Friday, September 16, 2016

Extend the Quick Edit Actions in the WordPress Dashboard

The inbuilt ‘Quick Edit’ feature in the administration screens in WordPress gives you a simple and quick way to change the content of your posts, without the need to jump into the full post editor.

By default WordPress includes several fields to speed up your editing process, such as the title, slug, taxonomies and metadata like the publish date and post status selectors. However if you’ve extended your post types then you’ll find you can’t change these values here. That’s what we’re going to look at now.

quick edit header

Creating a Plugin for Our Functionality

It’s good practice to create plugins when we’re modifying functionality (you can find a guide for beginners if you're just starting out with plugin development). Start by creating a class that will act as our plugins entry point. There are several moving parts to get this up and running, so start with a basic structure.

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by Simon Codrington via SitePoint

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