Google Maps Embed Plugin 1.1 Released

This is just a small update to the google maps embed plugin I previously released. The one includes a quicktag on the HTML editor bar. It also defaults to map view instead of satellite view, and opens the larger map in a new window.

Enjoy the new version!

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!

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

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.

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

New Blog Defaults Bug Fix – Yet Again

My coworker discovered another bug. (Thanks, Kevin.) Apparently, after a user created a new blog, they were being directed back to the main blog on the congratulations page.The latest version fixes that issue.

Get the code here: http://wpmudev.org/project/New-Blog-Defaults

Another New Blog Defaults Bug Fix

The permalinks continue to be a source of frustration, eh? So, the latest bug pointed out by Sam, in this thread, http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/12645?replies=5, involved the addition of the “blog” word in sub directory category and tag bases. I believe this fix should take care of that. If you weren’t using category base or tag base in your defaults, you probably don’t need this fix. If you were, then it’s probably going to help you out.

Get the code here: http://wpmudev.org/project/New-Blog-Defaults

Simple Dashboard Plugin Update

I released the updates for the 2.7-compatible version of my simple dashboard plugin this morning. Code can be found here:

http://wpmudev.org/project/simple-dashboard

It lets you turn on and off all the widgets on the dashboard, and lets you override the primary and secondary feed. It also lets you turn off the ability for the users to customize those feeds. (So, if you want to lock them to one feed you can.) It does not prevent them from just getting rid of the feed entirely, or from re-ordering.

Enjoy!

New Blog Defaults Bug Fix

So, apparently there was a bug in the latest version of New Blog Defaults. Permalinks weren’t working correctly on sub-domain installs. Here’s the latest version that has been tested on sub-domains and theoretically works. I don’t have a sub-domain environment on which to test, so I’m trusting my tester out there. (Thanks, Ovidiu.)

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.