apt-get install WP

Finally I also upgraded my blog to Wordpress@3.0.4, eliminating a critical bug.

Rumpel frequently reminded me to do that, but I was too lazy to find my own modifications to the WP core… But today I did! And thinking ahead, here I record what I’m changing to this version! Majorly for me, but maybe you like it ;-)

Display whole tag cloud in wp-admin

When you create an article WP by default only displays the 45 most-used tags in the sidebar. I want to see all of them:

File to change: wp-admin/includes/meta-boxes.php

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< <p class="hide-if-no-js"><a href="#titlediv" class="tagcloud-link" id="link-<?php echo $tax_name; ?>"><?php echo $taxonomy->labels->all_items; ?></a></p>
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> <p class="hide-if-no-js"><a href="#titlediv" class="tagcloud-link" id="link-<?php echo $tax_name; ?>"><?php echo $taxonomy->labels->choose_from_most_used; ?></a></p>

File to change: wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

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<       $tags = get_terms( $taxonomy, array( 'number' => 999, 'orderby' => 'count', 'order' => 'DESC' ) );
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>       $tags = get_terms( $taxonomy, array( 'number' => 45, 'orderby' => 'count', 'order' => 'DESC' ) );

Remove http:// from JavaScript prompts

If I want to insert a link into an article I often use the button above the textarea. It’s very friendly from WP to remind the users to start links with http:// , but for me it’s only disgusting because I usually copy&paste the URL from the browsers address bar and have to delete the http:// from the pop-up… To delete them permanently edit wp-includes/js/quicktags.js . Unfortunately this script is just one line, so a diff won’t help you, but I can give you a vim substitution command:

s/"http:\\/\\/"/""/g

Update 07. July 2011: For WP > 3.2 you also need to apply this regex for wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wplink/js/wplink.js to also eliminate this disgusting http:// from the new link-overlay…