The last time we saw the Enhanced View Plugin I mentioned that I had changed direction and was trying to get back to the functionality I had. Though with all the stuff going on I haven’t had a ton of time to work on the plugin, I have made some progress over some late nights. So, here’s where we stand now.

• The Posts functionality is done. You can see a screenshot of the current goods above (click for a larger version). Note that I’m now taking over the “Posts” functionality like I did for comments. A few new things are there from last time, notably the “Author” dropdown and the availability of changing the ordering. Unfortunately I can only order by date, title, and author when I take over the “Posts” menu just because of the limitations of doing it that way: it uses the standard WP posts queries and those are the only fields you can technically order by. I thought I could circumvent that to allow ordering by post ID through judicious use of filters on the query strings, but the one thing that’s hardcoded is the ORDER BY MySQL parameter… it has to be a field with a name that starts with “post_”, and the post ID is simply called “ID”. Oh well.
• I’ve only just begun on the “Pages” functionality, but it should be an easier task since I don’t have to jump through all the goofy Javascript hoops and I can make it do whatever I want. So, expect full control over order in that one.
• I said that I hoped that I could roll a new version of the Paged Comment Editing plugin into this plugin for a glorious trifecta of paged editing goodness. After much gnashing of teeth and cursing it ain’t going to happen. The plugin architecture as it stands cannot support a single plugin owning more than one submenu of any menu. It works for “Posts” and “Pages” because they’re handled fundamentally differently, but trying to also get “Comments” taken over is a frank impossibility.

I think — barring any additional pains with my daughter — that I should be able to get this thing out this week.

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