sounds like something is breaking your javascript. Install/Open Firebug (if using firefox) and check the console for JavaScript errors then debug from there. It’s probably a plugin loading some conflicting JS. The other thing I’ve seen do this is loading jQuery from Google CDN in the backend. So if your theme is using the fairly … Read more
If you set the action of the form to the page which you want to do the processing, it will redirect to that page as well as setting all the $_GET and $_POST variables up for easy access.
Yes. You can do this by adding a dashboard widget with a contact form function that uses AJAX to submit the form. function myplugin_dashboard_widget() { ajax_contact_form(); } function myplugin_add_dashboard_widgets() { wp_add_dashboard_widget(‘myplugin_contact_widget’, ‘My Plugin Contact Form’, ‘myplugin_dashboard_widget’); } add_action(‘wp_dashboard_setup’, ‘myplugin_add_dashboard_widgets’ );
I’ve edited my question to include the fact that I’ve found the answer to my own question here http://www.code-styling.de/english/how-to-use-wordpress-metaboxes-at-own-plugins in case anyone finds the question while searching for a similar solution. The two column variation he includes in his solution no longer seems to work but is a simple thing to override.
is_admin() only checkes if the dashboard page is displayed or not, if you want to tell the role of a user, try current_user_can( $capability )
You’re looking for a way to style the backend. On one level, you could just create a custom admin theme (Codex description). On another level, you could use a plugin like White Label CMS to completely re-brand WordPress.
You’ll want to look into the add_menu_page() function and then use the $position parameter to place it in the menu where you want it.
Removing the dashboard: /* Remove the “Dashboard” from the admin menu for non-admin users */ function wpse54085_remove_dashboard () { global $current_user, $menu, $submenu; get_currentuserinfo(); if( ! in_array( ‘administrator’, $current_user->roles ) ) { reset( $menu ); $page = key( $menu ); while( ( __( ‘Dashboard’ ) != $menu[$page][0] ) && next( $menu ) ) { $page … Read more
I’ve a solution of my problem. I used chrome developer tool to find out the differences between the sites in my server and in my localhost. While inspecting the source I found following error- <div class=”inside”> <br> <b>Fatal error</b>: Out of memory (allocated 43778048) (tried to allocate 132605 bytes) in <b>/home/easyitca/public_html/samples/movierez/wp-includes/wp-db.php</b> on line <b>787</b><br> </div> … Read more
Check the page template setting – is it set to default? If not, look at the code for the template itself. I’ve seen new WP devs manually insert scripts and codes directly into the template rather than enqueue in functions.php. What plugin is being used to manage the gallery?