WordPress Mu development

Although WordPress is open source and you can easy check and analyze the code you need more information than that when you are creating your own plugins, themes or hacks.

Thats why I put some links together to help you getting there faster.  They sure helped me. There is lots of information out there, but some times is really hard to find what you really need.

I will start with a site where everybody starts, tons of good tutorials and examples from beginners to more advance, essential information about creating  a wordpress a plugin, theme etc… (Ofiicial also)

http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPressMU

This site contains good information about hooks, filters and actions

http://wphooks.flatearth.org/

This site contains a good tuturial on how to create your own plugin

http://ditio.net/2007/08/09/how-to-create-wordpress-plugin-from-a-scratch/

Most Active Blogs plug in

Recently I developed a wordpress Mu called “Most Active Blogs”, this plugin is used as a widget, will appear in your dynamic side bars and enables you to show the most active blogs on your site, includes a link to the blog and the number of Blogs Posts for each blog.

Copy the code below and save it has most ActiveBlogs.php

To install it drop it in your wp mu plugins if yuo want to make this plugin available to your site or drop it in the plugins folder and activate it thru your plugins option on the backend.

If you have any question just send me an email.

Here is the link to download:

http://wpmudev.org/project/most-active-blogs

NOTE:

If your install of wordpress MU is working with sub-directories, change line 90 by this one:

echo ‘<li><a href=”http://’.$blog['domain']

.$blog['path'].’”>’.$blogname.’&nbsp;-&nbsp;’.$blog['postcount'].’
posts</a></li>’;

This fix is kindly provided by Stephen Collins

My printer friendly widget for WordPress and WordPress MU

Hi ,

I have developed a small widget for WP and WP MU, its called printeme and it enables  readers to preview the print css version of the page their at, like  printer friendly that you see almost in every media article.

You are able to edit the text to be shown, default is Printer friendly,  you can call it what ever you want   you can also choose for the printer icon to be shown.

Althoug the installation is very simple and following the standard plugin instalation, you still need to tweak the header of the template with a small php code.

All this is included in a small text readme first file.

If you are interested in this plug in I can make it available for download.