Serial Design Group

Give Editors access to Redirection

serialdesigngroup — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:54:07 +0000

Redirection is a powerful tool allowing you to manage redirects for your WordPress site. For a recent project we needed to allow users with a role of Editor to add and manage redirects, so we had to do a little plugin tweaking to get that access granted. Here is what you need to do.

On line 121 of this file:
/wp-content/plugins/redirection/redirection.php

Replace this:

function admin_menu() {
  	add_management_page( __( "Redirection", 'redirection' ), __( "Redirection", 'redirection' ), "delete_others_pages", basename( __FILE__ ), array( &$this, "admin_screen" ) );
	}

With this:

function admin_menu() {
  	add_management_page( __( "Redirection", 'redirection' ), __( "Redirection", 'redirection' ), "manage_options", basename( __FILE__ ), array( &$this, "admin_screen" ) );
	}

On line 36 of this file:
/wp-content/plugins/redirection/ajax.php

Replace this:

function init() {
		if ( current_user_can( 'administrator' ) ) {
			$this->post = stripslashes_deep( $_POST );

			$this->register_ajax( 'red_log_show' );
			$this->register_ajax( 'red_log_hide' );
			$this->register_ajax( 'red_log_delete' );

With this:

function init() {
		if ( current_user_can( 'delete_others_pages' ) ) {
			$this->post = stripslashes_deep( $_POST );

			$this->register_ajax( 'red_log_show' );
			$this->register_ajax( 'red_log_hide' );
			$this->register_ajax( 'red_log_delete' );

The first edit above allows Editors to see the Redirection navigation item under the Tools menu in the admin area. The second edit allows Editors to add/edit/save redirects via the Redirection screen.

Convert one post type to another another

serialdesigngroup — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 09:08:57 +0000

If you can’t tell yet, we’re a huge fan of custom post types in our theme development and blog tutorials. They allow us to create feature rich admin areas while keeping with the intuitiveness that is WordPress; so, of course, we dig em! Have you ever created a custom post type, but wanted to convert a bunch of already written posts into that new post type? To accomplish this task, we’ve used a Post Type Switcher in the past, however, as of WordPress 3.1 that plugin no longer works so we needed to get down and dirty in the database for this one. Here is how you do it:

Backup your database just in case you need to roll back for some reason, we’ve never had a problem running the SQL below, but its generally a good idea to back up the DB when performing any action like this.
Run the SQL below in phpMyAdmin, tweaking it to your needs first.

UPDATE wp_posts p
JOIN wp_term_relationships tr ON (p.ID = tr.object_id)
JOIN wp_term_taxonomy tt ON (tr.term_taxonomy_id = tt.term_taxonomy_id)
JOIN wp_terms t ON (tt.term_id = t.term_id)
SET post_type = 'event'
WHERE p.post_type = 'post'
AND p.post_status = 'publish'
AND tt.taxonomy = 'category'
AND t.name = 'Events'

The code above takes posts in the “post” post type that are “publish”ed and in the category “Events” and converts them to the post type “event”. Yes, we’re using The Events Calendar as an example yet again. Now your events that used to be grouped in with all your other posts now have a neat new home under their own Event post type menu in the admin, making tutorials for clients that much easier!

Custom Post Type Admin Icons

serialdesigngroup — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:58:12 +0000

Let’s face it, its pretty awesome having the ability to add a custom icon to your admin menus for custom post types. Here is a bit of code we added to the function.php file of our theme for a recent project. All you need to do is drop your custom icons in the images directory of you theme and tweak the code below. “Newsletters” and “Events” are the names of our 2 custom post types for this project.

add_action( 'admin_head', 'cpt_icons' );
function cpt_icons() {
    ?>
    

You can find a sweet collection of icons and further direction at RandyJensenOnline.com.

