Extension: Publish Tweeks

Thanks for this addon, it looks extremely handy. One thing that occurred to me is that I don’t really want the ‘Saved!’ message hanging around once the user has updated their entry. If they keep working on it and then save again there is no new element on the page to confirm that they update’s been successful, as the ‘Saved!’ message was already there from the last update.

Fortunately a little bit of jQuery makes it really simple to have the saved message fade out after a few seconds:

[script type="text/javascript"]
$(document).ready(function () {
    $("#message-publish-tweeks")
    .animate({opacity: 1.0}, 5000)
    .fadeOut("slow");
});
[/script]

I imagine there are lots of ways you could add this to the markup. I’m using Leevi’s Add Sitename extension, so I just placed it in the XHTML field that includes. The above code will make the saved message disappear after 5 seconds - you can adjust that by modifying the 5000 variable.

@Dom.S - Genius! Excellent tip.

It would be really great if Dom.S’s code were added to extension!

Hi again,

Found a way to add Dom.S’s code to extension.

To add it open the file exp.publish_tweaks.php in text editor and found the line 175:

Change it with this code:

THat’s it! Now the message “Saved!” will fade out after a few seconds.

Hi Travis,

Just found that Publish Tweaks extension it does not play well with Reeveal Comments extension.

If Publish Tweaks extension is disabled, then Reeveal Comments works correctly, but with Publish Tweaks enabled Reeveal Comments does not work - no comments in Comment tab are shown.

It seems that Publish Tweaks somehow clashes with Reveal Comments extension and prevents it from working correctly.

Hmm that’s odd - I’ve got both those extensions enabled on my blog with no difficulties.

Using 0.8 I found an odd behaviour which looks like a bug. I am setting up a new website, and only have 1 weblog currently. Using the publish tab, if I use the hover state and click on my weblog start a new entry then publish tweaks works fine. But, if I click on the publish tab to start a new entry (not the hover state name of my weblog), it automatically starts one from my one and only weblog, in which case publish tweaks doesn’t work - all buttons and the file upload link are all there.

I’ve noticed that the breadcrumbs in the CP to the publish page are actually different when getting there these two different ways - when it is working (click on the hover state of publish tab) you’re here:

CP Home › Publish › New Entry › Page

But if you just click on the publish tab and it starts one automatically for you you’re here:

CP Home › New Entry › Page

That’s not handled by your extension obviously, but thought it might help in debugging…

Thanks for the great extension!

Using 0.8 I found an odd behaviour which looks like a bug. I am setting up a new website, and only have 1 weblog currently. Using the publish tab, if I use the hover state and click on my weblog start a new entry then publish tweaks works fine. But, if I click on the publish tab to start a new entry (not the hover state name of my weblog), it automatically starts one from my one and only weblog, in which case publish tweaks doesn’t work - all buttons and the file upload link are all there.

Just want to confirm that I can replicate this behavior. Like Brian, I only notice it when there is only 1 weblog and I click directly on the Publish tab. Any ideas what might cause this?

Thanks for the awesome extension.

Jake

I love this extension. But it doesn’t play nicely with the equally awesome NSM Publish Plus extension, as it hides the required “Draft” buttons etc. If only this extension was more configurable: rather than simply giving the option to remove the upload file box, it’d be great if we could choose what options we wanted to action. So, for me, I’d want to have it redirect to the same page; I’d want it to remove the file upload box; but I’d want it to leave the draft buttons etc.

Is this possible? Or am I missing something?

I found that the ‘Saved!’ message sometimes a bit confusing. After saving the entry you’ll get the message, but having multiple tabs open with multiple Saved! messages makes it a bit confusing, so I added a bit of code, that removes the message after 10 seconds.

In you extentions, add after line 175 the following code:

$msg .= '
< script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
    $("#message-publish-tweeks")
        .animate({opacity: 1.0}, 10000)
        .hide(2000, function() {
                $(this).remove();
        });
});
</ script>';

(remove the two spaced in the script tags 😊 )

Just a quick reply to this… once again a great extension and one that i am using now… However it does seem to throw up a little problem with LG HTACESS Generator!!! Not your fault i know…

The LG Extension (i am pretty sure) uses hooks so that when a new entry is created, and the pages module is used, it updates the htaccess file to include the new pages URI.

At the moment the publish tweeks addon seems to side step this and the htaccess is not updated? This might be because the hook is no longer called, similar or something completely else. But any advice on how to work around this issue is appreciated… link to LG on devotee to see details and hooks used: http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/extensions/lg-htaccess-generator/

Cheers, N

Hello publishtweekers. thanks for the tips for fading the msg. Currently i’m trying to add the weblog name to the title field so that editors can more easily distinguish between webogs/channels (see image attachment).

i’m changing the “label for=title” but need a way to get the weblog name. In the “change_submit_buttons” function, just before returning the html, i added:

$new = '<label for="title">weblog_name title</label>';
$find = '#<label for="title">.+?</label>#is';
$html = preg_replace($find, $new, $html);

Is there a way to get weblog_name from some variable or do i need to use a costly db-query?

is it possible that the ext creates a conflict with “button mode” in the most recent Build: 20091201?

I’m having problems with Publish Tweeks on the latest build and using MSM - it seems enabling it in one site enables it in all, and the settings aren’t saved from site to site, which first produces undefined index errors, and then when trying to set preferences, a different php error. Any chance of an update?