Hiding information from the WordPress admin

So, while I was working on my Back End Instructions plugin yesterday, I was talking to my husband about the client I had built it for. As a quick notation, it’s a group of women who are of a certain age (no offense to anyone – I’m getting there myself!) and who do not like change. It’s taken me almost three years of pulling teeth to get things to where they are now. They want...

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New Plugin: Back End Instructions

Well hello there! I’m all excited. I think I’ve mentioned before (although for the life of me I can’t find reference to it) that I wrote a quick plugin once to provide back end instructions for clients. It was using the Userextra/Usermeta plugins, and I edited/added text right in the plugin area to pull up the right stuff, so it wasn’t easily managed. It worked (and was a “quick fix”) – but I wanted it...

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Custom Write Panels for WordPress 3.0

As promised (from earlier today) I’m going to supply a small tutorial. Over the last few weeks, I’ve actually been bombed with requests on how to do this, and I’ve been happily passing out my code to anyone who’s asked for it. (I think it’s because of this comment I left on Liam McKay’s site. I guess it piqued a lot of interest.) I will also say that, earlier today, I mentioned that the tuorial...

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WordPress 3.0 – it’s official!

WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious” was officially released yesterday. Now, I posted before about the cool new features of WP 3.0. I’ve been using it since the Alpha, and I’ve been very impressed. I’ve been getting a ot of questions in my inbox, as well as on Twitter, about how it’s going. A lot of people out there are pretty wary of immediately upgrading to a new version of WordPress, and typically wait until at least the...

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