I am totally in love with the Screen Options pull down tab in WordPress. I know it’s been there for a few versions, but I never fully appreciated it until I started using the Show on Screen feature that lets you fill in how many pages you want to show in your list of Pages. Some of our clients sites have hundreds of pages and posts, and this gives them the option to see all their posts or pages at once and not have to click next next next.

To use it, go into the Pages or the Posts Tab in your Dashboard, click on Screen Options in the top right corner of the screen, and set the number in Show on Screen to something high, like 200. This functionality really adds to the elegance and amazing usability of WordPress.

Depending on which plugins you have installed, you’ll have different options in your Screen Options Panel. For example, we have Yoast’s SEO Plugin installed, so we can check or uncheck the checkboxes to show the plugin-related options in our Post/Page editing areas.

Here is a screenshot of how the Screen Options panel looks in WordPress.

This post was originally published at QuickTip: Show More Pages in your WordPress Dashboard on WP Garage - WP Garage - wordpress tricks, hacks, and tips.

While working on one of our sites, I noticed funny code starting to show up in the WYSIWYG editor area. I’m not sure if it actually messed anything up, but it was really annoying:

<input id=”gwProxy” type=”hidden” /> <input id=”jsProxy” onclick=”jsCall();” type=”hidden” />

I found one article online that said it was an FCK / wysiwyg editor problem so I thought maybe the issue was related to my beloved CMS friend,  Custom Field Template plugin, that I have installed (and love… swoon.. too much?).

However, I was relieved to find this article which said that the problem (freakishly enough) is the Firefox Highlighter addon which was adding the code into the WordPress WYSIWYG editor. So, I removed the Highlighter addon and that seemed to solve the problem. It didn’t remove previous instances of the weird code so I had to delete them manually.

I tried using the FCK fix plugin, hoping that it would remove previous instances of the weird code that were in the site, but it didn’t, so I deleted the plugin.

This post was originally published at How to avoid “gwProxy” or “jsproxy” code in WordPress on WP Garage - WP Garage - wordpress tricks, hacks, and tips.

The Problem:

Recently, one of our clients wanted to change the slug, or permalink, from “about-2″, back to just plain ol’ “about”.  I tried changing the slug from the “quick edit” mode. I tried to Edit the Permalink from the Post Page. No luck, it kept reverting back to about-2.  After doing a few searches, I noticed that others had experienced this problem as well.

The Solution:

So, I finally found this post on the WordPress support forum which suggested I check the Trash folder. Sure enough, I found a page called “About” hanging out in the Trash. Once I permanently deleted the page from the Trash, I was able to save the permalink successfully.

This post was originally published at How to Override the Slug or Page Permalink in WordPress on WP Garage - WP Garage - wordpress tricks, hacks, and tips.

Ryan Hellyer just pointed out that the comments feed here at WordPress Garage was not working, and apparently hasn’t been working since the end of April. I wonder if it had to do with upgrading to 2.5…

In any case, I’ve fixed the problem and it’s working now, so you can subscribe to it if you like at http://feeds.feedburner.com/WordpressgarageComments.

Thanks as always for reading!

This post was originally published at WordPress Garage comments feed fixed on WP Garage - WP Garage - wordpress tricks, hacks, and tips.

Hi all – I was wondering if one of you can help us find a solution to a feature we would like to add to a WordPress site:

The site in question has multiple contributors. Most are dedicated to certain categories. We would like to automatically display on a category page only the authors who have written articles in that particular category.

For example, let’s say we have a category called “Cucumbers” and a category called “Tomatoes.” When someone clicks on the Cucumbers category we would like only the authors who have written posts categorized as Cucumber posts to appear, and on the Tomatoes category page, we would like only the authors who have written Tomato category posts to appear. There may be some overlap between the pages, since some authors may write posts for both the Cucumber and the Tomato categories.

One solution we thought of is to call the category we want and the number of posts from that category and then display the list of authors. The problem is it shows duplicate authors. Here’s the code:

<?php query_posts('showposts=20&cat=3'); ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

<?php the_author_posts_link (); ?>

<div style="clear:both"></div>
<?php endwhile;?>

Is there a way to prevent duplicate authors from appearing? Or is there a better way?

Thanks in advance for your help.

This post was originally published at Challenge: how to display only authors who have written in a specific category? on WP Garage - WP Garage - wordpress tricks, hacks, and tips.

Ryan on the WordPress development blog (which is running on Prologue, very nicely I might add) has basically congratulated the “Farsi and Hebrew translation folks” for their hard work making the WordPress admin look good in right-to-left languages.

I’d like to take this opportunity to say that the Hebrew version of WordPress exists mostly, of not completely,  thanks to Ran Hartstein. Ran always makes sure the Hebrew speaking audience gets their Hebrew version of WordPress as quickly as possible. Of course, the extended Israeli WordPress community adds a lot of value to the usage of WordPress, with many right-to-left themes, plugins, and the vibrant and helpful wpheb google group.

This post was originally published at Ryan at WordPress mentions Farsi and Hebrew developers for their work on WP admin on WP Garage - WP Garage - wordpress tricks, hacks, and tips.

Security Focus has reported a security problem with the Search Unleashed plugin. The plugin stores search queries, but does not validate stored data and sends it back “raw” to the browser.

Read more at SecurityFocus

This post was originally published at Security problem with Search Unleashed plugin on WP Garage - WP Garage - wordpress tricks, hacks, and tips.

I recently wrote about a plugin that made the WordPress admin more accessible from an iPhone. Now there’s the iWPhone plugin/theme package that “automatically reformats your blog’s content for optimized viewing on Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch. It detects the iPhone/iPod touch’s User Agent and serves up the content with the special theme only to iPhone and iPod touch visitors, all other browsers will view your WordPress blog with your current theme.”

iWPhone WordPress Plugin and Theme

This post was originally published at Make your WordPress theme iPhone friendly with iWPhone WordPress plugin and theme on WP Garage - WP Garage - wordpress tricks, hacks, and tips.

Updated Feb. 14, 2008

Deziner Folio has a really useful step-by-step guide to taking your XHTML/CSS layout and converting it to a WordPress theme. They say this whole process can be completed in 30-40 minutes!

Developing a WordPress Theme

Another option is DevBox’s Wireframe WordPress theme, which is available for download on their site. This is basically a barebones theme that you can use to easily take a XHTML/CSS layout and convert it into a WordPress theme.

Test Theme Wireframe WordPress Theme

This post was originally published at Guide to converting your XHTML CSS layout to a WordPress theme on WP Garage - WP Garage - wordpress tricks, hacks, and tips.

Secunia has reported an “id” SQL injection vulnerability in the WordSpew plugin for WordPress. Here’s the description of the vulnerability:

DESCRIPTION: S@BUN has reported a vulnerability in the Wordspew plugin for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.

Input passed to the parameter “id” in wordspew-rss.php is not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.

Read more about the vulnerability here.

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