May 17, 2012

WordPress 3.0.4

A security update was released today. I would rate this release as “critical.” – Matt Update ASAP. You can also check the changed files between 3.0.3 and 3.0.4.

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 [...]

WordPress 3.0.2

WordPress 3.0.2 contains a security patch and you should update your WordPress networks as soon as possible.

Adding a menu to the new network admin

Coming in 3.1, the Super Admin menu will be shuffled off to its own admin area, thus making the distinction really clear between global network actions and site-specific ones. I wrote about this back here. “But Andrea,” some of you have said, “My menus for my plugin are in the wrong place, how do I [...]

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 [...]

Admin bar

Coming up in 3.1 is the additional of the admin bar, similar to the one that runs on WordPress.com. Actually, it’s more than similar, they really did just pull it from wp.com and clean it up a bit. While I think it would drive me nuts on a single install, when you are running a [...]

Post thumbnails for Sitewide Tags

Andrea & I have had several requests to add post thumbnails to Sitewide Tags. A couple months ago, Christine, emailed me an implementation she had done to get it working. I hadn’t had time to look into it until yesterday. I checked in a variation on what Christine had done earlier today. You can download [...]