May 17, 2012

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Permission based content

We needed a simple permission based content plugin. So, I wrote one which adds a couple shortcodes where you can specify what permission is required to view the content. Usage is as follows: [visitor]This content will only be shown to a visitor. It will not be shown to any logged in user.[/visitor] [user]This content will [...]