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Enable and Disable Meta Boxes Sitewide on Dashboard, and post/page/link edit forms.

I needed to hide the “Custom Fields” or “Author” meta boxes, and I don’t want the primary and secondary dashboard feed meta boxes on any Dashboard.

Toggles the following in WPMU 2.7

• ‘Site Administrator Gets Limited Meta Boxes?’,
• ‘Post Publish’,
• ‘Post Tags’,
• ‘Post Categories’,
• ‘Post Excerpt’,
• ‘Post Send Trackbacks’,
• ‘Post Custom Fields’,
• ‘Post Discussion’,
• ‘Post Slug’,
• ‘Post Author’,
• ‘Post Revisions’,
• ‘Page Publish’,
• ‘Page Attributes’,
• ‘Page Custom Fields’,
• ‘Page Discussion’,
• ‘Page Slug’,
• ‘Page Author’,
• ‘Page Revisions’,
• ‘Link Save’,
• ‘Link Categories’,
• ‘Link Target’,
• ‘Link Relationship (XFN)’,
• ‘Link Advanced’,
• ‘Dashboard Primary’,
• ‘Dashboard Secondary’,
• ‘Dashboard Recent Drafts’,
• ‘Dashboard QuickPress’,
• ‘Dashboard Plugins’,
• ‘Dashboard Incoming Links’,
• ‘Dashboard Recent Comments’,
• ‘Dashboard Right Now’,

Installation:
Drop into mu-plugins.
Visit SiteAdmin–>Options to enable/disable meta boxes: Meta Boxes (Enable or disable WP Backend Meta Boxes)

Notes:
All options are stored in the existing “menu_perms” site_option array.

Meta box functions are effectively removed, but Quick Edit functions are untouched.

Example, removing the Post Categories meta box will stop users from editing categories while editing a post in the edit-form-advanced, but Quick Edit will still allow the Post Categories to be changed.

I’d like a toggle to remove inputs from the Quick Edit forms(author especially) but that’ll wait for another day.

Download

Sitewide Featured User Widget

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 from 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

New blogs await a final click from a Site Admin to Activate. Keep blog registration enabled and open, keep SiteAdmin email notices enabled, and this keeps new blogs queued in SiteAdmin–>Blogs “Awaiting Moderation”.

First, enable “New Blog Moderation” at Site Admin–>Options. Then, SiteAdmin–>Blogs: New blogs have activation link “Awaiting Moderation”.

Install: drop it mu plugins.

Download: http://wpmudev.org/project/Moderate-New-Blogs

Pluginspiration: IndieLab