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That’s a pretty nice looking site Ennis

No problem, I’m glad you found it useful ??

Do you use mod_rewrite and permalinks?

I do and had to regenerate the .htaccess file after updating to 1.5.1

Writing a custom post page is probably the way to go.

It’s actually fairly easy to write a from-scratch “post form” (see my plugin https://cjbehm.dyndns.org/wingingit/quick-post/ for an example). Your post form can call the wp-admin/post.php page with appropriately named fields and it will do the right thing.

Plus, if you add a hook into the publish_post function, you can redirect back to wherever you want (such as the REFERER page, which is what I do).

Is your version of PHP using the mysqli library? If it is not, and you are using MySQL 4.1, then you can’t authenticate from PHP scripts.

Your choices are to either downgrade MySQL to 4.0 or to recompile PHP and tell it to use mysqli instead of mysql.

That was the situation here, when I did a complete reinstall of my system and decided that I wanted MySQL 4.1 for sub-selects. I’m back with 4.0 now though.

Hi bpuppy, did you install the MySQL 4.1 distribution from MySQL.com? If so, the problem is that the version of PHP distributed with Mac OS 10.4 doesn’t use the mysqli library, which means that you can’t authenticate against a MySQL version 4.1 installation.

You can either go about upgrading PHP, or downgrading MySQL to version 4.0. Personally I went with 4.0 because it was a whole lot easier.

If you didn’t install MySQL 4.1, then I’m not sure where to point you. That was the problem I had though.

Minor bug-fix for 1.3, please see the plugin page for details and the update.

BTW: small world, I checked out your blog and saw the story about the police officer & Mercer — I used to live in New Wilmington (now in DC).

Hrmm… that sounds strange ??

My bookmarklet opens to the post page, but I had to regenerate it after the update to 1.5 because it had been opening the Dashbord. Do you use the Apache mod_rewrite (or the IIS) equivalent for your site?

Take a look at my Dashboard Options plugin. I’ve just released version 1.3. While it doesn’t automatically add the features you just mentioned, it can let you do a good bit of customization to the Dashboard.

Download and installation instructions at: https://cjbehm.dyndns.org/wingingit/dashboard-options/

The extension probably links to https://your-blog-address/wp-admin/ but should (as of 1.5) now link to https://your-blog-address/wp-admin/post.php

HTH

Dashboard Options version 1.3 is out and adds a few new features, including the ability to display a custom message in the Dashboard, use the custom message as PHP and include your own RSS feeds.

Download and installation instructions at: https://cjbehm.dyndns.org/wingingit/dashboard-options/

scotto15, the instructions are for editing wp-admin/index.php in version 1.5. The plugin wouldn’t work in 1.1 as far as I know.

Speaking of enhancing the Dashboard…

If you want, take a look at https://cjbehm.dyndns.org/wingingit/dashboard-options/ — the plugin download and instructions are both there.

It provides a way to disable the three RSS feeds and put in your own custom message text. I’m toying with the idea of adding another set of options for putting in your own RSS feeds. It shouldn’t be too much more work than what’s already been done.

If you haven’t already customized your wp-admin/index.php file, then you can just replace it with the included index.php and put dashboard_opts.php in the plugins folder. Otherwise, the directions on the page describe the edits required for the plugin to work.

For those interested, I updated the Dashboard plugin I mentioned above. It can disable the 3rd RSS feed that I didn’t see the first time (for Technorati) and allows you to set a custom message to display on the Dashboard.

https://cjbehm.dyndns.org/wingingit/dashboard-options/ for the plugin and instructions.