wp-admin

How to display a static HTML page while setting up a WordPress site?

Either use a plugin (like wp-maintenance-mode) or hardcode your .htaccess file to redirect to the splash page, and allow your own (or your team) IP address to ignore the redirect. Like this: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^127\.0\.0\.1 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/splashpage.html$ [NC] RewriteRule .* /maintenance.html [R=302,L] </IfModule> Regarding your doubt why index.html gets served … Read more

Show all post tags on post edit screen/sidebox

I’d say the easiest way to do it is use the get_terms_args filter and unset the number limit if the context is right (the AJAX request to get the tag cloud): function wpse_64058_all_tags ( $args ) { if ( defined( ‘DOING_AJAX’ ) && DOING_AJAX && isset( $_POST[‘action’] ) && $_POST[‘action’] === ‘get-tagcloud’ ) unset( $args[‘number’] … Read more

Remove “posts” from admin but show a custom post

Doing this search, I’ve found this fine answer by Chris_O. There’s even a jQuery solution I proposed there. Anyway, the function remove_menu_page(‘edit.php’); only removes the Posts menu. But, as we learn from Chris answer, remove_menu_page(‘edit.php?post_type=athletes’); removes the Custom Post Type menu. To really block access to the URL, as we’re merely hiding the menu item, … Read more

Remove dashboard, use Pages tab as default

The best way is to re-direct user logins to your page and also remove the dashboard from the menu, this can be done with 2 filters. Redirect logins to your page edit screen example based on user roles, this example uses “author”: function dashboard_redirect($url) { global $current_user; // is there a user ? if(is_array($current_user->roles)) { … Read more

Export data as CSV in back end with proper HTTP headers

Do not point the URL to admin.php, use admin-post.php instead: ‘<a href=”‘ . admin_url( ‘admin-post.php?action=print.csv’ ) . ‘”>’ In your plugin register a callback for that action: add_action( ‘admin_post_print.csv’, ‘print_csv’ ); function print_csv() { if ( ! current_user_can( ‘manage_options’ ) ) return; header(‘Content-Type: application/csv’); header(‘Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=example.csv’); header(‘Pragma: no-cache’); // output the CSV data } … Read more

How set defaults on wpLink()

Also an small example for change the url in link-button to use the url from installed blog. Use print JS in footer, not an include from js file via wp_enqueue_script() – ist faster vor development, specially for this small requirement, but not so on standard and fine, how the example from the other answer. <?php … Read more

How to order by post meta name in wp admin?

I assume merchant name is another meta field and not the title for that post type? If so, here is a way to organize your admin edit.php area // Add a column in admin edit.php to display the Merchant post type data you want shown add_filter(‘manage_merchant_posts_columns’, ‘admin_merchant_columns’); function admin_merchant_columns( $posts_columns ) { $posts_columns = array( … Read more

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