Sometimes the admin area of WordPress needs to be customized. One way to start is to change the text in the footer.
Month: December 2010
Fetch the User-Agent String and Save as User Meta
Some times a client will complain that their site doesn’t look right or something equally as vague. Inevitable we ask “What browser are you using?” but getting the answer can be tricky. So, let’s just automatically get their user-agent and save it where we can access it.
Granted, this isn’t perfect. The client could have just logged in from someone else’s computer, and it is possible to fake the user-agent… but I’m counting on this being rare.
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Including Custom Fields Inside Your Post
WordPress/TinyMCE will sometimes remove code that you’d rather it not. For example, have you have tried to add a Google Map to a post without the aid of a plugin? You can’t. The iframes aren’t allowed.
Because of this, and a few other similar instances, I wrote a plugin that would let me easily bypass this filters. Continue reading Including Custom Fields Inside Your Post
Swap Color Schemes When in the Network Admin
In WordPress 3.1, the network-wide options being moved to their own area in WordPress to make it easier on network administrators.
To take a just a bit further, I put together this script that will switch color schemes when you’re in the Network Admin.
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Confirm Email Address
If you’re running a WordPress network, and depending on how you’re using it, you may need to get users to confirm or update their email address.
In my situation, I build a lot of sites for clients, and during development I use an email address of my own so they don’t get bombarded with emails they don’t need. But I don’t always change it back when I’m done, or maybe there’s a typo. Or maybe it’s the client that has changed their email address.
Whatever the cause, sometimes these things just need to be double-checked and confirmed. So here’s a small plugin that can be dropped in your mu-plugins folder: