February 4, 2012

Customizing multisite dashboards

While I try and figure out where my words went, and if there’s anything new left to write about multisite that I haven’t already, I’d like to highlight this post from Helen, on customizing the special multisite dashboards. A small thing that can bring great usability to your site if you have more than a [...]

How to add a new Super Admin

When you created a network of multiple sites in WordPress 3.0, you (the main blog admin) because a Super Admin with all kinds of fun powers. In some situations, you may desire to have additional Super Admins who can do things like install plugins & themes, perform upgrades, and manage global users and sites. If [...]

CSS Editor plugins

On some installs, you may want to have the ability to make quick css-only changes to your theme that are applied just to the blog you are on. Or maybe you’d like to give your users this ability, like you can get at wordpress.com. There are a few plugins available to help you do this. [...]

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)

So easy my mom can use it – the image badge widget

When I first had the idea for this widget, it was because my mom asked for it. I had set her up with her own blog, and since she is new to blogging in general (but not computers thankfully), the only thing she had trouble doing was something a lot of new users struggle with. [...]