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The update to domain mapping has a few warnings fixed & addresses the issue of saving the settings in WP 3.3.

The update to Sitewide tags has a few fixes. If you were having an issue with SWT adding duplicate categories, can you give this a test and let me know if it fixes the issue? I’ve not been able to reproduce the issue with the latest development version.

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This plugin allows a user admin on the network to put the entire install under maintenance mode or just selected sites.

Haven’t given it a whirl yet, but it looks pretty useful.

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Today I pushed out version 0.2.4 which has script fixes for link insertion & cross domain support for IE (tested with 8 & 9). It’s the go version. Those two issues with IE were the only things we found since 0.2.3.

Update Aug 11, 2011

Today I pushed out version 0.2.3 which is a release candidate. Essentially everything is done with the plugin but more extensive/wider use may reveal a bug. Updates/additions:

• Several script fixes
• filter for uses custom caps with the custom taxonomies document_taxonomy_capabilities
• If you have selected text in the post editor and insert a document link, the selected text is used as the link text for the document link
• translation support

Original post

Over the weekend I released the beta version of the Document Repository plugin.I’ve labeled it as a beta because I have a bit more work to do on it. However, the current version does work and only lacks a few minor things like translation support, etc. Over the next week or so I will be rolling those final touches in. I’ll update this post accordingly.

The main goal of the plugin is to provide a central repository of documents for a website using WordPress as a CMS. Many organizations implementing a CMS update their documents on an ongoing basis. Using the default media handling in a WordPress would mean updating URLs to uploaded documents throughout the website’s content as new versions of documents were uploaded. The document repository does not contain any workflow, collaboration, version control or approval features. If you are looking for a document authoring collaboration tool, please see WP Document Revisions.

The Document Repository implements a custom post type and custom attachments to achieve document revisioning where the permalink to the latest version of the document persists for the life of the document post (although the permalink is editable). The permalink to the current version of the document is

/document/document-name

Earlier versions of the document are also available via permalink

/document/document-name/version/3

Assuming there is an attachment available for downloading, a request to either of the permalinks above generates a direct download of the associated document.

The Document Repository plugin was developed in collaboration with the University of Mary Washington.

Usage

In a single WP install, activate the document repository and any of the included optional plugins you wish.

In a network,

• activate the document repository on one site in the network. Do not network activate it unless you want all the sites in the network to be document repositories.
• if you are implementing the custom taxonomies, activate that plugin on the document repository site.
• if you are implementing the custom roles, activate that plugin on the document repository site.
• if you are implementing the network extras, network activate that plugin.

The document repository plugin adds a Document post type to the WP dashboard. When editing a document post, enter a title and description/abstract which will be shown in search results in the document repository site. Click on the media button to open the media library. In the media library upload the document file. Once uploaded, click the finish button to return to the Document post.

The custom taxonomy plugin is included as a sample of implementing custom taxonomies with Document posts. It requires a document be given a term from all the custom taxonomies before allowing the document to be published. If you modify the taxonomy plugin to suit your implementation, copy it out of the document-repository folder and rename the PHP class to avoid duplicate classes and having your version overwritten by an update.

The custom roles plugin adds an Roles screen under the Documents menu. Add your roles through this screen. Then edit the site users’ profiles and assign the appropriate roles to the editors, authors & contributors. Once these roles are assigned, editors will only have edit permission on their own Document posts and authors & contributors that have the same Document role as they do. Site admins & super admins have access to all the document posts.

The extras plugin adds a media button to the media buttons in the edit post & page screens. Clicking this button opens a custom media screen to a search feature for the document repository. Documents can be searched by text string (same as default WP search), tag and/or custom taxonomy (if active on the document site). An Insert into Post link is provided for each Document.

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Latest Release was compatible with WP 3.2RC3:

• SharDB 2.7.5
• Sitewide Tags 0.4.1.1
• Genesis Simple Menus 0.1.3.2

Development version was compatible with WP 3.2RC3:

• Domain Mapping – there were a couple fixes that had been sitting in the dev version since March & May. I tagged a new version minor release.
• Snackbar – I added a sites link to the snack bar network menu a few months back and forgot to release a new version.

Enjoy the new version of WordPress

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Sub Site Requirements

Each of the sub sites must:

• be using a theme that registers WP nav menus.
• have at least one menu with one or more menu items. The wp_nav_menu() function exits early without displaying a menu if it does not find a menu with menu items.
• have a nav menu assigned to the specified slot. It can be an empty menu. The reason for this is the same as the previous limitation.

Main Site Implementation

• Create your network menu in the main site.
• Assign it to the chosen menu slot.
• Populate your chosen menu on the main site.
• Load the front end of the main site.

The reason for the last step is that each time you change a menu item on the main site a flag is set to flush the cached menu. The cached menu is refreshed the next time the menu is generated on the main site. Download: Networkwide Menu (303)

Customizing for your use

• Network wide – I made it a network wide plugin. If you want to activate it only on specific subsites, then remove the Network: true line in the plugin header.
• Menu slot – the first line of code below the copyright notice is $slot = 1;. The $slot variable is used to determine which menu slot to use when replacing the menu. As far as this plugin goes, menu slots are determined by the order in which they are registered by the theme. The first menu location registered is slot 1. The second menu registered is slot 2 and so on.

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+= 0.4.1.1 =
+* Run populate feature in source blog context.
+* Added resource warning for populate feature.
+* Fixed PHP warnings.
+* Only insert categories for published posts.

If you noticed in WordPress 3.1.3 that posts were being duplicated, this fixes it. Thanks for those who helped work through this issue in these threads.

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If you are currently using Sitewide Tags, please give the dev version a spin and let me know in the comments if it works.

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Over the last year plus, I’ve been collaborating with the BP core development team to add the ability to have multiple separate BuddyPress social networks in the same WordPress install. Over the last week a number of changes have been rolled into BP trunk to support separate networks. However, by default, BP will continue to function as a single network across WP networks consistent with the current behavior. A plugin is required to enable multiple distinct BP networks.

You also need to have a plugin to create multiple WP networks in your install. For that you can use either WP Multi Network or Networks+.

You can download an alpha version of my BP multi-network plugin below. This is currently only for testing and should be used on a test site. Once BP 1.3 is released I’ll be adding this to the plugin repository at wordpress.org. Instructions for using this are:

• install the latest version of BuddyPress trunk http://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk. You need at least revision #4392.
• install bp-multi-network.php in the mu-plugins folder (must be installed there to work correctly)
• create your second WP network with one of the plugins above
• activate BP on the sub network and go through the installation wizard
• for forums you need to tweak your bb-config.php a bit – see below

Download the plugin here.

bb-config.php changes

Your bb-config.php has a line similar to

$bb_table_prefix = 'wp_bb_';

Change that line to

if( function_exists( 'bp_core_get_table_prefix' ) )
	$bb_table_prefix = bp_core_get_table_prefix() . 'bb_';
else
	$bb_table_prefix = 'wp_bb_';

A few lines below that you’ll see a line similar to

$bb->uri = "http://domain.com/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/";

change that line to

if( function_exists( 'get_current_site' ) ) {
	$current_site = get_current_site();
	$bb->wordpress_mu_primary_blog_id = $current_site->blog_id;
	$bb->uri = BP_PLUGIN_URL . '/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/';
} else
	$bb->uri = "http://domain.com/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/";

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