Tags: wpmu wpmu_plugins

Posted by: digizen

Objective:

Starting with WP 1.5, many of us had to find a solution to upgrade/manage mutiple sinlge wp blogs. This was solved with the release of wpmu.  From there, many of us then had to figure out a way to upgrade/manage multiple mu blogs.  This is an attempt to solve this problem.

Features:

1. Multiple MU blogs ex. domain1.com, domain2.com, subdomain.domain1.com, etc.
2. Different site admins for each mu blog.
3. Different mu blogs are maintained as companies
4. Each site admin is given it’s own company to manage blogs, sites and users.
5. Domain name mapping

Requirements:

WPMU 2.6.1

Pros:

1. Manage multiple mu-sites with one wordpress install.
2. Assign site admins to companies and restrict their access to blogs, users.

Cons:

1. Have to edit 3 core files.

Download: http://realestatetomato.com/wpmu-enterprise/

I would love any and all suggestions/comments.

I just met with some folks from College Relations to talk about how they could use WordPress for faculty bios, which got me totally amped! They want to make faculty responsible for updating their own bios, which was being done with Adobe Contribute, with much resistance from the faculty….We settled on this for a plan: College Relations folks will administer a Faculty blog with one page for each faculty member with a bio….Faculty members can also update their personal pages/blogs and link back to them from their bio’s on the Faculty blog if they’re into that sort of thing. We also discussed ways to get the RSS feed from their personal blog to show up on the bio page….

Very cool stuff, and the plugin for bringing in faculty RSS feeds may very will be aggr. It’s this kind of thing that just further reinforces how useful it is to share what happens in our work regularly. Moreover, it illustrates how key it is for colleges to have a simple, powerful publishing application that will allow this to happen more readily. Looks like Esther is taking care of this for Smith College, so bully for her.

It works similarly (and is compatible with) how WordPress.com does it — shortcodes aka BBCode. The user simply clicks a button in their editor and pastes the URL to the video (no need to dig through the embed HTML) into the box that pops up and wa-la — it’s embedded. It’ll even keep their blog XHTML valid.

For more details as well as screenshots, see the plugin’s homepage.

Install as you would any other widget. Tested on WPMU 2.6+. But should work fine with any recent WPMU version as well.

• Enter the user ID, login name, or email into the widget control panel to feature recent posts from a WPMU community user. Numeric ID is matched against existing user IDs.
• Featured User Posts
  • Display 0-10 most recent posts
    • the most recent post comes from any blog, remaining posts come from same blog, however
    • full post, post excerpt, no post content
    • titles
    • author
    • date
    • comment link
    • post category
    • post tags
    • avatars(any size 8-80 px)
  • Filtered by Tags(comma separated list)
  • Filtered by Categories

  Usage notes: 1-9 multiple widgets by default, but you may want to modify the widget to allow only a couple as the server resources needed go up with each multiple.

  Download: http://wpmudev.org/project/Sitewide-Featured-User-Widget

Go have a play and let the man know if you find any bugs.

Thankfully, WordPress MU 2.6.1 wasn’t affected by the security issue that prompted the release of 2.6.2 for regular WP, so while it’s always good to upgrade… this one ‘aint compulsory.

Anyway, I uploaded the files over at WPMU Dev. Take a crack at them and let me know what you think.

http://wpmudev.org/project/New-Blog-Defaults

I’ve been swamped, hence the lack of posting. It’s clearing up though, so hopefully I’ll get to writing up some posts on a few techniques I had to figure out.

Also, I’ve been poking Ron so he’ll post here too.

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