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Comment on Page Excerpt by Posts vs. Pages | sillybean.net

Posts vs. Pages | sillybean.net — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:07:20 +0000

[...] which are for posts only. However, you can easily use them for pages as well with a plugin such as PJW Page Excerpt or Excerpt Editor. Posted on August 3, 2009 at 5:02 pm in Posts and Pages · [...]

Comment on Adding extra user meta fields by Kim

Kim — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:51:29 +0000

For all of those wanting the possibility to create and manage the custom profile fields, give me a signal on my email if you want my custom profile manager plugin it’s not on WP plugins repository because it’s still part of a bigger ecommerce plugin suite. I’ll be glad to strip it out and make it a standalone plugin.

Greets!

Comment on Mangling strings for fun and profit by Ryan McCue

Ryan McCue — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:29:51 +0000

Your code is somewhat inefficient. The get_translations_for_domain() call should be inside the if block

Also, I love the fact that you have more comments than code.

Comment on Mangling strings for fun and profit by mercime

mercime — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:53:26 +0000

Thank you very much Westi. I was referred to this solution by DJPaul at BuddyPress Forums when I wanted to find a simpler and easier to override text output from BP parent theme’s template function. From 45 lines of code to replace a single sentence in child theme’s functions.php to 10 lines of code in same functions.php – Awesome!

Comment on Mangling strings for fun and profit by Around the WordPress Community: WPMU Merger, Widgets, Custom Fields, Shortcodes | WordCast - Blogging news, WordPress help, WordPress plugins, WordPress themes, WordPress news

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:02:43 +0000

[...] Translation Strings: Mangling strings for fun and profit: Peter Westwood gives simple tips for improving the quality of translation strings in WordPress Themes. [...]

Comment on Windows WordPress Toolbox by jazzvox

jazzvox — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:37:36 +0000

Great post, pictures work better than terms, thanks for your effort
Only that WinGrep seems to be not available on my WIN 7 Pro, any hint for that ??
I just started to make use of TortoiseSVN, seems to be working flawless with Subclipse in a PDT installation. Complex but digestable…

Comment on More snow! by Donncha

Donncha — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:43:34 +0000

Apparently 5cm of snow fell on Dublin yesterday and the city ground to a halt. No snow here in Cork though, just cold and ice!

(Glad I work from home!)

Comment on Mangling strings for fun and profit by mkjones

mkjones — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:38:29 +0000

Currently I do something like:


	global $menu, $submenu, $wp_taxonomies;

	// Unset Post & Page menus so we can change them
	unset($menu[5]);
	unset($menu[10]);	
	unset($menu[20]);

	// Change menu order to reflect new positions
	//New Pages
	$menu[5] = array(__('Pages'), 'edit_pages', 'edit-pages.php', '', 'wp-menu-open menu-top', 'menu-pages', 'div');
	$submenu['edit-pages.php'][5] = array(__('Edit'), 'edit_pages', 'edit-pages.php');
	$submenu['edit-pages.php'][10] = array(_c('Add New|page'), 'edit_pages', 'page-new.php');	

	//New Posts (News)
	$menu[10] = array(__('News'), 'edit_posts', 'edit.php', '', 'menu-top', 'menu-posts', 'div');
	$submenu['edit.php'][5]  = array(__('Edit'), 'edit_posts', 'edit.php');
.... etc

Which allows me to move menu items (Media between Pages and Posts always annoys me) and rename them, in this case Posts to News. Is this possible using the translation function?

Comment on Mangling strings for fun and profit by westi

westi — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:06:31 +0000

Yes you should be able to do that too very easily with multiple replacements in the one function.

Comment on Mangling strings for fun and profit by mkjones

mkjones — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:39:55 +0000

Really great tip

Is it possible to use this function to re-name admin menu items when activating a theme?

For example, if I wanted to change “Posts” to “News”?

Or the “Appearance” tab back to “Themes” maybe?

I’d love to be able to do total admin menu overhauls using theme functions rather than plugins.

Comment on Mangling strings for fun and profit by westi

westi — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:28:40 +0000

Force of habit, more than anything.

I like to do it that way so as to keep everything namespaced and not take top level function names.

I only use top level function names, in plugins, as wrappers when providing template tags.

Comment on Mangling strings for fun and profit by Donncha

Donncha — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:42:35 +0000

Hadn’t thought of using that gettext filter. There’s a filter in wp-super-cache that allows you to filter the contents of the page that is about to be cached. I wrote a small function that deletes the moderation message for comments as a small exercise because the string isn’t filterable, or so I thought!

This way is much neater. Thanks!

Comment on Mangling strings for fun and profit by scribu

scribu — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:05:06 +0000

Pretty cool. Is there a reason why you put that single function in a class?

Comment on Adding extra user meta fields by Debbie Campbell

Debbie Campbell — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:26:30 +0000

We did get the custom meta data plugin working correctly; now all that’s left is getting the Create Your Community plugin working but that’s a separate matter. When CYC is activated all custom data is hidden; when it’s off, it’s visible.

Comment on The snow is falling and it is not christmas yet by Tim

Tim — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:20:44 +0000