My Monkey Do

Custom WordPress Comments

June 27, 2011 by Webhead

This guy explains how to customize WordPress comments pretty well:

http://devpress.com/blog/using-the-wordpress-comment-form/

Disable HTML in Comments

You can try this plugin found on : http://www.theblog.ca/literal-comments

// This will occur when the comment is posted
function plc_comment_post( $incoming_comment ) {

	// convert everything in a comment to display literally
	$incoming_comment['comment_content'] = htmlspecialchars($incoming_comment['comment_content']);

	// the one exception is single quotes, which cannot be #039; because WordPress marks it as spam
	$incoming_comment['comment_content'] = str_replace( "'", ''', $incoming_comment['comment_content'] );

	return( $incoming_comment );
}

// This will occur before a comment is displayed
function plc_comment_display( $comment_to_display ) {

	// Put the single quotes back in
	$comment_to_display = str_replace( ''', "'", $comment_to_display );

	return $comment_to_display;
}

add_filter( 'preprocess_comment', 'plc_comment_post', '', 1);
add_filter( 'comment_text', 'plc_comment_display', '', 1);
add_filter( 'comment_text_rss', 'plc_comment_display', '', 1);
add_filter( 'comment_excerpt', 'plc_comment_display', '', 1);

Google Spreadsheet Adding Hyperlink

June 17, 2011 by Webhead

To add a hyperlink to a google spreadsheet enter the following into a cell:

=HYPERLINK(“www.mymonkeydo.com”, “My Monkey Do”)

Do not put in the “http://” part otherwise it may not work.

See the Example Spreadsheet.

Problem:

PHP is throwing errors saying it cannot find a directory when trying to upload a file. This usually means PHP does not have permissions to create or modify files in that directory.

Solution:

I’m not sure why, but adding Modify and Write permissions for COMPUTERUsers group solves the problem. Found the solution here: http://forums.iis.net/t/1153990.aspx

WordPress has tons of features, but most clients just need to edit pages and want a content management system. I needed to get rid of all the fat.

Complicated Menus

To get rid of the menus on the dashboard for all roles except the admin place the following code in the functions.php of your theme.

function remove_menus () {
    global $menu;
    if (!(current_user_can('install_themes'))) {
        $restricted = array(__('Dashboard'), __('Posts'), __('Media'), __('Links'), __('Pages'), __('Appearance'), __('Tools'), __('Users'), __('Settings'), __('Comments'), __('Plugins'));
    }
    else {
        return;
    }
	end ($menu);
	while (prev($menu)){
		$value = explode(' ',$menu[key($menu)][0]);
		if(in_array($value[0] != NULL?$value[0]:"" , $restricted)){unset($menu[key($menu)]);}
	}
}
add_action('admin_menu', 'remove_menus');

Thanks to http://www.wprecipes.com/how-to-remove-menus-in-wordpress-dashboard

Redirected Login

A problem that arises from this is the dashboard is pretty much useless. You can use this plugin to redirect a user to a specific page based on their role: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/peters-login-redirect/

Easy TinyMCE adjustments

One plugin that makes this very simple: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tinymce-advanced/

Preload Images with Jquery

June 15, 2011 by Webhead

Very impressive preloading:

http://www.dynamicwp.net/articles-and-tutorials/how-to-create-preload-images-with-jquery-in-wordpress/

Drop Shadow with CSS