Admin panel

1.2 or 1.3 ?
Which options are the little people going to be left with ? And what level will they be at ? (as in user level)

1.3 I think – and I have just been playing with levels – maybe level 2.
Teachers could be at level 9 and perhaps designated children with a better understanding could have higher levels too.
The only trouble is, whatever you take out of quicktags for the kids, you also take out or everyone else.
I think it is going to be a very hacked admin panel when I am finished but that’s ok.
I could probably drop the trackbacks, custom fields, bookmarklets and dare I say it – the link to the support forums. It is going to be on an intranet so it needs nothing too glossy and just a simple layout that teachers and children can use. The kids should be ok – it’s the teachers using it that worries me ??

With quicktags, I don’t see why you couldn’t add info in admin-footer.php.
It’s just out of sight for those that know, but easily got at for those that need, and it’s not going to interfere with anything else.
For the quicktags, I think it’s around line 538 of admin-functions that “function the_quicktags () ” is defined, but I don’t know if emptying that function is better, or just finding where it is called and removing that.
Have you got a full test setup where you are hacking away ?

I hacked the admin section to add grins in 1.3 with:
if (function_exists(“wp_grins”)) { echo “
“; wp_grins(); }
echo ‘</div>’;
You could easily change it to check for user level and wrap it to include the quicktags call. Something like this might work:
global $user_level;
get_currentuserinfo();
if ( !strstr($_SERVER[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’], ‘Safari’) && $user_level > 8 ) :
(This, of course, is in 1.3)

Thanks Podz / Beel.
With a bit of luck I hope to have the server set up this week and then I can start getting WordPress into place.
I have a test blog Podz, however if I set it all up could I use it to transfer to the school intranet? At the moment I am just playing with the css and a few minor odds and ends.

I don’t see why not…you could always just copy over those files you have modified once it’s looking good.

Ok, I finally found some time to get moving with this school project. I have made a test site using 1.3a5 and it is ready to copy over to the school server. The css is all sorted out and a theme in place, but I am having a bit of trouble working out the admin side of things.
Does anyone know where I take out the trackback and bookmarklet sections so that they do not show in the admin panel?

Trackback.
edit-form.php
line 55 opens with a . I’d delete that whole bit.
Bookmarklet
post.php
line 671 a div begins with that in. You could empty the div ?
These be guesses as I can’t test what happens..

Thanks Podz
All exactly as you said and it is just how I want it now ??

Shadow, could you tell me what you are using this for? I am a teacher and when I read your post you sparked my interest.

Sure west4me,
I am also a teacher and I am making a new website intranet at school. The children and staff will be adding their additions across the network. I have had a html based website in place for some time but it has been a nightmare for me to maintain. No other members of staff have really helped out too much so now I think that the children’s work and school information can be shared via this method of using WP. No more need to copy and paste wads of text etc. They can do it on the hop…
It’s all experimental and it is taking me a bit of a time to set it up, but I think it will be worth it in the end…
Once I have things up and rolling I intend posting all the details on my education site if you want to keep up with it – or just contact me via email and we can go over the details that way….

Hi there, I am a teacher too and I’m curious to know how your school blog project is coming along? I am also interested in setting up blogs for my school so your experiences will be really helpful. Thanks!

p.s. I’d email you, but I can’t seem to figure out where emails are listed in this forum?

I found an article on blogging in schools as a means to get the students their homework, projects and learning to read… and the experiment was wildly successful… I don’t know if the article is still live where I found it, but here is a link to a copy of the article in my SEO easy blog

Thanks pt49, that’s a really great idea. I’m looking to setting up a blogging system for my students, so it must be reasonably simple to use and, most importantly, administer. I know that WordPress doesn’t yet have a working multi-blog installation, but it’s the most impressive I’ve seen so far (not to mention, the one I use for my own personal blog), so I’d like to try deploy WordPress if possible.