WPMU Dev
WPMU Dev is about to turn 100. That’s not years, that’s the count of useful doodads available to the WPMU community. I’ve got a few of my own over there, and they’ve been a great resource for all of us that are actively developing for WPMU. If you’re not familiar with them, be sure to check them out!
Add comment September 17, 2009
Google Maps Embed Plugin
I’ve released a new Google Maps Embed plugin for WPMU (and should work fine for WordPress as well). It uses the link generated by a Google map instead of the API key, for those users or those situations when using an API key is overkill.
Find it here: http://wpmudev.org/project/google-maps-embed
6 comments September 4, 2009
Two New Widgets Released
I threw a couple of new widgets out there for folks to have some fun with.
Featured Blog Tag Cloud and Shortcode
We use this one together with Donncha’s sitewide tags plugin, so we can have a tag cloud on your site’s home page that references the tags from the tags blog. The shortcode just allows you to pass in the ID of the blog you want, otherwise it acts pretty much just like the built-in shortcode, but with the defaults set a little differently – you can set the defaults directly in the code if you prefer different ones.
Featured Blog Widget
This widget lets you pick a featured blog and a featured author within that blog, and it will display the avatar of the featured author and a user-specified number of posts from the blog.
Both of these came out of the work that we were doing on an internal blog server – so they might be a tad bit customized in terms of layout. But, they’re good starting points if you need to do something similar.
9 comments August 25, 2009
Simple Dashboard Plugin Updated
1.3.2 release – It came to my attention that the core function get_blog_list does not include private blogs. So, I swapped out that code for a direct database call to get all blogs that aren’t spam, mature or deleted. I also streamlined the behind the scenes dashboard updates for a bit more efficiency.
Get the latest code over at http://wpmudev.org/project/simple-dashboard
2 comments July 28, 2009
Dashboard Widgets in 2.7
I updated the Codex today to include some information that I had to dig up for my simple dashboard plugin (2.7 version to be released soon). I thought I’d mention it over here in case anyone else is mucking about with the new dashboard API. Check out the section on removing dashboard widgets – I listed out all the widgets that are on the dashboard by default, and how I got them.
Add comment February 19, 2009