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 (471) 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...

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 *...

In October 2008, CommentLuv won first place in the WPMU plugin contest. The beta test for the WP/WPMU 2.7 version of the plugin begins tomorrow. The beta test will involve a limited number of blogs including WPMU Tutorials. If you want a preview of what a commenter will see with the new version, have...