http://rhymedcode.net Synergism of Art and Science Sat, 14 Jul 2007 23:49:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The following will be likely the last feature incorporated to Custom Write Panel before the plugin enters beta phase. In WordPress, a user could be assigned a role and, accordingly, that user will or will not have the capability to write a new Post. With this upcoming new feature, a custom write ... http://rhymedcode.net/planning/a-joint-venture-with-role-manager/ Several alpha versions have been released the past few days which include upgrade instructions. Generally, there are two ways to upgrade to higher version. The easiest would be to completely uninstall Custom Write Panel plugin, de-activate it, upload new package, and then re-activate the plugin. Complete uninstallation is performed by ... http://rhymedcode.net/testing/upgrading-alpha-versions/ Custom Write Panel version alpha is available below. Though unstable (I suppose, since it hasn't undergone many test cases), it should be safe to install it. The agreement is, when you download it, you'll be testing it for me. Thanks :). Significant enhancement requests most likely will be turned down, but ... http://rhymedcode.net/release/alpha-version-release/ Custom Write Panel lets users display (virtually) everything they want and hide (virtually) everything they don't want. And here's what you get when you display only what you want and hide only what you don't want. Want a clutter-free Write Post panel now? Head over to txfx.net where I stole the code ... http://rhymedcode.net/implementation/clutter-free-joins-the-party/ How is this Custom Write Panel plugin going to be better than the one at structuredblogging.org? http://rhymedcode.net/analysis-design/structured-blogging/ I was "that close" to an alpha release, I realized that I needed to create more tables to hold the parameters for custom field GUIs (size, cols, rows, etc). Gah! This "scope creep" will just never end. http://rhymedcode.net/implementation/just-when-i-thought/ Click the following button. And you get this screen. http://rhymedcode.net/implementation/are-we-there-yet-nope/ I was reading this article and, man, did I do the right thing with Custom Field GUI? I'm second guessing. No, I think it'll better if I put the label above each control, instead of currently to the left of the control and right-aligned. Imagine, currently, those controls would shift to ... http://rhymedcode.net/analysis-design/shoot-where-am-i-gonna-put-those-labels/ Users can write a Description for a custom write panel and for each custom fields associated with it. What do we do then with that information? Say we want to incorporate them on the interface on the new custom write panel. Where will, precisely, the Description for a custom write panel ... http://rhymedcode.net/analysis-design/what-to-do-with-description/ I'm bored. So here is the list of supported types of custom fields that can be associated for each custom write panel. Textbox Multiline Textbox Checkbox Checkbox List Radiobutton * Radiobutton List Dropdown List Listbox * Update: I stroke out Radiobutton from the list because, who wants a control with only one radio button? Such form control just doesn't ... http://rhymedcode.net/analysis-design/supported-custom-field-types/