February 18, 2010 I’ve put together a summary of some useful plugins that you may not have heard about yet. Some of them are new in 2010 and others have been around a little while and have been recently updated. With all the buzz about BuddyPress lately, I’d like to make sure we’re keeping you up to date on all the new and exciting ways to extend WPMU.
1. ThreeWP Global Message
This new plugin will allow you to display different messages in the admin panel based on the user’s role. Custom messages, or no message at all, can be displayed for administrators, editors, authors, contributors and subscribers.
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*New Plugin in 2010
2. WPMU Simple Dashboard
Administrators can use this plugin to turn on or off the following widgets in the dashboard for their users: Primary Feed, Secondary Feed, Incoming Links, Recent Comments, Recent Drafts, Plugins, Quick Press, and Right Now.
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3. Embed RSS
This will add a little button to the visual and html editors within WordPress to allow the user to enter an RSS feed url, choose the number of items to display, and choose to display content, author or date for each item.
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4. WPMU Contextual Related Posts
This plugin requires an Open Calais API key and a Yahoo Term Extraction API key. It works to create relationships between WPMU blog posts based on user defined tags, relevant Open Calais tags and extracted terms.
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5. WPMU Block Spam by Math
This is a great new plugin that works with the WPMU signup process to block spam by requiring a simple math question to be answered at registration.
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*New Plugin in 2010
6. WPtouch iPhone Theme
The plugin description says it best: “With a single click, WPtouch transforms your WordPress blog into an iPhone application-style theme, complete with ajax loading articles and effects, when viewed from an iPhone, iPod touch, Android or BlackBerry touch mobile device.”
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7. BuddyPress Profile Widget for Blogs
This is a brand new plugin that enables blog admins to be able to show their BuddyPress profile on their WPMU blogS.
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*New Plugin in 2010
8. WP Activity
This plugin creates an activity stream in the front and/or backend of a WordPress blog, based on the activities of registered users, such as connections, new comments, profiles updates, new posts, etc. You can also follow the streams via RSS.
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9. Admin Menu Editor
This new plugin allows for manual editing of the dashboard menu via drag and drop as well as the creation of custom menus.
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*New Plugin in 2010
10. User Info Login Shortcode
D’arcy Norman created this plugin to easily display a login form on the front page of a WPMU network if the user is not logged in. If he is logged in, it displays a logout link and a few user-related menu items.
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*New Plugin in 2010
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Thanks for the listing a couple of my plugins!
Sure, thanks for keeping them updated! :)
Would WPtouch iPhone Theme transform your entire site as if you were viewing it from an iPhone? I wonder what nightmare that would bring from a design perspective? Would love to try this though. Thanks for the listing! :D
Thanks for listing my plugin
Lovely Simple Dashboard. Simple is always the best. Nice list.
Thank to write this post about interentig theme. Allways i like all plugins to my site, but if i do them this load many slow. Please aporximate ¿how many plugins recomend maximun for optimice work and eficient for buddypress?
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So many plugins, wouldn’t it slow your wordpress blog?
I’ll suggest to incorporate some simple functionalities into the code itself (hard coded), again, nice list.