Everything about WPMU and... Plugins
What is this, our relaunch week revisited or what!!!
Here’s your third new plugin this week alone - and it’s kinda cool, it allows site admins to lock any post or page from being edited by any other user (even an administrator on their own blog!).
Check it out here: Lock posts WordPress MU Plugin
All it does is drop a simple option under each post which, if checked, locks that post from being edited by anyone other than a site admin user.
So, say a student has submitted an assignment, and you want to stop them editing it after submission - or say that a news story has made it through sub editorial and you want to stop anyone messing with it - or say that you are just hungry for the power :)
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I love a catchy title to a post me ;)
But it’s the best I could come up with to describe how our frankly smashing new Batch Create WPMU plugin works!
It’s kind of like our Blog & User Creator plugin, except on some serious ‘roids… you no longer have to use the form based blog creation method, you can just upload a whole stack of blogs urls/users/user emails/user passwords/blog titles etc. via a text file and… WordPress Mu will go and create them all for you!
Now you tell me that isn’t cool :)
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I told you these last two would be doozies didn’t I :)
Well, say ‘G’day’ to a bit of a big one - The Blog and User Creator
What does it do? Well… it provides you and your users with the facility to create and manage as many blogs and users as you want, straight from the ‘Users’ menu item!
And it makes it so that anyone can figure it out - providing a simple form based system with a simple (default) and advanced interface split.
Think about that for a minute… how is the growth of your site gonna be affected by giving people the facility to create blog sand usernames for other people… no more ’send an invite’… here’s an actual blog, and a username, and a password!
In the first case users/blogs can be created by just providing a username and an email address - all the relevant info will then be sent to the user (with a random password etc.) You can also decide if you want to be added as admin to the blogs you are creating.
In the second you can choose different usernames and blog urls, set the password for each user, set the title for each blog and decide, on a per blog basis, whether you want to be added as admin or not.
It’s been a huge hit at Edublogs.org - and we hope it’ll be just as important at your site!
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For Wednesday we bring you a simple but powerful plugin, Footer Content allows blog administrators to simply add (almost) anything the like to the footer of every page on their blog.
Simply drop this into /mu-plugins/ and a new menu item will appear under each users ‘Appearance’ menu allowing them to insert links, images, javascript or even embed into their footers at will.
Our final two are going to be real doozies too - so hold yer horses!
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Today’s brand spanking new plugin is a must for most people - update services for wpmu.
As you may have noticed, WPMU strips out your ‘update services’ component (the bit where you set which sites to notify when you publish a new post) - well, this plugin brings it back, with bells on.
Not only can you and your users now add or edit which services to notify, but it also adds in new functionality (at the bottom of Site Admin > Options) allowing site admins to configure additional/different default update services.
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Aaron Edwards of Missionspace.com has released a truly excellent mu plugin allowing plugin management for Wordpress MU that supports the native WPMU plugins page…. and the WPMU DEV Premium Supporter plugin!
Aaron says:
This is a rewrite of Plugin Commander and is intended to replace it. It uses a backend site admin options page to adjust plugin permissions. The big difference is that users can activate their plugins on the regular WP plugins page! This is the first plugin of it’s kind to use the new hooks added in the WPMU 2.7 plugins page and a little creative genius to allow no hacking of core files. Also, if you use the excellent Supporter plugin from premium.wpmudev.org you will be able to choose which plugins can be accessed by supporters only!
Nice work Aaron - you can download his plugin (entirely for free) at WPMUDEV.org.
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So, now we’re done with the revamp… we can get on with the really important stuff, delivering you darn great plugins and this is a particularly nice one I reckon.
It’s called Recent Posts and it allows you to display, guess what, recent posts from across your site on your frontopage (or, wherever you want to, in fact).
It requires the post indexer, and a bit of theme editing pokery, but that’s all you need to get a very nice looking front page that extends on our recent global posts widget.
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You may, or may not, have noticed how Blogs.mu doesn’t require email verifications when you sign up.
Well, we figured that you’d quite like access to the plugin that we developed specifically for that - namely our (niftyly titled) remove email verification from WPMU signup plugin!
It does exactly what it says on the tin (unless you want to call disabling removing) - and gets your users blogging that bit more smoothly, quickly and less irksomely.
Enjoy!
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We’ve been doing some seriously cool stuff with Barry of late but it’s been pretty chunky too and, in between mountains of code, decided it was time to clear the decks… get seriously Zen and look to the simple in life.
So, Barry challenges you to declare:
What’s the shortest, yet most useful, WordPress plugin (WP and/or WPMU) you’ve come across or can write yourself?
Length is measured from the start of the actual code, to the end (no need to count the bumpf up top), and quality is rated by usefulness, coolness and general bestness.
Make your submissions (your own, or other peoples plugins) in the comments! May the briefest win!
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Did you get our Useful WPMU Links newsletter?
If so, why don’t you go send some of your own with the WordPress MU MailChimp integration plugin!
It really is da bomb - allowing WordPress MU users (or single WordPress.org users) to simply (and I mean *really* simply) import all of your registered users into MailChimp and then have new registered users added too.
All you need to do is upload it, sign in, select your options and you’re away… shiny, happy email newsletter goodness will be yours!
Check out the options page:
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