WordPress Screencast Tutorial: Post Edit Panel Hack
I have to say, it worked beautifully but something I didn’t mention in the screencast above was that in Kulpreet’s notes he removed the “Related” tab to make room for the Categories on the right sidebar. What I have now done is add the code back into the PHP file for “Related” although I customized it so it will only show me the “View Drafts” button.
These are things I use all the time so I’m not missing out at all by completely removing the “View all tags” button (found within the “Related” tab).
The customization went smoothly, only took a few minutes, and I’m really pleased that I have now optimized my Post Editing page. Tinkering of this magnitude is not advised for those who have never before worked with PHP files, I highly recommend this trick as long as you make sure to back up your original files.
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May 14th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Hi Rebecca,
Do you remember at WordCamp someone said “There’s a plugin for everything?”
go figure…
http://beyn.org/sidecat/
It might have some differences with what I’ve done but the concept is the same.
thanks,
-k.s.
May 14th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Wow thanks for posting this up. I missed having the categories on the side too. Will try this out on the weekend. Hope the customization will go as smooth as yours.
May 14th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Oh well, this is how I learn things - by getting my hands dirty
Very cool, thanks for everything.
May 14th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Hi Rebecca (and readers),
An update - Peter Keung has taken the above plugin and my work and made a new plugin which you can get here:
http://www.theblog.ca/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/sidecat_reloaded.txt
I would recommend non-coder users of WordPress to use the plugin instead because it’s easier and it should be more consistent across different versions.
May 21st, 2008 at 2:12 pm
I only use a category or two, for me I’m more interested in seeing how the tag field feels in the sidebar.
At one stage in development of 2.5 the sidebar moved down the page with the scrolling. I thought that was useful too.
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