Category Archives: plugins

Doing Things with Tags in WPMu 1.3

Posted on January 14, 2008 by Reverend

I discovered two cool things today that have to do with WPMu and tags. First, that WPMu 1.3 (and WP 2.3 for that matter) comes with a stock widget for a tag cloud that doesn’t require a plugin or anything. … Continue reading →

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More on Upgrading to WPMu 1.3

Posted on January 9, 2008 by Reverend

As I already noted previously here, we have upgraded UMW Blogs to WPMu 1.3. Everything went smoothly on the surface, save for one rogue widget plugin I mentioned in the previous post. Well, as time goes on, other issues have … Continue reading →

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WordPress Rich Comments! Plugin

Posted on January 7, 2008 by Reverend

The Rich Comments! plugin is by no means essential, and the code is still in its infancy. But its one of those plugins that I dig because it is ajaxy, unneccessary, and maybe even irrational given that we still don’t … Continue reading →

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UMW Blogs Upgraded to WPMu 1.3

Posted on December 30, 2007 by Reverend

Well, it took long enough, but UMW Blogs is now running WordPress Multi-User version 1.3. We had to be a bit more careful with this upgrade because we are now supporting close to 800 blogs, so I actually took a … Continue reading →

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Yahoo! Powered Shortcuts Plugin

Posted on December 15, 2007 by Reverend

I’m not sure what to think about the new Yahoo! Shortcuts plugin that WordPress folks are blogging about. It seems to be a joint venture between WordPress and Yahoo! that scans your posts to recommend and create shortcut links to … Continue reading →

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One-Click Updater Plugin for WordPress

Posted on December 9, 2007 by Reverend

I posted recently about the OneClick Installer plugin that makes installing new plugins on your blog a cinch. One of the issues that this plugin has is that while it can install just about any plugin easily, it can not … Continue reading →

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One Blog, Many Feeds

Posted on December 6, 2007 by Reverend

Cole Camplese has had some excellent posts recently thinking about the ability of RSS feeds to connect a campus publishing community. I have been doing a lot of experimentation in this area over the last year or so, and his … Continue reading →

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Eighteenth-Century Audio: A WordPress Social Site?

Posted on December 6, 2007 by Reverend

A site that I have been working on with professor Marie McAllister in the English, Linguistics, and Speech department here at UMW has me extremely excited these days. And I decided to blog it early so that my co-workers don’t … Continue reading →

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A List of Plugins for WPMu

Posted on December 4, 2007 by Reverend

So what plugins are we using at UMW Blogs? Well, there is a two-part answer to this question: which site wide plugins (mu-plugins) are we using? and which user-activated plugins have we made available? Below you will find a list … Continue reading →

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