As you may well know I am of the option that there is a lot of value in paid service like WPMU DEV Premium – as they are responsive to your needs.
For example, when a plugin we offer stops working with a particular version of WordPress then we update it within days (or often hours!) or develop an alternative.
While free plugins often go out of date, aren’t fixed up and support is ignored – like Unfiltered MU which was last updated in May 2008 and basically no longer works. Despite the fact that the authors are Automattic, go figure.
Which is a problem, because it’s critical to a lot of sites.
So, here’s a fixed version that works just fine for WPMU 2.8.4a. Specifically it:
- Works
- Adds authors and contributors as unfiltered roles (you can edit this out pretty easily on lines 51 and 30)
Download the fixed Unfiltered MU here.
Let us know if you have any issues with it :)
I should also mention that if you want more control than this plugin gives you there’s also the Additional Tags plugin - but that’s got guaranteed support / updates etc. attached to it…and who’d want that :)
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October 13, 2009 
well played :)
I checked your “fixed” version and all it does is add the unfiltered_html capability to authors and contributors. Nothing else. The plugin works fine now in WordPress MU 2.8.4a as the promote_if_siteadmin() bugs have been fixed.
Neither of those roles have that capability in WordPress itself as it’s a security risk. If a blog admin is going to give that much power to an author or contributor, they should trust them enough to make them an editor.
Heya Donncha,
As you know I’m not a coder :)
All I’m doing here is releasing a version that’s been fixed up by our team for Edublogs – it (unlike the version I downloaded from .org) works – what can I say.
Well, Mike gave me write access to the plugin this morning and I updated the readme.txt, finishing with the text, “Are you still 100% sure you want to use this plugin?”
It also suggests using other plugins to embed videos which will hopefully solve the stripped html problem for 99% of users.
That’s good to know – but to be honest the post is as much an illustration of the value (and responsiveness) of services like WPMU DEV Premium.
How? The add_cap() bug had been fixed months ago, in WordPress MU itself. I still remember that time as it really annoyed me and took quite some time and effort to sort out. The forum posts you linked to were mostly from long ago. There’s nothing to fix.
I don’t doubt that you offer a great service (really!) but it’s a bit disingenuous to imply that Automattic doesn’t, just because we didn’t “fix” a plugin that didn’t need to be fixed.
Actually I don’t agree with you on that – forum threads should have been responded to and the plugin should have been fixed up before.
Adding author/contributor roles to the unfiltered plugin isn’t “fixing” it. It’s creating a massive security liability. I hope you aren’t running it like that on .edublogs for your own sake.