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Toggle Meta Boxes Sitewide

dsader — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 06:43:48 +0000

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.

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Sitewide Featured User Widget

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

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

Moderate New Blogs

dsader — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 09:58:14 +0000

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

Sitewide Comment Tracking Revisited

dsader — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:15:37 +0000

Useful for tracking comments by community users with output visible in:
Dashboard–>Comments–>My Comments.

Plugin enhancements:

(see Competition eligibility note below)

WPMU 2.6 style
Avatars
Recent post excerpt display
“My Comment” listed first, follwed by most recent reply by someone else.
Message display for archived/deleted/spam blogs; deleted/unpublished posts, approved/moderated/spam/deleted comments – hence …
“Dismiss” link to stop tracking each post
Paged display table
Re-definable constants(in code) to modify array outputs.

MY_COMMENTS_TRACKED = `if (count($LatestCommentsList) > MY_COMMENTS_TRACKED) { unset($LatestCommentsList[0]); …}` during a comment save a blog_id, post_id pair is entered into usermeta->LatestComments, the total counted and when the array exceeds limit, the oldest pair is deleted = 100
MY_POSTS_APAGE = more posts per page = increased work for CPU = 10
MY_COMMENTS_APOST = more comments per post = increased work for CPU = 1
OTHERS_COMMENTS_APOST = 1
POST_EXCERPT_LENGTH =`$post_output = wp_html_excerpt($post_output, POST_EXCERPT_LENGTH);` 400 chars
COMMENT_EXCERPT_LENGTH = 250

Performance notes: tested on a small WPMU install(>200 blogs). I have not seen how this version performs “maxed out” on my own install yet. I do not know how this plugin performs in a large install. An array of “Blog_id, post_id” pairs are stored in usermeta->LatestComments to a defined maximum, called then sliced by page number, looped to retrieve posts, then each post looped to retrieve comments – “My Comments” and “Other comments”. The bottom of the My Comments page has a numqueries count, FYI(if SiteAdmin). Redefining the MY_POSTS_APAGE constant can throttle the page.

Known Bugs: redefining the MY_COMMENTS_TRACKED constant to a lower limit after users have “maxed out” the previous limit will only unset one comment after each comment submit(”update_usermeta(…)”) thereafter. Such users will continue to exceed MY_COMMENTS_TRACKED Limit until they “dismiss” enough comments to be below the newly defined limit.

Install Notes: drop in mu-plugin, monitor performace/cpu load as “usermeta->LatestComments” data fills with each user comment submitted to defined maximum(MY_COMMENTS_TRACKED). I have not tested this revised version under heavy load. Happy testing!

Competition eligibility note: this plugin is a significantly revised/enhanced/twisted version of WPMU-User-Comment-Tracking-and-DisplayThis work is Copyright GNU GPL You and Your Loved Ones. And: – Xiando (Oyvind Sather), who originally wrote it – And D. Sader - and is intended to add similar functionality(with a few twists) as Matt’s popular wordpress.com My Comments feature. On that basis, I’d accept a decision by the judges to exclude this plugin from the contest.

Download: http://wpmudev.org/project/Sitewide-Comment-Tracking-Revisited

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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