Of the few I’ve seen, I think that most “premium” Themes way over-complicate Theme Settings pages. I generally prefer Theme Settings pages that maintain the style/layout of the rest of the WP-Admin UI. So, these would be my rules of thumb: Incorporate meaningful settings, and not necessarily every possible setting under the sun. Organize settings … Read more
My number 1 feature would be to have the ability to use WordPress to manage a fan page. It would have to have the ability to use a WordPress page to create a Facebook page application tab. Published posts would auto publish to the Facebook wall and comments would sync between WordPress and Facebook.
How about native Thickbox with the native jQuery tabs for example: the widget it self is simple and only has a link but one you click on it the thickbox pops up and shows all of the options grouped by tabs: let me know what you think I’ll fetch the code for you.
The error isn’t actually caused by your PHP version (PHP 4 constructors won’t be removed until PHP 7) – it’s a warning produced by WordPress in preparation for this. Each repetition of the error represents a plugin using the outdated code. Until your plugins’ authors update them, you can run the following shell command on … Read more
You can use the filter screen_layout_columns to set only one column for the post screen get_user_option_screen_layout_post to force the user option to 1. If you want to use that for custom post type then use get_user_option_screen_layout_{post_type} The following code will do it: function so_screen_layout_columns( $columns ) { $columns[‘post’] = 1; return $columns; } add_filter( ‘screen_layout_columns’, … Read more
You will need to start reading about the setting and options API, and then pull your CPT and Taxonomies into it. Have a start here: Creating Options Pages « WordPress Codex Settings API « WordPress Codex WordPress Settings API (options page) Generator Class Reference/WP List Table « WordPress Codex Custom List Table Example Plugin – … Read more
Have you seen http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-native-dashboard/? I think it does exactly what you are asking. Also ‘interesting’ is http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/in-their-language/ which attempts to set the locale automatically based n browser settings.
You can remove the default meta boxes with remove_meta_box and re-add them in a different position with add_meta_box: add_action(‘do_meta_boxes’, ‘wpse33063_move_meta_box’); function wpse33063_move_meta_box(){ remove_meta_box( ‘postimagediv’, ‘post’, ‘side’ ); add_meta_box(‘postimagediv’, __(‘Featured Image’), ‘post_thumbnail_meta_box’, ‘post’, ‘normal’, ‘high’); } The answer above is from the following thread: How to change default position of WP meta boxes? UPDATE If the … Read more
There is a plugin by Scribu called Category Checklist Tree that disables this “feature”.
Custom UI is great where it improves the experience and makes the task easier. After all, a plugin extends WordPress and therefore a lot of the time is extending the user interface. This might mean a screen that is arranged completely differently to any other screen, but if it is logical and understandable then there’s … Read more