Yesterday, I pushed out a few updates to an initial version of the Plugin Premium Package Manager for WP Networks plugin for WordPress 3.1. The basic functionality that is there now is A tool for selectively displaying plugins on the…

A security update was released today. I would rate this release as “critical.” – Matt Update ASAP. You can also check the changed files between 3.0.3 and 3.0.4.   © Ron for WordPress Must-Use Tutorials, 2010. | Permalink | No…

Today I updated the Post Gallery Widget plugin. This round of improvements are The widget now has a dropdown with a post order option. The options are by date, by menu_order or random. There is a meta box on the…

WordPress 3.0.2 contains a security patch and you should update your WordPress networks as soon as possible.   © Ron for WordPress Must-Use Tutorials, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: security, upgrade Check out …

Today I added translation support to the development version of the Post Gallery Widget.   © Ron for WordPress Must-Use Tutorials, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: custom post, gallery, home page, rotating, wordpress…

On the weekend I updated the Post Gallery Widget plugin. when I was working on another plugin, I noticed that my test site had rewrite rules for the post gallery posts. Not only are they not necessary, we don’t want…

In a comment on this Sitewide Tags post, Kevin left a comment indicating that they had experienced a conflict between Sitewide Tags and the Subscribe2 plugin. Others had reported that as well, including the CUNY Academic Commons. How the conflict…

Andrea & I have had several requests to add post thumbnails to Sitewide Tags. A couple months ago, Christine, emailed me an implementation she had done to get it working. I hadn’t had time to look into it until yesterday.…

We needed a simple permission based content plugin. So, I wrote one which adds a couple shortcodes where you can specify what permission is required to view the content. Usage is as follows: [visitor]This content will only be shown to…

Found a rewrite loop issue for subfolder installs – my explanation on the ticket. Basically if a file under wp-content is requested and not found, Apache goes into a rewrite loop. Anyone with MU or a 3.0 network can fix…

I developed the Post Gallery Widget plugin in collaboration with the CUNY Academic Commons. This plugin adds a Gallery Posts menu to your WordPress dashboard. To add content to the rotating gallery: Add a new Gallery Post for each image/headline…

Early in the development of WordPress 3.0, we had a preliminary discussion on changing the WordPress database class (wpdb) so that it could be inherited by plugins implementing a custom database class. We had a longer discussion on the subject…

If you want to turn off the post copy in the Sitewide tags plugin on a special site/blog, you can do it with a one line plugin as follows: remove_action('save_post', 'sitewide_tags_post', 10, 2); Install the plugin in the plugins folder…

Over the weekend I updated SharDB to allow installs to upgrade from WordPress MU 2.9.2 to WordPress 3.0.1. I also did an initial pass at support for new WordPress 3.0 -WP network in SharDB. In this implementation the main…

I updated the theme stats plugin to work with new WordPress 3.0 networks as well as with MU installs upgraded to WordPress 3.0. You can download it here: WordPress Network Theme Stats.   © Ron for WordPress Must-Use Tutorials, 2010.…

Both Andrea & I will be speaking at WordCamp Montreal. Andrea & I have had a fantastic time at every WordCamp we have attended and we enjoy meeting other people who use WordPress. If you have never been to one,…

We had a client who is using the WP125 Ads plugin. When they upgraded to WordPress 3.0, it was having an error. I fixed the error and forwarded it to our client. Other folks reported the same issue in this…