Ozh has written up a nice article on the new WordPress 2.7 Favorite Actions menu and puts out the call to developers to write a plugin that would automagically determine the favorite actions of a particular blogger and populate that menu with those options. That would be a truly useful plugin and I would love to see it. Now that we are talking about the Favorite Actions menu and we know that actions can be removed, is there going to be competition/confusion between plugin authors who want to add a link to their plugin’s admin page to the top of that menu? Anyone plan on writing such a plugin?
I recently talked about a tutorial on creating Custom Write Panels in WordPress and thanks to WP Candy, have now found a pretty slick plugin that mimics that feature and adds a lot more. Flutter lets your modify your write page and […]
Original post by Mark Ghosh
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Tutorial: Creating Custom Write Panels in WordPress.: A fantastic, detailed and quite useful tutorial on creating custom write panels for the WordPress Write Post page. I had written something similar for the WordPress Jobs site and it turned out to be a fantastic tool to quickly get to and add/modify Custom Fields in posts. Custom write panels are most useful for customized installations of WordPress and could be used to add many different types of information into a post both easily and quickly. The image below shows a couple of examples of custom panels and I am sure there are hundreds more.
This tutorial makes use of Custom Fields in WordPress using the various functions that help manage Custom Fields (I keep typing customer), and is a shining example of how useful and flexible Custom Fields can be in developing a full CMS with WordPress.
Since the final code is included in […]
Original post by Mark Ghosh
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Nathan Rice who is a prominent theme author within the WordPress community has published an article that explains an easy way to retrieve the contents of a custom field. Instead of doing things the conventional way, Nathan explains how to simply use a function in order to call the contents of the custom field into a theme. This article should be especially useful to theme authors out there who are looking at providing custom field functionality into their work.
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Original post by Jeff Chandler
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One question I come across a lot regarding custom fields is how to only retrieve posts based on a custom field.
For example, if a post has a custom field of “MyData”, someone might want to only retrieve that particular post.
The WordPress Codex has a technique for retrieving posts based on custom fields, which consists of writing your own query and going through the results.
The technique in the Codex is good, but I’ve found a re-usable way one can retrieve only posts with certain custom fields.
The technique I use makes use of two custom functions placed in a theme’s “functions.php” and a custom WordPress Loop.
Let’s get started — The “functions.php” file
First, let’s place the two custom functions in the “functions.php” file. This file should be in your theme directory, but if it isn’t there, you can create one using any text editor.
Here are the two functions below:
function get_custom_field_posts_join($join) {
global $wpdb, […]
Original post by Ronald Huereca
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