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Classic Editor

Well, that was easy. The Classic Editor plugin restores the old editor, with all my custom buttons. And installing it with the command line interface was just wp plugin install classic-editor

2020 08 19 Danny Comments (0)

Updating WordPress with the command line

Nearlyfreespeech.net has been great, but their security settings make it hard to update WordPress automatically. I just discovered that WP now has a command line interface that works fine over SSH. wp core update wp core update-dp And done!. You can do wp db export to back up the database first. And updating plugins (for […]

2020 08 19 Danny Uncategorized Comments (0)

Amazon Wish List Hack on github

I've put an Amazon Wishlist Widget for WordPress on my github site, that uses the techniques described before. You can see it running on the sidebar here.

2016 04 06 Danny Comments (0)

Hacking My Way Again to an Amazon Wishlist Widget

Amazon long ago elminated its API for getting wishlists. 4 years ago I made a screen-scraping WordPress widget to display my wishlist. Unfortunately, as happens with screen-scraping, Amazon changed their format and URL's. And now I can't seem to get the ItemLookup API to work either. doitlikejustin has a vanilla PHP wishlist scraper, but PHP […]

2016 04 05 Danny Comments (2)

Custom Buttons in the WordPress HTML Editor

I use the WordPress HTML editor exclusively, with the Text Control plugin with no formatting, so the posts contain exactly the markup I want. The editor comes with "Quick Tag" buttons, that let you insert HTML tags with one click, and allows you to add custom buttons. So, for all my code samples, I want […]
2012 08 20 Danny Javascript
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Contextual Search Results in WordPress

Michael Tyson had a cool idea: instead of the search results page showing an excerpt of the first words of the post, show an excerpt that contains the search terms and highlight them (say, by making them bold). I thought his method was too complex—it requires replacing your theme's search.php with a custom page, and […]
2012 08 01 Danny PHP Comments (2)