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Admin Plugin Request: Power Editing in Article Tab.
Obviously, this is something that could benefit the entire community. Imagine, if you would, having a ton of different articles that didn’t previously have categories. Now, imagine having to go through each and every article, to add categories, change sections, or article status and you can see how tedious it can/could be.
So, why not a plugin to add the ability to power edit/batch edit articles?
Feature ideas:- The ability to add/change categories, sections, article status in batch mode.
- The ability to change article times.
- Author Changes, in the event one author leaves, etc.
- Ability to organize by Category, Section, Author, etc (Articles works like this currently.)
I personally would be eternally greatful to anyone that would be willing to pick this up, and add this functionallity to TXP. Being a designer and not a programmer hampers my ability to do these things, sadly.
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#2 2005-04-17 18:54:21
- cziggurat
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- Registered: 2004-12-17
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Re: Admin Plugin Request: Power Editing in Article Tab.
As things are, you’re looking at a mod, not a plugin.
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Re: Admin Plugin Request: Power Editing in Article Tab.
could this not be an admin extension(plugin)?
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Re: Admin Plugin Request: Power Editing in Article Tab.
I think it more than likely could be. Since you can do things to resize the textboxes, like wilshire’s shown, I’m sure you could probably do it within the admin tab, rather than completely reworking the admin page. But, I don’t know much about how it could happen.
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#5 2005-04-18 00:40:25
- Mary
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- Registered: 2004-06-27
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Re: Admin Plugin Request: Power Editing in Article Tab.
It’s not a matter of simply adding a few buttons. Manipulating the page with JavaScript won’t be enough, you have to alter and add to the actual PHP code itself. Which, while you could possibly do with a plugin if you got real imaginative, would be better to modify the script and send it into the devs as a patch to be rolled into the release instead.
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Re: Admin Plugin Request: Power Editing in Article Tab.
Something like this is definitely doable within a plugin. Now mind you, I’m not volunteering to do, just saying….
The approach I would take on this would be to add a whole new tab just for batch editing rather than trying to modify the existing article listing or write tab. As more admin plugins come to be too much DOM scripting on the same pages with start to cause plugins to clash.
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