_GET[‘post’] ? $_GET[‘post’] : $_POST[‘post_ID’] ; $page_temp = get_page_template_slug( $post_id ); if ($page_temp == ‘template_name.php’) { function … Read more
How to customize WordPress dashboard for different users?
I would suggest this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/adminimize/ What does this plugin do? The plugin changes the administration backend and gives you the power to assign rights on certain parts. Admins can activate/deactivate every part of the menu and even parts of the sub-menu. Meta fields can be administered separately for posts and pages. Certain parts of … Read more
Can’t access dashboard after 4.8.1 automatic upgrade
As mentioned in the comments, the first place to look is the error log. That will usually point you to an error in a plugin. You can disable an individual plugin by renaming it’s folder. You can quickly disable all plugins by renaming the plugins folder. If you rename the entire plugin folder, then create … Read more
When admin approves a registered user, I don’t want to send a notification email to users
This should overwrite the plugable function that sends the email. if ( !function_exists(‘wp_new_user_notification’) ) { function wp_new_user_notification( $user_id, $plaintext_pass=”” ){} }
Get Link of Page Selected through a Select Field in Custom Admin Page
First, you register your setting like this: function my_awesome_register_fields_for_additional_settings(){ register_setting(‘reading’, ‘my_awesome_pagelink_for_frontend_button’); add_settings_field(‘my_awesome_pagelink_for_frontend_button’, ‘<label for=”my_awesome_pagelink_for_frontend_button”>The Frontend Button shall link to this page:</label>’ , ‘my_awesome_pagelink_for_frontend_button_html’, ‘reading’); } add_filter(‘admin_init’, ‘my_awesome_register_fields_for_additional_settings’); After that, you define the callback for your settings field: function my_awesome_pagelink_for_frontend_button_html(){ $option = (int)get_option(‘my_awesome_pagelink_for_frontend_button’,0); wp_dropdown_pages(array( ‘selected’ => $option, ‘name’ => ‘my_awesome_pagelink_for_frontend_button’, ‘show_option_none’ => ‘Please Choose’, ‘option_none_value’ => … Read more
How to set selected attribute on option after filter query?
Ok – it’s not the prettiest way to solve this, but this is what I came up with. Using a combination of session storage and a little javascript. First – I added session_start() to the beginning of my file. Then in query_posts_by_status I added $_SESSION[‘request_status’] = $request_status. This gave me access to the global $_SESSION … Read more
Pagination in wp-admin for CPT
Thank you for your help – I have found the offending function. The plugin is meant to manage about 400,000 case files and provide a fast search. In order to manage the search on the front-end of the site, I need to manipulate the number of results found for any given search, so I added … Read more