Sortable Event and Location Columns in Admin System

[Anonymous]

I have mentioned before that I have been testing EME with WordPress 3.1 RC2. Release was expected in December, is behind schedule, and because of recently discovered bugs there will be an RC3 before release. Even so, WP 3.1 can be expected very soon.

I have a large number of events entered in EME and have found it frustrating to find specific events by name in a long list ordered by date in the admin system. WP 3.1 has a great new sortable-column capability to simplify finding items in long admin-system lists. This page explains how it can be used by a plugin:

http://scribu.net/wordpress/custom-sortable-columns.html

[Franky]

They should switch to using dataTables jquery 🙂

But anyway, nice find. Once 3.1 is in place, we can start using it.

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately, plugin developer use of the new WP 3.1 admin system column sorting feature described above was disabled in WP 3.1RC3 due to a large number of bugs discovered during testing and the capability won’t be included in the final release. This is the text of the official notice about that:

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The biggest change is the removal of AJAX list tables, which had been an effort to move all of our list-style screens to full AJAX for pagination, searches, and column sorts, and to consolidate the list-style screens into a single API that plugins could leverage. Unfortunately, with more testing came realizations that there were too many major bugs and usability issues with how the functionality was implemented, so we’ve spent the last week rolling back the most important portions of the feature.

■For users: AJAX has been entirely disabled for the list tables. We hope to bring this back again, in a form that is properly and fully implemented, in a future release. Column sorting remains, but everything else has returned to its 3.0 state.

■For developers: The entire list table API is now marked private. If you attempt to leverage new components of the API, you are pretty much guaranteeing that your plugins will break in a future release, so please don’t do that. We hope to enable all the fun new goodies for public use in a future release.

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[Franky]

ok, moving to implemented (well, it’s not implemented, but not going to happen …)

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