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In WordPress 3.2, the favorite actions menu was removed during the latest UI refresh. If you’re like me, you had used its hooks to add your own links to frequently-used sections of the admin. I had even made a plugin that allowed me to easily add and remove links. Two things that went in there were a link to the listing of scheduled posts, as well as an item to quickly empty WP Super Cache’s stored cache files.

So now that the core contributors got rid of my convenient quick-access to my scheduled posts and cache settings, I decided to hack together a makeshift replacement. I noticed that the Profile and Log Out links had been rolled into a new User Info menu (a.k.a. the “Howdy Menu”) and set about looking through the WordPress API for a suitable hook. After finding the right one, I set about writing a little bit of code…

add_filter('admin_user_info_links', 'wsc_add_custom_user_links');

function wsc_add_custom_user_links($links) {
    $links[] = '<a href="options-general.php?page=wpsupercache&tab=easy">Cache</a>';
    $links[] = '<a href="edit.php?post_status=future&post_type=post">Scheduled</a>';
    $links[] = '<a href="http://example.org">Another link</a>';
    return $links;
}

Here’s the part where I laughed maniacally about thwarting Matt Mullenweg’s scheme to lower blogging productivity.

You can plunk this code snippet down in your theme’s functions.php file, adding or removing links as you wish. It’s not as elegant as the favorite actions menu, and its a bit narrower. So you will need to watch the character length of your link text, unless you want some ugly word-wrapping to happen. I imagine you could improve it by hooking in a new CSS file with some modifications, but that’s a bit more than a 10-minute fix.

There you have it. You can add your own links to the User Info menu in WordPress 3.2 in place of the favorite actions menu.

Back in May, the popular WordPress blog WPTavern (home of the WordPress Weekly podcast) was put up for sale by its owner. It was taking up too much of his time and “real life” was getting in the way.

If you’re a reader of WPTavern, you’ll be happy to learn that an undisclosed buyer has acquired the site under the stipulation that Jeff continue to be at the helm.

I’m happy to report that not only have I sold the content I generated to an awesome buyer, they have requested that I continue about my business with WPTavern, the forum and the podcast as if nothing has happened. The only distinct change that has happened and will be the only thing to happen for the foreseeable future is that the site will be owned by someone else. I am in charge of maintaining and operating the site as I normally would. At the request of the new owner, the terms of the deal as well as who the new owner is is under wraps.

Another part of the deal, there will no longer be display advertising on WPTavern…though perhaps we’ll be seeing some from the new owner in the future?

I’ve noticed on more than once website that, since upgrading to WordPress 3.1, frequent “memory exhausted” errors on Admin pages. It seems like a 32MB allotment just isn’t enough for a WordPress site with a few plugins anymore. Increasing the script memory limit in php.ini (while tweaking the FastCGI process count, in my case, to balance the increase) fixes the fatal errors. 48MB seems to be sufficient, though your mileage may vary.

I wonder what changed that is causing increased memory usage, seeing as the 3.0.x line didn’t have the problem. (Though I recall some of the dashboard widgets occasionally spitting out a similar error on occasion, thanks to SimplePie’s tendency to use a lot of RAM.)