Using Built-in Post Finder in Plugins

Posted on 2012/01/20 Comments

I was making some improvements to the KC Posts widget module in my KC Essentials plugin, and I wanted to make it easy for the users to find post IDs they want to include/exclude from the query. As you may already know, in the Media admin page, we can ‘attach’ an attachment to a post. It uses a neat jQuery UI dialog box to find posts. Here’s how I use it in KC Essentials.
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jQuery in Widgets Admin Page

Posted on 2012/01/18 Comments

Here’s a quick tip. If you built a custom widget for your themes/plugins and you need jQuery for the configuration form, you’ll need to call it when the ajax process is done, that is when a widget was just dropped to a sidebar/widget area, or the user just saved the configuration.

jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
  $('.widgets-sortables').ajaxSuccess(function() {
    // do your thing
  });
});

Hacking Term List Table

Posted on 2012/01/11 Comments

Term list table, unlike post list table, is not very customizable. What I needed was to display the thumbnail/icon of each term, to make it easier for the content editors to distinguish one term from another.

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Setting Default File Permission in Linux™

Posted on 2012/01/08 Comments

Here’s the situation; I want every newly created file/directory in /var/www to be owned by user kucrut and group apache, and they should have read/write persmission, while all other users/groups should only have read permission. We will use ACL for this, and it’s usually installed by default. Continue…