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
October 27, 2010 By
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 [...]
Post Gallery Widget
October 4, 2010 By
I developed the Post Gallery Widget plugin in collaboration with the CUNY Academic Commons. This plugin adds a Gallery Posts menu to your WordPress dashboard. To add content to the rotating gallery: Add a new Gallery Post for each image/headline to be shown in the rotating gallery Attach one or more images to the gallery [...]
SharDB for WP 3.1
September 25, 2010 By
Early in the development of WordPress 3.0, we had a preliminary discussion on changing the WordPress database class (wpdb) so that it could be inherited by plugins implementing a custom database class. We had a longer discussion on the subject while together at WordCamp San Francisco. As a result, there was a small change to [...]
Turn off Sitewide Tags on special blogs
September 4, 2010 By
If you want to turn off the post copy in the Sitewide tags plugin on a special site/blog, you can do it with a one line plugin as follows: remove_action(‘save_post’, ‘sitewide_tags_post’, 10, 2); Install the plugin in the plugins folder and activate the blogs/sites you don’t want the SWT plugin to copy posts to the [...]
Using the sitewide tags plugin
September 3, 2010 By
I often recommend the use of the Sitewide tags plugin as a means to pull in all the posts from all the sites across the network to the front page, or a secondary blog. Even though the plugin is pretty straightforward, a lot of people get tripped up on the little details. Installation: Install the [...]
SharDB 3.0.1 Update
August 3, 2010 By
Over the weekend I updated SharDB to allow installs to upgrade from WordPress MU 2.9.2 to WordPress 3.0.1. I also did an initial pass at support for new WordPress 3.0 -> WP network in SharDB. In this implementation the main site’s tables will be in the global database. You can easily set up a test [...]
Theme Stats Updated
July 21, 2010 By
I updated the theme stats plugin to work with new WordPress 3.0 networks as well as with MU installs upgraded to WordPress 3.0. You can download it here: WordPress Network Theme Stats.
Last updated sites widget
July 15, 2010 By
This is a handy little widget that will pull a list of all the sites in your network and order them by last updated. The code for this was originally in the home theme of the WPMU download, so thanks to Donncha for that bit. Last Updated Sites widget (327) I tested it in the [...]
