Over at BuddyDress a new weekly feature of tutorials has kicked off with the first ‘Add a widget anywhere in 3 steps‘. These tutorials are both a video and a written step by step guide. The aim of these is to each week take you through a customisation you can do to any BuddyPress theme [...]
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I’d like to introduce you to a handy tool that will allow you to fine-tune the display of content in the widgetized areas of your WordPress theme. If you’ve ever been frustrated by the limitations of pages and posts with the same inflexible sidebar, this plugin is for you. It will help you to build [...]
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 [...]
Have you ever found a plugin for a widget that you’d like to use in a page or post, but the only widgetized sections of your theme are sidebars and footers? Sometimes these plugins will come with shortcodes but sometimes those are not available. You can always hardcode it into the template by using the [...]
Here are some fantastic widgets that you will love and find instantly useful! Who doesn’t love the ease of install, drag and drop? It can be quite a hunt to find widgets that are WPMU-compatible when you’re looking to add a little bit of functionality without having to try four or five plugins that do [...]
by James
So, to kick us off on our week of greatest hits, there’s the original WordPress MU hit, the Edublogs homepage theme. With more downloads than any other theme (except the theme pack) it’s been a rollicking success and has brought order to the homepages of countless WPMU sites. We also decided to make what we [...]
by James
Happy April guys, and we trust you’re gonna like what we have for you to kick the month off. We’ve gone widget wild over at WPMU DEV Premium and have a stack of the little buggers which will make your life easier, more community focused and generally – we hope – better! All of these [...]
by admin
Featplug is a plugin that can mine your WordPress -even WordPress MU-, (or any other Blog/CMS/Forum software’s) posts and generates ‘featured content’ section for your blog using the posts and images. Features: Image caching (once a image is re-sized & rendered by plugin, it’s cached for future hits which saves lots of performance) Template support [...]
by admin
Menus (Enable or disable WP Backend Menus) I needed an mu-plugin to keep track of what menus I’ve enabled or disabled. The SiteAdmin–>Options already does the Plugins menu, so I’ve add a bunch more. If, like me, you need to hide the Themes Menu, or don’t want anyone messing with the Permalinks menu, or are [...]
by James
The ultimate WPMU / WordPress theme pack is now ready to download!
Well, it’s been a while in coming, but we’re delighted to announce the release of the latest Farms theme pack, and we think you’re going to like it!!! Introducing the 133 WPMU & WordPress Theme Pack! Yep, you read right, we’ve added 33 new themes, but more importantly we’ve spent literally months working on every [...]