Shortcut to widget/sidebar editing on the admin menu?

I think that using standard WP featurs there’s no shortcut. But you can workaround using a custom widget. As example create a very simple widget, something like: class MyPageWidget extends WP_Widget { function __construct() { parent::__construct( ‘MyPageWidget’, ‘My Page Widget’ ); } function widget( $args ) { $page = get_page_by_path(‘sidebar-page’); if ( ! empty($page) ) … Read more

How to change the default url for ‘Posts’ link?

Probably the below code should help you. function myadminurl() { // generate url path to Posts -> Categories page in the admin and force http $url = admin_url( ‘edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category’, ‘http’ ); echo $url; } add_action( ‘init’, ‘myadminurl’ ); Please refer this codex for more information.

Dropdown list of available posts for post editing

OK!! I found the solution on this page: http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/field-types/relationship/ using Basic loop without setup_postdata worked like a dream!! GREAT PLUGIN!! Will review for others. Great documentation and geared towards the less than hard core developers. Thanks Shazzad for the referral!