My palz Mikhail and Luke over at Blogs@Baruch needed an easier way to add users to sites in the WordPress network. They’d been using DDImportUsers, which worked, but was finicky: DDIU required you to specify too much information, its formatting was tough for instructors to understand, and, most importantly, it didn’t deal well with existing [...]
Alex King’s Popularity Contest is a pretty cool way to collect data about which posts on a WordPress site the most popular. The data collected is more sophisticated and customizable than simple analytics, because it distinguishes between page views and things like trackbacks, comments, and other kinds of hits. The plugin supports WordPress Multisite in [...]
The Anthologize team has been hard at work over the last week, fixing bugs behind some of the most commonly reported problems, and adding features to make Anthologizing easier and more fun. We’ve just tagged version 0.4-alpha in the WordPress repository. Visit your WordPress Dashboard’s Plugins page to upgrade. Read more about the changes in [...]
WordPress 3.0′s custom post types are really cool, opening up a whole new world of use cases for WordPress. We used custom post types extensively when developing Anthologize. But there are still some rough spots. For instance, the ‘show_ui’ parameter of register_post_type() is a little bit too coarse-grained for our purposes. For Anthologize, we wanted [...]
The moment has arrived! The product of One Week | One Tool, a one week digital humanities tool barn raising hosted by CHNM and sponsored by the NEH Office of Digital Humanities, is Anthologize. Anthologize is a WordPress plugin that lets you collect and curate content, organize and edit it into a form that works [...]
Anthologize allows you to collect, organize, edit, and export your WordPress content into a book. Anthologize is populated with the content of your blog – the posts and pages that you’ve written in WordPress. You can also use Anthologize’s content importer to get content from RSS feeds. Once you’ve got your content, organize it into [...]
Back when Ning announced that it’d be cutting off previously free accounts, I took a weekend and developed Import From Ning, a plugin that helped users pull their Ning user and profile data into a WordPress or BuddyPress installation. It was my own little BuddyPress-fanboyish way of helping all those Ningsters. Several weeks ago, Ning [...]
Some friends of mine (Joe Ugoretz and Jim Groom) were chatting on Twitter yesterday about how Userthemes, the WPMU/MS plugin they rely on to allow user customizations of copied system themes, had broken with WordPress 3.0. I decided to take a look at it. After digging a little, I found the immediate cause, as well [...]
On the CUNY Academic Commons we have a MediaWiki installation running parallel to our WordPress/BuddyPress installation. In the past I had hacked together an inelegant and constantly breaking solution for importing wiki edit notifications into the BP activity stream. I’ve just written a small plugin called BP External Activity which solves the problem by using [...]
BP External Activity allows admins to import data from an arbitrary RSS feed into their BuddyPress sitewide activity stream. For example, you might use the plugin to add activity items for edits on a MediaWiki installation. The plugin imports RSS feeds every hour. You may find that you need to decrease your Simplepie cache time [...]