The Enhanced Views Plugin

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR WORDPRESS 2.0 USERS: This plugin doesn’t work under WordPress 2.0. I honestly do not know that it ever will, but I won’t say “never.” As you can tell, I haven’t upgraded to 2.0 myself. When and if that happens and I reach the same point of frustration with the limitations of the post viewing interface in that version, I may have the impetus to update it. Sorry for any inconvenience.

New functionality

At long last, it’s finally ready for an initial release. Announcing the Enhanced Views plugin for WordPress. This plugin replaces the original Posts functionality in the WordPress administration interface with a new version that include increased functionality, including:

If you want it, go get it.

March 29, 2005 • Posted in: Plugins

129 Comments

  • bearded says:

    Will you please give some tips for a little modification in Enhanced View. It is nice the Month wise selection, but I need date wise. Can suggest some additional code in your script?

  • robs says:

    This plugin change the page wp-admin/edit.php; it insert in the layout some new functionality (show category , etc…).

    But it replace all the file or insert in the original file this new functionality?

    For example if I want only remove the original functionality ‘Show Month’ what is the minimal code for to do this?

    This because I want in the menu Write>Post (post.php) remove some functionality in the right box; I want to have only 2 links; thanks

  • ColdForged says:

    stilgar said: Hi, thanks for this great plugin. I made some small changes to it to make it work with WordPress 2.0. If you want I can send it to you, or I can put it on my site if you don’t want to maintain it, but I’d prefer to have your permission first.

    That’s excellent, stilgar. Feel free to host it. If you want to post back with a link, I’ll link to it in this post.

  • simon b says:

    hi

    i too am very keen for this plug-in to run on wp2.0, as i have a blog with about 250 posts in 12 categories, so this would make life so much easier!

    maybe stilgar’s version could be offered alongside your original one?

    cheers simon

  • stilgar says:

    Hi, thanks for this great plugin. I made some small changes to it to make it work with WordPress 2.0. If you want I can send it to you, or I can put it on my site if you don’t want to maintain it, but I’d prefer to have your permission first.

    C’ya, stilgar

  • ColdForged says:

    Elisabeth said: is there going to be a version of enhaced views for wp 2.0?

    Kevin said: But just upgraded to, and doesn’t seem to work with, WP 2.0.

    Not in the foreseeable future, unfortunately. Never say never, but I have no plans to diddle with WP 2.0 at this point.

  • Kevin says:

    Love the enhanced view plugin. But just upgraded to, and doesn’t seem to work with, WP 2.0.

    Any suggestions? Thanks KAM

  • Elisabeth says:

    is there going to be a version of enhaced views for wp 2.0?

  • ColdForged says:

    ovidiu said: I have been using your plugin for quite a while, now trying to get wpmu up and running, I realized your plugin won’t work with wordpressmu.

    any chance to get it working?

    Likely not as I don’t work in wpmu. You could certainly see if someone in the wpmu support forums felt like giving it a shot.

  • ovidiu says:

    Hello,

    I have been using your plugin for quite a while, now trying to get wpmu up and running, I realized your plugin won’t work with wordpressmu.

    any chance to get it working?

    regards Ovidiu

  • J.T. Grimes says:

    Thanks for this — it’s amazingly super awesome and is just what I needed. I was about to write a new edit page which restricts on category, but now I don’t have to.

  • ColdForged says:

    brrt said: Will you make this working for the “pages” too?

    Please see this comment.

  • brrt says:

    thanks for this plug-in. Will you make this working for the “pages” too? Except only the posts. I happen to have 400+ pages, and way less posts…

  • onat says:

    Great plugin! Uploaded, activated and works like a charm. Now it’s easier to edit posts of the same category.

    Thank you.

  • ColdForged says:

    Gamma said: ColdForged, do you know if there is any drawback to setting the memory limit that high? If not why do they set it so low by default?

    Not really, especially not to support the management interface which is used sparingly in relation to your actual blog hits. As soon as the page is done rendering that memory is released anyway, so it’s not like you’re taking up massive server resources and holding them indefinitely either.

    In terms of why it’s set low, I guess it’s set to account for the majority of uses. If you have a high memory limit with, for instance, a rampant, poorly programmed script that does a lot of recursion or something it will take longer for it to run its course than if it ran out of memory quicker.

    That’s the first time I’ve seen a memory problem in that management interface. I basically modified the plugin to free some resources a bit sooner rather than the previous method. Since you still had to bump up the memory allocation I assume WordPress is using quite a bit of memory leaving not a whole lot for my use by the time my plugin runs, but at least it helped you some. Glad you got it running.

  • Gamma says:

    ColdForged, do you know if there is any drawback to setting the memory limit that high? If not why do they set it so low by default?

    The plugin is working great. I was really surprised that the edit by categories function was missing in 1.5, glad to have it back.

  • Gamma says:

    Version 4 looks like it is working but I had to change that line in the config file to (@iniset(”memorylimit”,’16M’);) before it would.

  • Gamma says:

    Very cool, thanks I’ll give it a shot. Yeah I had a similar error message when I first upgraded to 1.5. I finally found some help that involved adding a line (@iniset(“memorylimit”,’12M’);)to the config file that increased the memory limit. And yes my blog is huge.

  • ColdForged says:

    New version, Version 0.4, has been released. Give it a shot and see if it helps with your memory limitations.

  • ColdForged says:

    Gamma said: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 12582912 bytes exhausted

    Is this for the photo blog that you have as your author URL here? If so, I have a feeling that the problem is that you have a large number of categories and the plugin is simply running out of PHP memory trying to construct the category dropdown. Let me see what I can do to free up some memory. I might have to release a new version for you.

  • Gamma says:

    The ‘manage’ page does not change, except that this error message appears on the bottom of the page about ten seconds after the page loads. Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 12582912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 35 bytes) in /home/httpd/vhosts/wrybread.com/httpdocs/gammablog/wp-includes/functions.php on line 1116

    Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 12582912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 21 bytes) in Unknown on line 0

  • William says:

    Cool. It works great with the fix !

  • ColdForged says:

    clint said: hmm the plugin file still says version 0.2 is it actually 0.3?

    Interesting, both the zipfile and tarball have the 0.3 version. Where’d you download from?

  • clint says:

    hmm the plugin file still says version 0.2 is it actually 0.3?

  • Nathan says:

    Fixed! Thank you.

  • ColdForged says:

    Snag it guys.

  • Nathan says:

    LOL. Quick work! …when do I get the bill? :p

  • ColdForged says:

    Nathan said: Ah! Yes, it does. That’s unfortunate — is there a work around other than removing the apostrophe?

    Absolutely… wait a few minutes for the release I’m about to stick up there :) . Thanks for the feedback!

  • ColdForged says:

    dherren said: I take it back…it’s not actually working in Opera

    Hmm. I downloaded Opera and it appears to be working for me. I was going to investigate getting it working for Opera before the next release, but I don’t see an issue. Well, the titles above the columns aren’t displaying perfectly, but I don’t know that I have the patience to deal with it :) .

  • Nathan says:

    Ah! Yes, it does. That’s unfortunate — is there a work around other than removing the apostrophe?

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