In one of the chapters in the WordPress All In One Desk Reference, Andrea includes a list of recommended plugins for use in a WordPress Network. One of those is no longer available for download. Because it was such a handy plugin, I updated the plugin for WordPress 3.0 so that it works with both single...

We’ve been picking away at updating plugins and things for 3.0, doing general tidying up and so forth. Just a dust and a clean, and sometimes a sprinkle of awesome. New in the Featured Posts plugin: a short code. Set it up, pull in a feed, pick & choose your posts, slap the shortcode in a...

Our buddy Pete went and wrote up a very detailed post on how to upgrade from WPMU to WordPress 3.0 if you are brave enough right now to try out the beta2. Pete steps through it manually, so be prepared for that. (and backup your site first). These instructions will still be relevant for the final release....

One of the features that is coming in WordPress 3.0 is the Plugin & Theme editors will be enabled for Super Admins (the new name for site admins). If you have a closed site with a known list of users, it will be a nice feature to have. On the other hand, if you have open registrations with a larger...

Here’s a wee little gift from the folks at Automattic: the custom css plugin they use over at wordpress.com. I know some people have been wanting this for ages, even though there are plenty of similar plugins out there already.  

Andrea was looking for a Twitter digest plugin so that she could start making a permanent backup of her tweets because the twitter API only provides access to the last 3200 tweets. The plugin she asked me to look at was Twitter Digest by Tim Beck. The reason she asked me to look at it was that it the...

Donncha wrote yesterday that he was rolling WordPress 2.9 into WordPress MU trunk. In Donncha’s post he notes that to use the beta you may want to manually create the commentmeta table for each blog before doing the upgrade. Triple J wrote a quick and dirty plugin for it. I revised it a bit today....

A quick note that Chris has released a new version of his Facebook Dashboard Widget (Download link) that is compatible with WPMU.  

Here’s a plugin complete with a widget that lets the site admin pick and choose which posts to feature. A backend menu is created where the admin can input a sitewide feed. In MU, the menu item is under site Admin, and in regular WordPress, it’s under Appearance. We recommend using this in...

Ron and I had a quick idea and a mini challenge for the day. The result is this quick and nifty plugin that left me wondering why nobody had done it yet. Signup CSS (843) This plugin add the css styling needed for the wp-signup page so the form looks a bit better. It should work on any theme, barring...