A complete guide to using Thickbox in the WordPress admin, despite the ingenious traps laid by the developers of the media manager and Thickbox itself. With this guide in hand, you too can shout out ‘Spaaaartaaaaa’ and kick bad code into a big-ass hole in the ground.
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While WordPress ships with jQuery, it’s often a few updates behind the latest version. Since jQuery 1.4 is just out, I wanted to use it with K2. That in and of itself is fairly easy, and a simply matter of deregistering the ‘jquery’ script and registering a new one. While looking for a proper solution I came across this rather crude way of going about it quite a lot, and it’s a horribly way of going about this, and will (and has probably) undoubtedly result in old plugins and themes blindly overwriting newer version of jQuery with their own, once new hotness, now old and busted version of jQuery.
Ugh.
This PHP code snippet checks to see if the passed version is later than the one currently registered, and makes sure we’re not in the admin (just to be sure).
If our version is indeed newer than the one currently registered, we go ahead and grab the idol… eh, swap jQuery’s.
/**
* Register a later version of jQuery if it’s later than the one currently in WordPress
*
* @param {String} our_version The version of jQuery we want to upgrade to if needed.
*/
function upgrade_jquery( our_version ) {
// We want to use the latest version of jQuery, but it may break something in
// the admin, so we only load it on the actual site.
global $wp_scripts;
if ( ( version_compare(our_version, $wp_scripts -> registered[jquery] -> ver) == 1 ) && !is_admin() ) :
wp_deregister_script(‘jquery’);
wp_register_script(‘jquery’,
get_bloginfo(‘template_directory’) . ‘/js/jquery.js’,
false, our_version);
endif;
}
add_action( ‘wp_head’, upgrade_jquery( ’1.4.1’ ) );
It sure would be neat if this was built straight into WordPress’ wp_register_script.
Having drawn on Brian’s PHP expertice, Dunstan’s Time Since plugin, which I adapted for WordPress a little while ago, is now finally 1.0 (having been beta until now).
Using ancient formulas, the scales of a dragon, spit of a toad and a single hair from the head of Margaret Thatcher – yeah, not really – I have succeeded in concocting a search-as-you-type. For all you Mac-whores out there, it’s sort of like Quicksilver / Spotlight ‘lite’.
Try it out. Type for instance ‘kubrick’ into the search form, and wait a second. There, a list should roll down and show you the last 20 entries with the word Kubrick in them. Now use arrow up and down to navigate and enter to select an entry.
Ehm… Now press the back button… Hello?… Come back!