Tag: backend

  • Create your own bulk actions

    Including version 4.6 it was quite difficult to add custom bulk actions to the WordPress admin pages. In version 4.7 a hook is added that simplifies the task a lot: add_action(‘bulk_actions-{screen_id}’, ‘my_bulk_action’); Defining the hook As an example we’ll use the post page, the variables are named accordingly. add_filter( ‘bulk_actions-edit-post’, ‘register_my_bulk_actions’ );

  • WordPress Backend Design Study – An Alternative to MP6?

    Our designer and usability expert Nick at marketpress.com did a design study on the coming WordPress backend design MP6 for version 3.7 and tried to analyse what can be done better and how! Also interesting question he asks: The dashboard is the least used and yet most needed page in the back-end. Why? More screens…

  • WordPress Dropins

    Plugins are pretty popular, since it is easy to adjust your blog or website to your liking with Plugins. Less popular are Dropins. WordPress alows to replace some functions with Dropins. The list of possibilities isn’t big and not well documented. But I like to use Dropins to enhance the possibilties of caching, especially APC…

  • Hide Welcome Panel for WordPress Multisite

    With a major release update of WordPress, everytime all new functions will be displayed after updating. Basically a good idea, which displays all new features on one page. However, this is not always intentional. In the corporate environment, large groups of users aren’t interested in it, so that this screen only provides additional work for…

  • WP_List_Table – a step by step guide

    WP_List_Table – a step by step guide

    Throughout WordPress the class WP_List_Table is used to display data, e.g. users, plugins, comments, or posts. The class contains almost all necessary methods for displaying, sorting, paginating, and searching data and and what is more obvious than to use it for your own plugins? This article tries to give you a comprehensive walk-through all necessary…

  • Register Settings on WordPress Multisite

    Register Settings on WordPress Multisite

    The use of WordPress for several blogs in the network can be useful to simplify several steps and is becoming increasingly popular. Whether you want the classical scenarios of blog hosting service or like to create multilingual websites or other ideas. Therefore, it is also important for plugin developers to use the functions and to…