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So Obvious You Miss It!WordPress Tips
WordCamp Miami 2014
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See Me?Bet You Missed Me!
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Screen Options
Many WP dashboard screenshave their own
Screen Options button.
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We can checkmarkthe options we want to be visible
Screen Options let us changethe details we see
in the screen we are viewing
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Help!
Many dashboard screenshave their ownHelp buttons
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Click the Help Tabto reveal help for
the admin screen you are on.
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Organize the Dashboard
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Drag & Drop Panels
Put dashboard panel widgetswhere you need them.
Click & hold to move them around
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Collapsible Panel Widgets
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Look for the Arrows
See one of these
arrows on a panel
widget?
Click it to open or
close the widget the arrow is on
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Edit Faster
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Quick Edit
Post, page & other admin screenshave
‘Quick Edit’ options
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..disable comments, change publish dates, switch the author name.. and
more
Use Quick Edit to..
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Bulk Edit
Quick Edit’s Big Brother.Checkmark the box at the column head then
select a Bulk Action
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Find Faster
Search posts, pages and comments...
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Sortable Columns
Click the triangle in a column headerto sort rows
alphanumerically
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Filters
Filter by date and category.Different screens have different filters.
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To Edit or Not to Edit..
Some files should not be edited
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Never Edit WP Core Files
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Need to edit the core code?
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WordPress core files are overwritten when WP updates. File edits are lost.
Use a plugin, a child theme or add a code snippet in functions.php
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Create Child Themes
Use the Plugin: Child Theme Configurator
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3 Reasons to use Child Themes
Easy to make
We can edit the code
Template edits are safe whenthe parent theme updates
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Rename Plugins
When we customize a plugin,we rename the plugin & its folder
to protect against the original plugin’s update releases
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To rename a plugin..
Open the plugin’s main php file,change the “Plugin Name” and
rename the parent folder.
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When we rename a plugin,the old plugin & the new plugin
cannot usuallybe active at the same time..
..without the new plugin’sfunction names
being renamed first.
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Snippets of Code&
Functions.php
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Hooks and filtersare found in
core WP code,themes,
&some plugins.
Use action hooks & filters to....plug code into WordPress.
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When you write a code snippetlike the one below
that adds text to the footer..
vr_foot_text() {echo ‘<p>Some text</p>’;
}add_action(‘wp_footer’,’vr_foot_text’, 14)
..you canadd the snippet to functions.php
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Code snippets can beput into
the active theme’sfunctions.php file
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Look Before Leaping
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Read Changelogs When Updating
Plugins & Themes
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Changelogs tell us about..
new features,bug fixes,
plugin name changes,whether settings will be lost,
WP version compatibility,warn of product end of life (EOL),
& more
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We have learnedScreen OptionsThe Help Button
Drag’n’Drop PanelsCollapsable Widgets
Quick EditBulk Edit
Sortable ColumnsSearch Filters
Never Edit Core FilesUse Child Themes
Rename the Plugins We Customize
Use functions.php
Read Change Logs
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