Editing Help Section
Do NOT edit core files! You can add to or override the default text by using a filter. Try taking a look at http://justintadlock.com/archives/2011/06/02/adding-contextual-help-to-plugin-and-theme-admin-pages
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Limit ‘contributers’ abilities in WordPress
When you register your post type you can show/hide the UI in the arguments. I would approach it this way: $allowed = current_user_can(‘administrator’) ? true : false; $args = array( //other args ‘show_ui’ => $allowed ); //register_post_type() function; This will maintain the custom post type architecture while hiding the UI for those who are not … Read more
Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected Token Illegal
Ok this appears to have been solved by turning on short open tag and zlib output compression in the php settings of WAMP
Redirect plugin after form submit or show errors
well it looks like I worked this out. On the actual admin page I need to declare my $errors array as global as well global $errors; I guess wordpress must somehow box the admin page into a function and so the $errors array was not referencing the global var.
Prevent Registration Where Role is None?
Hmm – if they have no role, it may be that they are coming in through some other way and adding that action will not help. What plugins do you have active ? also are you sharing a wp user database with another system?
I made new theme directory, why won’t it show up in admin GUI?
I have Multi-Site enabled. That means I must first log in as a super admin, then go to “super admin” > “themes” option in left menu (inside wp-admin), and then enable it there first.
Adding a jQuery modal dialog to the admin area
Don’t know if this could help you, I used this to manage a image field from a meta-box in the post admin page : add_action( ‘load-post.php’, ‘ImageOnSlider_scripts’ ); add_action( ‘load-post-new.php’, ‘ImageOnSlider_scripts’ ); function ImageOnSlider_scripts() { wp_enqueue_script(‘media-upload’); wp_enqueue_script(‘thickbox’); wp_register_script(‘my-upload’, WP_THEME_URL.’/js/name_of_script.js’, array(‘jquery’,’media-upload’,’thickbox’)); wp_enqueue_script(‘my-upload’); wp_enqueue_style(‘thickbox’); } and the JS : jQuery(document).ready(function() { jQuery(‘#upload_image_button’).click(function() { formfield = jQuery(‘#input-ImageOnSlider’).attr(‘name’); tb_show(”, … Read more
using admin functions on frontend
Put the following line before using the function. require_once( ABSPATH . ‘/wp-admin/includes/image.php’ );
How to add captcha to publish widget
Why don’t you set the Contributor role for your site users. Then when they write a new post it will have to be reviewed by an Administrator before it gets published. Have a look at this link also -> http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities
Dashboard RSS Widget Overhaul
I edited default-widgets.php – function wp_widget_rss_output () but it’s still not showing any changes. There is NO NEED TO MODIFY CORE FILES!!!! Especially with dashboard widgets where a very extensible API as been provided by WordPress. PS: I’m using WPMUDEV Dashboard Feeds plugin. This plugin changes the widget_options so that I can show my own … Read more