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.
Another year in Würzburg, another International Film Weekend. As I did last year, I bought a 10-pack of tickets a couple weeks before the festival took place. Unfortunately, I was only able to find time to use 5 of the tickets to actually see films, but I was happy with my choices. Here’s a quick run-down of what I saw and what I thought about them. There are probably some spoilers.
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.
As part of Django’s ‘batteries included’ philosophy, it comes with the FormPreview class to make it easy to automate this workflow: “Display an HTML form, force a preview, then do something with the submission.” Also provided is the @login_required decorator which makes it easy and obvious to mark functions as requiring a logged-in user. Both these features are awesome by themselves, but wouldn’t it be great to combine them and observe how much the awesomeness increases? Let’s give it a shot.
As part of my top-secret Django project, I’ve enlisted the help of the django-voting and django-tagging packages to provide rating and tagging, respectively, to my models. These work wonders and serve their purpose to a T, however, I’ve come across a couple small bugs that I wanted to document here, in addition to the bug reports I’ve posted.
As part of yet-to-be-announced project, I’m working with Django. After only a couple days, I’ve been able to produce some pretty cool results. One of the requirements that I have is that a user be able to upload a bunch of files when editing a form. Using Django’s newforms package, I was able to quickly add the ability to upload 1 file, but I wanted the user to be able to upload as many as they wanted.
I released Version 0.7 of Zensor a couple days ago. It can be downloaded from WordPress.org.
