February 4, 2012

Newest Blogs widget

Today’s post brings you a little goodie. I looked for this before and couldn’t find one. Basically, it’s pretty simple: we used a function included with the List All redux (588) plugin , and made it a widget with the new widget class for 2.8. New Members Widget (596) Available to anyone on the system, [...]

Show user id in site admin

Andy posted some jQuery that showed the user ids on the site admin users screen. I wrapped the jQuery in a plugin which you drop into your mu-plugins folder. Show User ID on Site Admin Users page (356)

Getting member blog posts on the main page

I’ve answered this one quite a few times in the past couple of weeks and realized that I don’t have a posts specifically for this subject. It’s buried in other posts. There are a few different ways to pull in these posts, and none of them are theme issues. They are done entirely with plugins. [...]

Another new release, and upcoming

So hot on the heels of last week, WPMU 2.8.4a is out with a security fix. If you are stuck at 2.8.1 and have trouble with the auto-upgrade, you have to apply the edits Donncha mention in this post. A lot of us old-times are still more comfortable with the manual upgrade, so if the [...]

WordPress MU 2.8.3

Was released this afternoon. It is a bug/security fix release. If you use the auto upgrade feature please read Donncha’s notes.

Custom Author Permalink

Phil (Frumph) & I worked out another SocialPress plugin this week. This one allows you to change your author permalink across your WPMU install. I also tested it in WP 2.8.3 and it worked there as well. For WPMU I tested from version 2.7 through to pre-release 2.8.3. Built into both WP and WPMU is [...]

WordPress MU Theme Stats

This is a refresh of a plugin that we released about 2 1/2 years ago. This version is designed for either subdomain or subdirectory installs. Plugin page: WordPress MU Theme Stats. Description Adds a Theme Stats option to the site admin menu. The admin panel lists all the themes in use site-wide. At the top [...]