k_tinyMCE

When I install and configure TinyMCE, there’s a Find-n-Replace icon. IFF you put it on your toolbar[2], then something magical happens

• Ctrl-F outside the text editor is unaffected 🙂 You get the traditional search box natively provided by the browser
• Ctrl-F inside the text editor launches a pop-up[1], which can match whole-words and replace 🙂
• However, with this pop-up the multiple matches in the editor are no longer highlighted as before.  Solution:

1. click somewhere outside the editor
2. Ctrl-F and ensure you get the traditional search box natively provided by the browser.

[2] I find it better to remove this icon by default, and add it to toolbar only when required.

— gmail .. no way to change the 30D setting
— windows .. no 30D timer. Trash folder is never automatically cleared
== wpress .. a sequence of devices

1. tags .. t_del_@
2. tags .. t_del
3. title .. change post title to place holder, easily searchable when I need to recycle outdated posts and preserve postId (sequence numbers)
   • .. Alternatively, prefix the title with _place_holder_, but this would be closer to t_del and further from the classic trash

In addition,

• ChangeEmptyTrashTime plugin .. easiest. I set it to 9999 but untested.
• without the plugin, default trash (a device in itself) is 30D

— restoring trash item
Sometimes I “trash” a too-familiar (unfresh) item to improve search. I may want to restore it years later. I know the item may be purged any time.

On another note, I tried “restoring from trash” and recycling the postId just like phone number recycling. It is tricky becuase once the post is moved out of trash, I could lose track of it while its content possibly duplicated somewhere else. So I think large blogs like recrec should avoid this technique.

always check the 1-star reviews, not the 5-start empty reviews.

Beware version conflict between theme, plugins and wordpress software.

— betterSearchReplace: must go to top row -> rightmost link -> disable 2nd of four items [HideDashboardNotices]
To update blogpost body+title, Only one Mysql table should be touched — wp_4wmfvs_posts (used to be  wp_posts [https://codex.wordpress.org/Database_Description])

https://btv-open.dreamhosters.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=39950&action=edit compares other plugins.

— HideDashboardNotifications. After activate, to to left menu -> HideNotices -> turn on 2nd item
* to hide reminder to upgrade to latest
* to hide warning about AdvancedEditorTools incompatibility with 5.5.3
— classic editor:
* ClassicEditor has 5 million installs .. officially maintained by the official wpress team
* disableGutenberg has 600K installs.
— admin col
— smtp
— email post changes
— force login.. see https://btv-open.dreamhosters.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=47187&action=edit
— remove footer credit .. “powered by ..”
config is in tools-> removeFooterCredit
— save/update buttons
0) when your cursor is in the Title or Date, the Enter key works well.
1) ImprovedSaveButton adds multiple 2-in-1 commands, but I prefer to uncheck DisplayButtonAsDefault, to avoid conflict with ToolbarPublishButton
2) ToolbarPublishButton adds two buttons to toolbar (always-on-top), esp. the ViewPost button
3) SaveWithKeyboard trigger an autoSave. Sugg: increase autosave frequency (heavy on server). After autoSave, try Ctrl-S
— GEX course recommended plugins:
wordfence: security plugin
elementor: post editor, but am happy with classic. I assume classic editor is better supported.
anti-spam: to prevent bot comments
updraftPlus: for backup. Can rollback to an earlier snapshot2
all-in-one WP migration

The context: when I have a big blogpost to review, it often takes a long time and a lot of back-n-forth in the post.

New solution: two windows, possibly on two monitors. One window shows the post editor; the other displaying published post.

Traditional solution: A single wordpress post editor

• it uses only part of the monitor real estate
• I constantly worry about accidental edit like deleting a char. In 2-window, I spend most of the time in reader window, and switch to the editor window only briefly.
• during the /lengthy/ review, I need to Save (my changes) many times. Each Save is slow and disrrupts the flow of reading. In 2-window, I tend to Save slightly fewer times (less scolling in the editor), and the reader window is unaffected.

This blogpost collects all the tips around the columns in the admin interface. Each post is one row, so each column is a field about a post.

The free wordpress.com gives me zero customization.

— the wordCount scratches a big itch

— I added a Pub column for publicationDate. It is unsortable, but much shorter (space-saving).
I unhide the original Date column (too wide) when I need to sort by date.

On the post listing page there are two controls: 1) AdminCol config and 2) ScreenOption complement each other .

— by downsizing the Other columns, I leave more room for title. Relieves the pain of “too many posts with unclear title, forcing me to open each to read”
Note category/tag only offer limited relief.

This is one enlarged word in a sentence, at <span style=”font-size: 155%;”>.

— Here is a simpler alternative:

I used  <font size=5> for this word, but WordPress editor converted it to <span style=”font-size: x-large;”>