Archive for the 'plugin' Category
I saw a few people looking for solutions to off-load wpmu files to Amazon-S3 service. This is something we wanted to try on our installation (just a few thousand blogs) so I wrote a plugin that will serve themes css and image files from S3.
The plugin uses the ‘stylesheet_directory_uri‘ filter to set the stylesheet uri [...]
April 12th, 2008 | Posted in Amazon S3, Wordpress MU, plugin | 11 Comments
As I promised a few days ago, the 5 minutes video plugin is now ready. What is 5min:
5min is a place to find short video solutions for practical questions and a place for people to share their knowledge.
The idea behind 5min is very simple: [...]
March 1st, 2008 | Posted in Wordpress, Wordpress MU, plugin | 1 Comment
For a long time I wanted to be able to insert 5min.com videos on WordPress-Mu. Since their embedding code is not allowed on WPMU based system I have written a small plugin that will allow it. It will work on regular WP blogs as well. The plugin is still in testing but I will post [...]
February 27th, 2008 | Posted in Wordpress, Wordpress MU, blogging, plugin | 2 Comments
Using the WP-Super Cache plugin with WordPress-MU is very simple.
WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly.
Instructions on how to install the plugin can be [...]
January 17th, 2008 | Posted in WPMU tips, Wordpress, Wordpress MU, plugin | No Comments
In a new forum thread this week a WordPress MU user asked an old question: how to set the default timezone offset for new blogs? The solution proposed was to edit the wp-admin/includes/schema.php file (line 275). This of course should work but it involves in changing wpmu core files, an option I think is not [...]
December 21st, 2007 | Posted in WPMU tips, Wordpress MU, plugin | 1 Comment
After a little testing it seems that the Favicon Manager WordPress Plugin from Digital Ramble works just fine with WordPress-MU.
You are probably familiar with the default favicon that comes with WordPress-MU - . This plugin allows each user to set his own favicon via the Options page.
November 7th, 2007 | Posted in WPMU tips, Wordpress MU, plugin | 4 Comments
The GRavatar plugin works out of the mu-plugins directory and allows each blog user to enable it on his\her blog via the backend (under the presentation menu) we don’t want to force things on our users, do we?
There are reports that the GRavatar service slows down page loads so we will be adding a caching [...]
October 23rd, 2007 | Posted in Wordpress, Wordpress MU, plugin | 3 Comments
If you are running several installs of WordPress and\or WordPress-MU and want to have only one themes directory, the common-themes plugin might be the answer for you.
This plugin by zappoman allows you to set an absolute or relative path to a common themes directory.
October 17th, 2007 | Posted in WPMU tips, Wordpress, Wordpress MU, plugin | No Comments