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Sitewide Featured User Widget

dsader — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:33:40 +0000

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

Wysiwyg Print

dsader — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:26:53 +0000

For one or two themes, media=print code is easy enough to add to the header.php, but why do that in MU? Most theme authors pay no attention to an extra stylesheet for printing a theme. This plugin will make printing from WP themes much more enjoyable. Doesn’t make every theme look good, but many print very nicely. Must be a wp_head hook in theme’s header. (Browsers have options for enabling printing of background images).

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Userthemes Revisited

dsader — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:26:28 +0000

I’ve tinkered with the original a bit, again.

Adds ability for enabled users to move system themes to their file blogs.dir/id/themes/ folder and edit their themes if you allow access to the theme editor. Access Managed via Site Admin.

Practical uses for me: I can edit themes as I am accustomed in my single WP install. I can switch between specialty themes without logging in as a SiteAdmin.

If a particular user wants a unique/rare/premium theme, I can upload it to their blogs.dir/blog_id/themes folder and only they can ever see/edit/activate it.

Warning: enabling the theme editor is a huge risk/responsibility.

This plugin does not magically enable or secure it. You’ll have to consider that yourself.

Install: drop into mu-plugins folder and visit the new SiteAdmin–>Userthemes menu.

July 15/08 Tweaked version looks more like WPMU2.6. “Guessing” the Screenshot-dir is buggy in 2.5 and lower. Minor edits needed to use this in a version less than 2.6.(Any version not defining WP_CONTENT_DIR and WP_CONTENT_URL)

July 30/08 Add SiteOptions to management page:

Maximum Userthemes per blog.
hide original Themes menu.
choose number items per page.

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Sitewide Multi Widget

dsader — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:23:08 +0000

Sitewide “three-in-one” Multi Widget Panel

Choose the blog ID to feature from the widget control panel, by default it will use Donncha’s Sitewide Tags Pages(‘tags_blog_id’) if installed. Blog_id is matched against existing public blogs.
Checkboxes to enable(and title) each sub-widget within the multi-widget control
Sitewide Tag Cloud
- default(no options) for now
Sitewide Recent Posts
- Display 0-10 most recent posts
  - full post, post excerpt, no post content
  - titles
  - author
  - date
  - comment link
  - post category
  - post tags
  - avatars(any size 8-80 px)
- Filtered by Sitewide Tags(comma separated list)
- Filtered by Sitewide Categories
Sitewide Archives
- daily
- weekly
- monthly
- yearly
Download: http://wpmudev.org/project/Sitewide-Multi-Widget

Installation Notes: You’ll want Donncha’s Sitewide Tags Pages(v 0.2) installed and running for a while (to generate posts in the tags blog). I have not tested this widget with any other sitewide tags-type aggregation, but user can substitute any existing public blog id if the ‘tags_blog_id’ doesn’t exist. Sitewide “three-in-one” Multi Widget Panel is a widget so put it with he rest of your wpmu widgets. Designed/tested for WPMU2.6.

Notes:
This widget uses a “switch_to_blog”–>”restore_current_blog” and a new query object($query = new WP_Query($query_string);) to retrieve posts from the Tags blog(or multple blogs). All options are stored as a single widget option array. I figure the cpu/numqueries load is abated somewhat by having all sub-widgets in the same panel.

Support to pull from multiple “featured blogs” by editing one line of code(“clones” the widget output while applying the same widget control options to each clone):
`$featured_blogs = array($options['blog_id']); // Clone multiple panel outputs such as …
// $featured_blogs = array($options['blog_id'],3,354);`
(inspired by http://dailytestimony.net/plugins/)

Although WPMU 2.6 adds a “get_id_from_blogname();” function – which satisfies vhost and nonvhost installs – to make switching blogs in widget control simpler, it needs also a get_blogname_from_id(); to echo a blogname(where blogname is “blogname.domain.org” or “domain.org/blogname/”).

Usage note: using this widget in the sidebar of the actual tags blog will work, but it’s overkill as the usual widgets on the tags blog work in the usual ways(ie. recent posts, tag cloud, and categories are all transformed into sitewide widgets when using Donncha’s Sitewide Tags blog).

TODO: if($tags_blog_id != $current_blog_id) switch_to_blog();

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Sitewide Extended Categories Widget

dsader — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:22:41 +0000

Original Author: Peter van der Does
Original Author URI: http://blog.avirtualhome.com/
Original Plugin URI: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/extended-categories-widget/

Choose the Blog ID to feature its categories, by default it will use Donncha’s Sitewide Tags Pages(‘tags_blog_id’) if installed. Blog_id is matched against existing public blogs. Widget Control Options:

How many Sitewide Extended Categories Widgets would you like? 1-10
Blog ID
Title
Show post counts
Show hierarchy
Hide empty categories
Sort by ID, name, or count
Display style: list or dropdown
Include All Sitewide Categories, or
Include These Sitewide Categories

Notes:
This widget uses a “switch_to_blog”–>”restore_current_blog” to retrieve categories from the Tags blog(or other blog).

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