Custom Post Type RSS Feed

serialdesigngroup — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:35:54 +0000

Here is a neat little trick to display all posts from a custom post type via feed in WordPress. This comes in handy if you’re looking to pull posts from a certain post type into an external site using something like the Google RSS Feed Displayer.


http://example.com/feed/?post_type=yourposttype

The Events Calendar Doesn’t Display Today’s Event on Upcoming Events Page

serialdesigngroup — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:29:05 +0000

We’ve seen this issue a couple times on a few different sites. It seems to come and go and is always a major issue when it happens. The Events Calendar plugin will stop displaying today’s event on the upcoming events page and move it to the past events page which leads to chaos if you’re in the process of promoting that event. Here is a simple fix to correct this problem, remember to update this code each time you upgrade the plugin.

On line 15 of this file:
/wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/the-events-calendar.class.php

Replace this:

const DBDATETIMEFORMAT = 'Y-m-d G:i:s';

With this:

const DBDATETIMEFORMAT = 'Y-m-d';

The Events Calendar and Custom Post Types

serialdesigngroup — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:35:51 +0000

The Events Calendar plugin is outstanding for tracking events within WordPress sites and blogs. The integration of templates into your own theme means you don’t risk overwriting updates each time you upgrade the plugin. This is probably the strongest event calendar plugin we’ve used, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some tweaks that could be made. Unfortunately, all events are listed as regular posts in WordPress; this works fine, but if you’re a neat-freak like we are, you like to have everything in its own place using custom post types. Because The Events Calendar doesn’t support custom post types (yet), we have to force it a little. It’s actually pretty easy and only take a little bit of code to complete, check it out below.

On line 1029 of this file:
/wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/the-events-calendar.class.php

Replace this:

public function addEventBox( ) {
add_meta_box( 'Event Details', __( 'The Events Calendar', 'Events_textdomain' ),
array( $this, 'EventsChooserBox' ), 'post', 'normal', 'high' );
}

With this:

public function addEventBox( ) {
add_meta_box(
'Event Details', __( 'The Events Calendar', 'Events_textdomain' ),
array( $this, 'EventsChooserBox' ), 'post', 'normal', 'high' );
add_meta_box( 'Event Details', __( 'The Events Calendar', 'Events_textdomain' ),
array( $this, 'EventsChooserBox' ), 'events', 'normal', 'high' );
}

The word “events” on line 6 is the name of your custom post type. We use “events” because, well, they are events.

Now that the events are showing in your custom post types, you’ll need to edit the events templates, these are kept in the “events” directory within your theme. All you need to do is tweak the query to pull the custom post type, so add the following line of code right before the loop starts:

Contact Form 7 Clear Default Value

serialdesigngroup — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:32:54 +0000

Contact Form 7 is one of our favorite form plugins because its updated regularly and there are a ton of extensions you can install that make the user-experience that much more rewarding; our favorite is the Database Extension. One feature that people have been asking about for quite some time is the ability to clear the default value of a field onClick or onFocus. This can be done easily by changing a couple lnes of code in the plugin, but remember, when you upgrade Contact Form 7, you’ll need to reapply this change.

On line 89 in this file:
/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/modules/text.php

Replace this:

$html = '';

With this:

$html = '';

And on line 88 in this file:
/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/modules/textarea.php

Replace this:

$html = '' . esc_html( $value ) . '';

With this:

$html = '' . esc_html( $value ) . '';

With those 2 tweaks you should be able to clear the default value each time the user clicks the text field or text area.

Custom Post Types

serialdesigngroup — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:18:06 +0000

Okay, if you’re not impressed with WordPress yet, you’ve got to take alook at 3.0. The development team has really made some significant updates for power users. Those who love to develop wordpress sites, like we do, you’re gonna love having the ability to create your won custom post types.

To implement this most excellent feature, just paste the following into your themes functions.php file and tweak to your delight.

register_post_type('products', array(
	'label' => __('Products'),
	'singular_label' => __('Products'),
	'public' => true,
	'show_ui' => true,
	'capability_type' => 'post',
	'hierarchical' => false,
	'rewrite' => false,
	'query_var' => false,
	'supports' => array('title', 'editor', 'author')
));

Can’t get much easier than that. Having this ability will allow us, as Wrodpress developers, to create more custom user interfaces for the content management systems we produce. Have fun with it!

