Comments on: Aftermath of my WordPress Plugin Development book

By: Vladimir

Vladimir

Hi Michael

Thanks for the kind comment, really appreciate it. Glad you enjoy the book, I use it every day in my work as a reference too !

By: Michael Pedzotti

Michael Pedzotti

Vladimir, the book is marvelous and I have been reading it back and forward (like a true reference book should be) since I bought it on 1st Aug this year. Thanks for contributing and sharing your wealth of knowledge with the rest of the WP plugin dev community. It is appreciated. Michael.

By: Vladimir

Vladimir

It was stressful, yep it was. Can't say no to that offer though ;)

By: Dave

Dave

Ahhh Vlad !! You have a short memory my friend... :) can you not remember the stress the first book put you under lol ...... Its ok thou , you can just come over to London and have a beer with me in that pub again..

By: Caio Costa

Caio Costa

Do you ship to Brazil? :P
Just kidding... Sure thing this book is amazing.

By: Vladimir

Vladimir

SEO, of course :)

By: Vladimir

Vladimir

Do you want to translate? ;) Just kidding, I think it wouldn't be monetary feasible.

By: Djordje

Djordje

I like to read this book in serbian :- )
Any chances for that to happened?

By: Ivan | SEO Consultant

Ivan | SEO Consultant

So what is the next one going to be about?

By: Mitriy

Mitriy

Nice work Vlad. Do it so easy.

By: Leticia

Leticia

Thanks, I like your book and help me very much.

BTW, I have the same problem of David F. Carr, any tip or help will be appreciated. The documentation about the the_editor function and the necessary code to use it is deficient.

By: Will

Will

Vladimir, I have to say that your book's really helped me take working with WP to a new level.
I've been using WP on and off since v2 came out, and have always done ok with it, using other plugins to do almost, but not quite, what I want with my blogs.
Since reading your book and putting some of the stuff I've learned into action, I'm now doing *exactly* what I want with my blogs. Thank you.

By: Vladimir

Vladimir

Thanks Rees, I am happy if it made your hospital stay a bit more pleasant.

By: Strangely Perfect

Strangely Perfect

It's great Vladimir! I got it to read in bed when I was ill and hospitalised for a fortnight. Sadly, I've yet to plunge deeply into php work, but I think you've done a good job within the limited space of "creating one complete reference to WordPress plugin development" as you said you'd attempted to do. All your examples are fully functioning and the walk-through's of the code and hooks is excellent. Rees

By: David F. Carr

David F. Carr

I thoroughly enjoyed the book and found it very useful. I actively use the Insights plug-in described in the book and have even added a few of my own modifications, and I was developing my own new plug-ins within weeks (although nothing so generally useful as to be published for public consumption).

I do have one request. You give a good explanation of how to add custom administration screens and post templates. But I've run into roadblocks trying to create a custom admin screen that incorporates the tinymce rich text editor. I've actually got it working, but only sort of. The command

the_editor('default content here');

creates a text area and adds the TinyMCE buttons including alternate Visual / HTML tabs for manipulating the content. But it also adds the row of upload/insert buttons for adding images and media without properly enabling those buttons. The issue seems to be something to do with the CSS styling and positioning of the dialogs that are supposed to be displayed when these icons are clicked because I see them turning up at the bottom of the page, mis-aligned off the left margin. Possibly I don't have the RTE text area nested in the DIVs tinymce is expecting to find on the post and page editing admin pages.

Have you ever gotten this to work?

I have not been able to find a good tutorial on how to do this properly, and the "the_editor" function is not well documented on the WordPress Codex. I suspect if you can demonstrate a good solution, it will be a popular entry on your blog.