Note: This plugin has been submitted to the weblogtooolscollection plugin competition 2009. Working with a single large export file can be difficult. Use this plugin to create multiple export files that contain sections of your blog. This plugin has been tested on WP versions 2.7 - 2.8 & WPMU 2.7.X. All...

I noticed this new plugin which looks like it could be handy - especially if you are tearing your hair out trying to debug issues with WPMU. Included debug information: * Show template file viewing * Display page/query load times * Display all queries executed w/ load times * Enable WP_Debug * Show all...

I wrote the original login widget 2-3 years ago. The reason I wrote it was that quite a few of our bloggers on homeschool journal had/have their comments set to user must be logged in to comment. The default flow for a commenter (using the default links) in that situation is Click the login link &...

A few weeks ago, Frumph launched SocialPress as an informal project offering lightweight alternative plugins to BuddyPress. Alternatives are always nice. My initial offering for SocialPress is a plugin which blends signup options by allowing only user signups, but logged in users can create blogs. The...

A month or two ago someone mentioned to me that they left the WPMU Admin bar enabled because it gave users with multiple blogs links to the admin area of each their blogs. I personally don’t use the admin bar and turn it off on any of my blogs. On a client site I leave it enabled but still don’t...

One often requested feature is the ability to put a domain name on a sub-blog. Most people are unsure of what to call it, so I’ll tell you - domain mapping. While there has been a few ways to approach this in the past, it’s now easier with Donncha’s WordPressMU Domain Mapping plugin....

.. at least the ones I tend to use the most often. Depending on the site, I may use a different combination of plugins, as not all site need all the same plugins, but there are a few I use consistently. I’ve limited this post to just plugins that Site Admins use or need - not ones users might...

Creating a reusable widget requires a bit more code than a one time use widget. I’ll walk you through the code that you need to add/change to make a widget reusable. A term that I’m going to use in the tutorial is instance. If you add 5 of this widget to your sidebars, then you have 5 instances...

Earlier this week, someone contacted us through our contact page and gave a brief description of what he/she was looking to do with his/her site. Here is part of that description: ….concerning my website mydomain.com I would like to cut it in N subdomains by category…. The contact email did...

The fantabulous Barry (from ClearSkys) whipped up a little plugin to remove remote calls to update servers, and if you’re working locally and offline, those calls will slow you down to an agonizing crawl. So, enter a quickie. See here for details: How to: remove remote calls in WordPress MU