Social Bookmarking Link Codes

serialdesigngroup — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:02:29 +0000

How many times have you been building a custom WordPress theme and had to search for the appropriate social bookmarking link needed for your design? Well, search no more, you’ll find all the major players below:

Blinklist

http://www.blinklist.com/index.php?Action=Blink/addblink.php&Url=&Title=

Delicious

http://delicious.com/post?url=&title=&notes=

Design Bump

http://www.designbump.com/submit?url=&title=

Design Float

http://www.designfloat.com/submit.php?url=&title=

Design Moo

http://www.designmoo.com/submit?url=&title=

Digg

http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=&title=&bodytext=

Diigo

http://www.diigo.com/post?url=&title=

Dzone

http://www.dzone.com/links/add.html?url=&title=

Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=&t=

Fark

http://cgi.fark.com/cgi/fark/farkit.pl?h=&u=

Friendfeed

http://www.friendfeed.com/share?title=&link=

Google Bookmarks

http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&bkmk=&title=&annotation=

Hacker News

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=&t=

Identi.ca

http://identi.ca/notice/new?status_textarea=

Linked In

http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=&title=&summary=

Live Favorites

https://favorites.live.com/quickadd.aspx?marklet=1&url=&title=

Mister Wong

http://www.mister-wong.com/addurl/?bm_url=&bm_description=

Mixx

http://www.mixx.com/submit?page_url=&title=

MySpace

http://www.myspace.com/Modules/PostTo/Pages/?u=&t=

Netvibes

http://www.netvibes.com/share?title=&url=

Newsvine

http://www.newsvine.com/_tools/seed&save?u=&h=

Ping.fm

http://ping.fm/ref/?link=&title=&body=

Posterous

http://posterous.com/share?linkto=&title=&selection=

Propeller

http://www.propeller.com/submit/?url=

http://reddit.com/submit?url=&title=

Slashdot

http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?title=&url=

Sphere

http://www.sphere.com/search?q=sphereit:&title=

Sphinn

http://sphinn.com/index.php?c=post&m=submit&link=

StumbleUpon

http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=&title=

Technorati

http://technorati.com/faves?add=

Tipd

http://tipd.com/submit.php?url=

Tumblr

http://www.tumblr.com/share?v=3&u=&t=&s=

Twitter

http://twitter.com/home?status= -

Yahoo Bookmarks

http://bookmarks.yahoo.com/toolbar/savebm?u=&t=

Yahoo Buzz

http://buzz.yahoo.com/submit/?submitUrl=&submitHeadline=&submitSummary=&submitCategory=science&submitAssetType=text

Change the Status of all WordPress Posts

serialdesigngroup — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:26:49 +0000

We recently worked on a project where the client had a blog they wanted reskinned to match a new site design. During development, they decided to start this blog from scratch with all new posts, but they still wanted to keep the older posts just in case they needed to reference them at some point. This can be done fairly easily via the database, and here it the SQL to do it:

update wp_posts set post_status = replace(post_status, 'publish', 'draft');
update wp_posts set post_status = replace(post_status, 'inherit', 'draft');

Serial Design Group

Give Editors access to Redirection

Convert one post type to another another

Custom Post Type Admin Icons

Custom Post Type RSS Feed

The Events Calendar Doesn’t Display Today’s Event on Upcoming Events Page

The Events Calendar and Custom Post Types

Contact Form 7 Clear Default Value

Custom Post Types

Social Bookmarking Link Codes

Blinklist

Delicious

Design Bump

Design Float

Design Moo

Digg

Diigo

Dzone

Facebook

Fark

Friendfeed

Google Bookmarks

Hacker News

Identi.ca

Linked In

Live Favorites

Mister Wong

Mixx

MySpace

Netvibes

Newsvine

Ping.fm

Posterous

Propeller

Reddit

Slashdot

Sphere

Sphinn

StumbleUpon

Technorati

Tipd

Tumblr

Twitter

Yahoo Bookmarks

Yahoo Buzz

Change the Status of all WordPress Posts