WordPress Bookmarklet Hack

by on March 3rd, 2005 16 Comments

Most of the posting I do here at Blogging Pro is done using the JavaScript bookmark found at the bottom left hand side of the Write Post screen in the admin section of WordPress. By dragging that link to the quick links section of your browser, you have an easy way to quickly create a post with the URL and selected data from the page you’re currently looking at.

The problem is I like to use the advanced Write Post screen mainly because of the edit timestamp feature. I like to space out my posts so I usually future date them, especially if I find a boat load of WordPress resources all at once.

To have the Advanced Write Post screen display, open up bookmarklet.php in the wp-admin folder and change line 101 to <?php require(’edit-form-advanced.php’); ?>.

Pretty simple.

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Comments

  1. n. says: 3/4/2005

    Oh, so you’re holding back on us? Making us wait for the goods are ya? I want my info, and I want it now! ;-)

  2. John says: 3/4/2005

    Now you know my secret.

  3. Matthias Heil says: 3/4/2005

    Fatal error: Failed opening required ‘0php?’ (include_path=’.’) in /home…bookmarklet.php on line 101

    I’m using 1.5 – any remedy for this error?-)

  4. John says: 3/4/2005

    Looks like when you copied and pasted the change into bookmarklet.php it got corrupted. Be sure you have copied correctly.

  5. Matthias Heil says: 3/5/2005

    Cheers, mate – the two ’ caused the problem – should have been ‘ instead…-)

  6. Matthias Heil says: 3/5/2005

    he… wordpress converts the character… I mean it should have been the on on your # key…-)

  7. John says: 3/5/2005

    Yeah, you have to be careful because ` won’t work in PHP. You need to use either ' or ".

  8. dawnelle says: 3/10/2005

    i really needed this, so thanks very much.

    other novice wp users might benefit from knowing that after you change the bookmarklet.php, you need to use the newly generated bookmarklet found on your admin write posts page to get it to work and delete the original (out-of-the-box) bookmarklet.

  9. John says: 3/10/2005

    Good point Dawnelle.