In 3.1 the colums in network admin that show siteID are gone. You can still get the ID when hovering over the site name, but some people just really like seeing them. Ipstenu to the rescue! She wrote up a handy show site ID columns plugin.
Sitewide Tags update
Yesterday, I released Sitewide Tags version 0.4.1. Donncha & I have been adding things to SWT over the last few months. I noticed after the this round of changes that we had forgotten to release an updated version after the last round of changes. So, there’s quite a bit added between 0.4 and 0.4.1: Now [...]
Login Logo
It’s been a long time since we talked about a branded login screen for your network. But Mark Jaquith has come to the rescue with his release of his login logo plugin. Putting the image file right in /wp-content/ is brilliant in its simplicity. this plugin is also ready to use in the mu-plugins folder [...]
Plugin Manager for Networks
Yesterday, I pushed out a few updates to an initial version of the Plugin Premium Package Manager for WP Networks plugin for WordPress 3.1. The basic functionality that is there now is A tool for selectively displaying plugins on the site plugins screen. If you are familiar with the plugin commander, then this is a [...]
Snack Bar for Super Admins
Coming up in 3.1 is the addition of the often debated admin bar. Long time wpmu users know at one point we had it rolled in. Well, they rolled it in to WordPress itself. It has been severely altered, so many of the items have been stripped to essentials. A decision was made to remove [...]
Post Gallery Order Option
Today I updated the Post Gallery Widget plugin. This round of improvements are The widget now has a dropdown with a post order option. The options are by date, by menu_order or random. There is a meta box on the post gallery edit post screen to set the menu order of each post. The menu [...]
Post gallery translation support
Today I added translation support to the development version of the Post Gallery Widget.
Post Gallery Update
On the weekend I updated the Post Gallery Widget plugin. when I was working on another plugin, I noticed that my test site had rewrite rules for the post gallery posts. Not only are they not necessary, we don’t want the gallery posts to be publicly accessible via a URL. So, the update removes the [...]
Update your mu plugins
Mu-plugins do not do update checks, so this is a friendly reminder to spend some time looking them over, upgrading as needed and culling out unused ones or replacing ones that have more efficient counter-parts. If you are a developer, I was also reminded about older plugins and version compatibility. If you maintain a plugin [...]
Unhook While Switched
In a comment on this Sitewide Tags post, Kevin left a comment indicating that they had experienced a conflict between Sitewide Tags and the Subscribe2 plugin. Others had reported that as well, including the CUNY Academic Commons. How the conflict occurs is that Subscribe2 is hooked into several post related hooks & Sitewide Tags uses [...]

