{"id":438,"date":"2014-01-20T20:11:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T05:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jayjennings.com\/?p=438"},"modified":"2014-01-20T20:11:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T05:11:26","slug":"wp-admin-notes-quick-bit-of-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayjennings.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/20\/wp-admin-notes-quick-bit-of-code\/","title":{"rendered":"WP Admin Notes – Quick Bit of Code"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just added a feature to one of my sites that allows me to write a “note to the admin” (me) that doesn’t show up on the site. Here’s a look at one of the widgets in my admin area:<\/p>\n

\"Wp<\/p>\n

I really don’t want a title for that widget, but I also don’t want to have to open every text widget to remember what it is (many of my text widgets are without titles). By creating that shortcode I can surround any bits of text that is a note to myself, but it won’t appear on the site.<\/p>\n

Creating a shortcode is really easy — and this one was especially easy because nothing is really happening. WP passes me the text that’s surrounded by the shortcode and I don’t do anything with it — just pass WP back an empty string.<\/p>\n

I put this code inside the functions.php of my current theme:<\/p>\n

\nfunction trr_note( $atts, $content = null ) {\n\treturn '';\n}\nadd_shortcode( 'trr_note', 'trr_note' );\n<\/pre>\n
Because of the way shortcodes work I can also call it like this:<\/p>\n
\n[trr_note foo=\"This is my note for my eyes only!\"]\n<\/pre>\n
The variable named foo can be named anything — since I’m doing nothing with that it doesn’t matter what it’s called.<\/p>\n
The only other thing I had to do was tell WP to process shortcodes inside widget titles and text — apparently that’s not standard (which seems weird to me). I added these lines of code to the functions.php file:<\/p>\n
\nadd_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');\nadd_filter('widget_title', 'do_shortcode');\n<\/pre>\n
It’s not rocket science, but it makes my admin duties easier since I can tell at a glance what specific widgets are for. I can also use it to “comment out” text on pages that I want to save for later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I just added a feature to one of my sites that allows me to write a “note to the admin” (me) that doesn’t show up on the site. Here’s a look at one of the widgets in my admin area: I really don’t want a title for that widget, but I also don’t want to have to open every text … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","tag-wordpress","no-post-thumbnail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayjennings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayjennings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayjennings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayjennings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayjennings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jayjennings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayjennings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayjennings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayjennings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}