February 8, 2012

SharDB for WP 3.1

Early in the development of WordPress 3.0, we had a preliminary discussion on changing the WordPress database class (wpdb) so that it could be inherited by plugins implementing a custom database class. We had a longer discussion on the subject while together at WordCamp San Francisco. As a result, there was a small change to [...]

Turn off Sitewide Tags on special blogs

If you want to turn off the post copy in the Sitewide tags plugin on a special site/blog, you can do it with a one line plugin as follows: remove_action(‘save_post’, ‘sitewide_tags_post’, 10, 2); Install the plugin in the plugins folder and activate the blogs/sites you don’t want the SWT plugin to copy posts to the [...]

Using the sitewide tags plugin

I often recommend the use of the Sitewide tags plugin as a means to pull in all the posts from all the sites across the network to the front page, or a secondary blog. Even though the plugin is pretty straightforward, a lot of people get tripped up on the little details. Installation: Install the [...]