Customise layout of add news interface

Posted on 10 Feb 2010, 21:09:33

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Hi,

I was wondering if it is possible to customise the 'add news' admin page? eg. I would like to really simplify things for my clients by making a few changes to the layout:

• hide the WYSIWYG controls (the only ones I would like to show are the add image and add link icons)
• keep the 'short story' field permanently open
• remove 'toggle date' and 'toggle archive' checkboxes and 'comment' dropdown

Great script!
Thanks

#1841

Chris

Posted on 11 Feb 2010, 01:04:26

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Quote:

• hide the WYSIWYG controls (the only ones I would like to show are the add image and add link icons)

Edit functions.php, around line 1084~ you'll see the the wysiwyg controls, simply comment out the ones you don't want to show by placing a # character at the beginning of each line.

Quote:

• keep the 'short story' field permanently open

functions.php, around line 498, change $toggleshortstory = '0'; to $toggleshortstory = '1'; and the short story textbox will show by default.

Quote:

• remove 'toggle date' and 'toggle archive' checkboxes and 'comment' dropdown

functions.php, around line 1135~, change

Code:


echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td>";

to

Code:


echo "<tr style=\"display: none\"><td>&nbsp;</td><td>";

line 1147

change

Code:


echo "<tr><td>".$langmsg['newsform'][7]."</td><td>";

to

Code:


echo "<tr style=\"display: none\"><td>".$langmsg['newsform'][7]."</td><td>";

#1844

Matt960

Posted on 11 Feb 2010, 09:18:07

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All works perfectly!
Thank you, truly first class support.

#1845

Robye

Posted on 10 May 2010, 10:32:48

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Quote:

...around line 1084~ you'll see the the wysiwyg controls,...

i doesnt see any wysiwyg controls... where they are?

Quote:

• hide the WYSIWYG controls (the only ones I would like to show are the add image and add link icons)

Edit functions.php, around line 1084~ you'll see the the wysiwyg controls, simply comment out the ones you don't want to show by placing a # character at the beginning of each line.

Quote:

• keep the 'short story' field permanently open

functions.php, around line 498, change $toggleshortstory = '0'; to $toggleshortstory = '1'; and the short story textbox will show by default.

Quote:

• remove 'toggle date' and 'toggle archive' checkboxes and 'comment' dropdown

functions.php, around line 1135~, change

Code:


echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td>";

to

Code:


echo "<tr style=\"display: none\"><td>&nbsp;</td><td>";

line 1147

change

Code:


echo "<tr><td>".$langmsg['newsform'][7]."</td><td>";

to

Code:


echo "<tr style=\"display: none\"><td>".$langmsg['newsform'][7]."</td><td>";

#2279

Chris

Posted on 23 May 2010, 16:28:09

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Total Posts: 1395
Joined: 2006-05-19

In 3.5 some new options have been added to make it easier to change these default values.

See here

#2299