Duh! Hit “Network Deactivate” in the Network Admin, right? Yeah…. Next time, think twice before you Network Activate a WordPress plugin. It’s not too easy to deactivate it, while keeping it activated on blogs that actually use it. I wrote a little CLI script to activate a plugin of your choice on all blogs in a network: define( 'ABSPATH', '/path/to/wordpress/' ); require(...
The Jetpack Carousel
Galleries on self-hosted WordPress blogs have just become more awesome. The latest update to Jetpack brings the Carousel — a full-screen experience for your image galleries. I absolutely love how the carousel works with already existing galleries, doesn’t need its own shortcode or anything, and integrates well into the existing Settings – Media section. By the way, these photos...
Bulk User Management in WordPress Multisite
The WordPress.com VIP team has launched a new plugin called Bulk User Management, which is very useful if you’re running Multisite with more than a couple of sites in the network, and more than one user. Bulk User Management gives you an overview of all your network users, and their roles on the different sites. It allows you to bulk edit the users and easily give them a role on new sites...
Otto on WordPress Updates
You should update any and all plugins immediately when there is an update available, period. If the plugin author has a habit of introducing new versions with bugs, then you should stop using that plugin and find a different one instead. I do not see it as a good idea to introduce anything which even remotely suggests that it is okay to not update. It is not okay. Update. Immediately. Always...
Plugin Licenses, Upsells and Add-Ons
Mika shared some interesting thoughts about Plugin Licenses, Upsells and Add-Ons. Take a look at the comments too, where Otto explains some of his ideas on using basic WordPress actions and filtres to activate/deactivate pro and free features.
Helping WordPress Developers Develop
The brand new Developer Plugin has been revealed last night on the WordPress.com VIP blog. It’s a gate to some awesome developer tools and plugins for WordPress, including Debug Bar, Debug Bar Cron, Rewrite Rules Inspector and a bunch of others. Obviously more developer tools will be added with new releases.
Sideload Media from Dropbox to WordPress
If you use Dropbox to store photos, Otto’s new Dropbox Photo Sideloader plugin allows you to sideload those photos into your WordPress Media Library.
Hello, Jetpack Comments!
I always loved how commenting was over at WordPress.com, and the new Jetpack Comments brings all that fun stuff to WordPress.org blogs. Many of us have been waiting for this, and as announced by Tim Moore yesterday, Jetpack Comments are available as of version 1.4, along with some bug fixes. You should see an update available from your WordPress dashboard, and if you don’t, you can always...
Facebook for WordPress
Facebook has just announced their official WordPress plugin on the Developers blog. You can get the plugin for free from the WordPress.org plugins directory, and don’t forget to rate it too!
How to Remove Default Widgets from WordPress
“How do I remove the default widgets that come with WordPress?” — I heard this at least five times in the last two months. The solution is to use the Remove Default Widgets plugin that I wrote earlier this year. It’s better than using unregister_widget for each registered widget in your functions.php file (or wherever), because a new version of WordPress might ship with a...