Back in June I posted about tidying up the WordPress admin dashboard [http://erisds.co.uk/wordpress/snippet-wordpress-admin-tidy-dashboard-widgets-by-role] . Recently I got a comment on that article asking if the admin menu could be altered for different users in a similar way. Here's the question: > Can I lose…
Earlier this week I received an email requesting some help with a WordPress install that had been hacked. The site was almost 3 years old and was still running WordPress 2.2. It was quite funny getting to see and play with retro WordPress again, but it had to go.…
Recently I worked on a Wordpress site where I wanted to be able to customise the dashboard for different user roles. Wordpress has the default roles [http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities] of administrators, editors, authors, contributors and subscribers. It's not too much to assume you might…
These functions and hooks let you customise the output of the_excerpt() template tag. Just copy and paste into the functions.php file in your theme. This works for both posts and pages. To change the excerpt length (how many words are output - the default is 55 words) , define…
This past week and a half I have "moved home" in more ways than one. Not only have I had to move EVERYTHING out of the house we bought 8 months ago so that electricians can re-wire the entire place, but I have also moved this blog to…
This past week or so I've been a busy bee re-writing the CSS for this blog. That might sound like an odd thing to do, but it had become unmanageable and was slowing me down. So this is a quick heads up, if you spot any bugs please…
Please Note: This article was written about Pods CMS version 1.6.6 and you'll find some of the bugs and issues mentioned are now resolved. Have you ever needed to build a website which fit into the "Posts & Page" paradigm of Wordpress 95%, but…
Over the weekend I updated my blog to Wordpress 2.8 [http://wordpress.org/development/2009/06/wordpress-28/]. It's been a relatively smooth process complete screw-up (see my comment at the bottom) although I lost my archive and recent post widgets as I had hacked them to be…