Comments on: Change Quick Action Button in Admin

By: Sandy

Sandy — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:25:54 +0000

Whether or not I would use this particular thing, it’s still interesting and helps me learn more about wordpress, so thanks.

My question for you, prompted by your tip here, is this: can I make My Favorites *always* have a link to the stylesheet so I can whip over and edit it? When I’m setting up a new site, I’m editing this file all the time! But it’s hard to get to, since I work on a small laptop and the file is at the veeeerrrrry bottom of the Editor page. Every time I open my Editor (under Appearance), I have to scroll, scroll, scroll past files I never open, to see the stylesheets at the very bottom.

I suppose I should just work in a code editor like everyone else, but I wish I could just stick it into the My Favorites dropdown like you’re doing here with New Page. Easy or hard to do that?

It’s okay if this is too far afield to answer here. Just wondering if it’s something a person with very rudimentary php knowledge should try at home or if it’ll bork my whole core. Well, not *my* whole core, but my site’s whole core. :)

By: arslion

arslion — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:43:08 +0000

I really need this thankss…many thanks .

By: Chris Coyier

Chris Coyier — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:02:27 +0000

‘Cause I didn’t know how to do that. I’m a noob when it comes to this plugin/functions/filtering stuff, although I’m getting the hang of it better. Thanks for the idea, looks like it will need a little editing to replicate exactly my scenario.

By: weston

weston — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:37:33 +0000

why edit core files when you can put it into your functions.php file

function my_favorite_action( $actions ) {

$actions[ wp_nonce_url( 'edit-comments.php', 'wp-cache' ) ] = array( __( ‘Manage Comments’ ), ‘manage_options’ );

return $actions;
}
add_filter( ‘favorite_actions’, ‘my_favorite_action’ );

By: Chris Coyier

Chris Coyier — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:05:26 +0000

Nothing really. It’s fairly trivial. But in my own link-clicking muscle memory it trips me up fairly often. And since the “Write Post” and “Write Page” screens are visually nearly identical, it can often have consequences. Let’s say I was creating some test pages for something on this website. I created a new page, published it, wanted to create another one, hit the button, typed in some totally fake content like “blah blah stupid fake content” and published that. Oh no! That was really a post. Well too late, it’s already out on the RSS feed and I look like an idiot.

I see this as kind of a “mistake” based on the behavior of how that quick action button works elsewhere, so might as well fix it.

By: Darfuria

Darfuria — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:58:24 +0000

I’m not really sure I see the point in this – as you can just click ‘New Page’ over on the left anyway… I’m sure it has its use for a few people, but what’s the difference, for most of us, between clicking a link at the top, or a link on the left?