By Brian Krogsgard on June 6, 2011
Ron and Andrea Rennick have had a busy spring building new plugins to rock your WordPress Multisite install. A few weeks ago they released a plugin called WPCurator, and just last week another called Custom Registration.
WPCurator is a plugin that mimmicks the functionality of sites like WordPress.com’s Freshly Pressed, EcoPressed, FoodPress, and PopPressed. A site administrator can push posts from across a network to the main blog to feature specific posts. The plugin automattically creates a post on the main blog that will redirect to the original url on click.
Custom Registration helps solve an issue in Multisite of registering users without redirecting to the parent site. Currently WordPress Multisite shares a singular userbase in networks, which makes managing users on subsites slightly more difficult. Custom Registration claims to help:
Easy to implement and customize to your situation, we’ve included page templates and some helper functions with our clear step-by-step instructions and plenty of screenshots. Registering new users on sub sites just got a whole lot easier.
Of course, being we’re talking about WP ebooks, each comes with a pdf with full instructions and resources. Both ebook / plugin combos are regularly $17.95.
As part of a summer promotion (or celebration of warmer Canadian weather?) Ron and Andrea are offering three discounts for any of their ebooks. You can get 10% off of two items, 15% off three, or 20% off four or more.
Have you tried either plugin? I personally gave WPCurator a kick of the tires with a review copy, and it appeared to work as advertised. Let us know your thoughts in the comments.
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By Brian Krogsgard on June 6, 2011
Ron and Andrea Rennick have had a busy spring building new plugins to rock your WordPress Multisite install. A few weeks ago they released a plugin called WPCurator, and just last week another called Custom Registration.
WPCurator is a plugin that mimmicks the functionality of sites like WordPress.com’s Freshly Pressed, EcoPressed, FoodPress, and PopPressed. A site administrator can push posts from across a network to the main blog to feature specific posts. The plugin automattically creates a post on the main blog that will redirect to the original url on click.
Custom Registration helps solve an issue in Multisite of registering users without redirecting to the parent site. Currently WordPress Multisite shares a singular userbase in networks, which makes managing users on subsites slightly more difficult. Custom Registration claims to help:
Easy to implement and customize to your situation, we’ve included page templates and some helper functions with our clear step-by-step instructions and plenty of screenshots. Registering new users on sub sites just got a whole lot easier.
Of course, being we’re talking about WP ebooks, each comes with a pdf with full instructions and resources. Both ebook / plugin combos are regularly $17.95.
As part of a summer promotion (or celebration of warmer Canadian weather?) Ron and Andrea are offering three discounts for any of their ebooks. You can get 10% off of two items, 15% off three, or 20% off four or more.
Have you tried either plugin? I personally gave WPCurator a kick of the tires with a review copy, and it appeared to work as advertised. Let us know your thoughts in the comments.
Posted in News | Tagged Plugins |
By Ryan Imel on June 6, 2011
Jeff Chandler first publicly hinted that he was interested in selling his WPTavern in a blog post last month called “Thanks for everything“. In it he described his difficulty making money with the site, his own personal troubles, and that he would be stepping away for a while.
Today, via the WPTavern account, Chandler shared further developments:
Happy to report that although I am not the owner of wptavern anymore, I will be staying onboard to maintain and operate the site.
WPTavern has been purchased in its entirety by an unnamed buyer for an unnamed amount. While that’s not too much information right now, Chandler did say that the site and podcast will continue to be maintained by him, with no other changes “for the foreseeable future“.
We haven’t noticed any changes to WPTavern yet, and haven’t the slightest idea who the new owner might be. Chandler says the current plan is for the new owner to stay silent for the time being. What do you folks think? Who is the most likely to have purchased WPTavern, and for how much?
You can read more about this change of hands in a blog post on WPTavern (but still no details on the new owner).
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By Ryan Imel on June 6, 2011
Justin Tadlock, co-author of Professional WordPress Plugin Development, has put out a call for help beta-testing the next version of his Members plugin. Members is a plugin that lets you create and edit roles, capabilities, and generally take advantage of the WordPress user system. It hasn’t seen a major update since 2009, but Tadlock wants to change that very soon with 0.2. In order to speed up development, Tadlock is asking for interested bet testers to stop by his blog and help him out.
Tadlock says the focus for 0.2 will be on improving current features and options, moreso than adding any new ones. He wants to update the plugin for the latest versions of WordPress as well. He also asks that beta testers not run the development version on any live sites, but only on testing sites until it is stable.
You an download the development version on Tadlock’s blog, and get in touch with him there to help out more. Do you use Members for managing user roles and capabilities on your site? If not, what plugin(s) do you use instead?
Posted in News | Tagged Plugins |
By Ryan Imel on June 6, 2011
Justin Tadlock, co-author of Professional WordPress Plugin Development, has put out a call for help beta-testing the next version of his Members plugin. Members is a plugin that lets you create and edit roles, capabilities, and generally take advantage of the WordPress user system. It hasn’t seen a major update since 2009, but Tadlock wants to change that very soon with 0.2. In order to speed up development, Tadlock is asking for interested bet testers to stop by his blog and help him out.
Tadlock says the focus for 0.2 will be on improving current features and options, moreso than adding any new ones. He wants to update the plugin for the latest versions of WordPress as well. He also asks that beta testers not run the development version on any live sites, but only on testing sites until it is stable.
You an download the development version on Tadlock’s blog, and get in touch with him there to help out more. Do you use Members for managing user roles and capabilities on your site? If not, what plugin(s) do you use instead?
Posted in News | Tagged Plugins |
