Pär Thernström

Earth People

With EP Admin Messages you can show messages in the admin area of WordPress. Each message can be shown at multiple places and can be limited to only be shown to specific user groups using capabilities.
This plugin requires that you add a config file to your themes folder. It’s mostly useful for theme developers that want tho show messages in the admin to the users of their site.
<h4>Plugin features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Show messages in WordPress Admin</li>
<li>Show messages in different places</li>
<li>Show different messages for different users</li>
<li>Format messages using HTML</li>
<li>Stores settings in a JSON-file. No config screen!</li>
<li>Suitable for website and theme developers that want to push message changes automatically.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Messages are shown where you want them to be shown</h4>
You have full control over where your messages will be shown. 
Each message can be placed in one or several of the following places:
<ul>
<li>dashboard</li>
<li>overview screen for posts, pages, and custom post types</li>
<li>edit screen for posts, pages and custom post types</li>
<li>posts with a specific slug or a slug based on a wildcard</li>
<li>user overview screen and on user profiles</li>
<li>plugin install/update page</li>
</ul>
<h4>Messages are only shown to the users that you choose</h4>
Each message can be limited to be shown only to users with a specific <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Glossary#Capabilities" rel="nofollow ugc">capability</a> or <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#Roles" rel="nofollow ugc">role</a>.
You can for example show one message to your editors, i.e. users with the capability “edit_posts”, and another message to your admins, i.e. users with the capability “manage_options”.
<h4>Messages can be selectd to be shown only on the posts you choose</h4>
Messages can be limited to only be shown on posts that match a specific slug, or a slug that matches a wildcard.
This way it’s easy to for example show page specific information, letting a user know what a page is for, what they should put in in, and so on.
<h4>JSON-based config file</h4>
All settings are configured with a config file (<a href="https://github.com/EarthPeople/ep-admin-messages/blob/master/ep-config-example.json" rel="nofollow ugc">view example config</a>) that uses JSON and that you put in the themes directory.
This means that there are no settings for the user to change. This also means that you can add messages using your regular deploy method. Just upload an updated config file and you’re done. No database syncing needed; hooray!
<h4>Usage scenarios</h4>
To give you an idea what this plugin may be used for, I’ll give you a list of what I do with it.
EP Simple Messages can be used to…
<ul>
<li>… write documentation for users and developers.</li>
<li>… show users what <a href="http://mustache.github.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">Mustache tags</a> are available for a specific post. You know, things like <code>{{user.firstname}}</code> or <code>{{campaign.name}}</code>.</li>
<li>… show a message on the dashboard with support info, like who made the site and who they should contact for support questions.</li>
<li>… let the user know what shortcodes that are available for all posts.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Open source</h4>
The <a href="https://github.com/EarthPeople/ep-admin-messages" rel="nofollow ugc">source code for EP Admin Messages</a> is available at GitHub.

EP Admin Messages

Show messages in WP Admin. Different messages can be shown at different places, for different people.

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What is Twitter Bootstrap? 
It’s a CSS and Javascript framework that helps boost your site design and functionality quickly.
We love Twitter Bootstrap on our <a href="http://icwp.io/2" title="iControlWP: Secure WordPress Management" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress sites at iControlWP</a>. 
And we wanted a way to quickly link the latest Bootstrap CSS and Javascript to all pages, regardless of the WordPress Theme.
With this plugin, now you can!
<ul>
<li>Works with any WordPress Theme without ever editing Theme files and NO programming needed.</li>
<li>Now fully customizable with built-in LESS Compiler.</li>
<li>Handy WordPress [SHORTCODES] to add Twitter Bootstrap elements to your site quickly</li>
<li>Add your own custom CSS reset file</li>
<li>Option to add JavaScript to the [HEAD] (defaults to end of [BODY] as is good practice)</li>
<li>and more..</li>
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To get the latest news and support go here: <a href="http://icwp.io/8" title="WordPress Twitter Bootstrap CSS Plugin Home" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Twitter Bootstrap CSS Plugin Home</a> to see the release article on our site.
Why use Twitter Bootstrap? 
It’s good practice to have a core, underlying CSS definition so that your website appears and acts consistently across all 
browsers as far as possible.
Twitter Bootstrap does this extremely well.
From Twitter Bootstrap: 
Bootstrap is a toolkit from Twitter designed to kickstart development of webapps and sites. 
It includes base CSS and HTML for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation, and more
The problem? 
Many themes do not allow you to add custom CSS files easily. Even the Thesis Framework! So we take 
another approach and inject the CSS as one of the FIRST items in the HTML HEAD section. This way, no 
other CSS interferes first so you can be sure these bootstrap file can be used as a foundation/reset CSS.
The CSS is only part of the solution. Twitter Bootstrap also have Javascript libraries 
to complement their Bootstrap CSS. These may also be added to your site with the option to 
add them to the HEAD of your site – by default they are added to the end of the BODY.
We also wanted the option to alternatively include YUI “reset.css” and “normalize.css”. These both form related roles to bootstrap, but are lighter.
You could look at the difference between the styles as:
<ul>
<li>reset.css – used to strip/remove the differences and reduce browser inconsistencies. It is typically generic and 
will not be any use alone. It is to be treated as a starting point for your styling.</li>
<li>normalize.css – aims to make built-in browser styling consistent across browsers and adds basic styles for modern 
expectations of certain elements. E.g. H1-6 will all appear bold.</li>
<li>bootstrap.css – is a level above normalize where it adds much more styling but retains consistency across modern 
browsers. It makes site and web application development much faster.</li>
</ul>
Some References:
Bootstrap, from Twitter: http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/
Yahoo Reset CSS, YUI 2: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/2/
Normalize CSS: http://necolas.github.com/normalize.css/

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