This is the most recent post my series on customizing the Manage Posts/Pages screen. The first couple posts dealt with adding custom columns to the Manage Posts and Manage Pages screens and this post will demonstrate how one can add custom filtering to the Manage Posts screen using the restrict_manage_posts action.
I’ve updated the code that I published a couple days ago. It now supports multiple blogs and three notification methods:
A more primitive alternative to using a python script for notification about new comments is to just use good ol’ AppleScript. Apparently, it can do XML-RPC calls and Growl notifications out-of-the-box (with Growl installed, at least). The script below will go out and check for new comments on your blog. It’ll only do it once as I didn’t want to dig into this too much, but maybe it’s also possible to sleep in AppleScript.
Matt Mullenweg mentioned earlier today a plugin/application combo that displays a system tray popup on Windows whenever you have comments awaiting moderation. He also expressed a desire to see something like that for OSX. I thought it’d be nice too and given the lovely weather, I had some time on my hands.
I released Version 0.7 of Zensor a couple days ago. It can be downloaded from WordPress.org.
I wanted to tie together my two recent posts on adding custom columns to the WordPress manage posts screen and the Manage Pages custom columns plugin I released. Below, I’ll extend the code from the first post to use the plugin announced in the second post to add a custom column or two to the Manage Pages screen.
I just released Version 1.0 of Manage Pages Custom Columns, a plugin for WordPress.
An under-documented technique available to WordPress plugin developers that I use in Zensor is adding custom columns to the Manage Posts screen in the admin interface. A search on Google or the Codex turns up very little. The only references on the Codex are on the pages listing all Filters and Actions.
The action/filter that I’m talking about is the complementary pair manage_posts_columns and manage_posts_custom_column. Combined, they let a plugin developer add new columns or shift around/delete existing columns on the Manage Posts screen.
I just released Version 0.6 of Zensor. You should download it now! “What is Zensor?”, you might be asking. Well, let me tell you.
