Plugins

Just added two plugins to this site, which comes up with quite good.

The first one is Sociable, which is used to embed links to more than 60 social networking sites. Readers can easily click the configurable icons and bookmark in their favourite websites. The plugin is easily configurable through the Options -> Sociable, however, the drag-n-drop function seems causing javascript error.

Another plugin is the Google Analyticator, which simply add Google Analytics links to the header or footer to enable site traffic monitoring by Google Analytics. The plugin is not complicated, but really useful. The blog administrator no longer needs to add the javascript manually in every theme source.

It is the first time that I work on a plugin and really contribute to the WordPress World. It is really a good start.

With the help of Ronald Huereca, I learn how to use poEdit to localize wordpress component. What a great tool in translating, as easy as anyone knows how to use. As a return, I help to localize the Ajax Edit Comments Plugin to Traditional Chinese (my mother language)

Hope to do more on WordPress in the coming days, and I do also explore bbPress and see how to integrate them together. Combining both really provides a very good web solution.

To casify Wordpress mu, andrejciho provides a great solution to this making use of phpCAS 0.5.0.

Here are the instructions listed in his page, mainly:

1. Adding the phpCAS as a plugin to Wordpress
2. Customize the login / logout logic to use CAS Authentication
3. Change the Welcome message and email

These are done very well by walking through the instructions below:
http://www.andrejciho.com/wordpress-mu/wpmu-cas-integration/

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In order to search your wordpress blog in Google, you can add your site into Google Webmaster Tools. After that, to make the search better, you can create a sitemap.xml file in your site and let the Google spiders to read it. For me, Google reaches my sitemap.xml in just a few minutes after I submit.

To manually update this file is stupid, we need a plugin. Here, arne created the plugin. Go and see.

There is also a demo here by Andre.

This plugin is good. It supports both Wordpress and Wordpress Mu. Easy to install as other plugins, by just uploading the unzipped folder to your wp-contents/plugins folder.

Try it out.

Tried two plugins for WordPress MU today, but found they’re something not functioning.

One is the dTree - http://www.silpstream.com/blog/wp-dtree/

After installing it, even it works “like” a tree, but the image as shown in the developer’s website does not appear to me. Also, many layouts on using dTree should be designed by the blog owner by overwriting the theme PHP. It’s two troblesome, so I will not use it at the moment.

The other one is the MU-Admin Bar:

Someone said that this plugin helps to make a header on your blog when you’re logged in, but after I activated it, I totally see nothing changed.

After fighting a two-week battle on the WordPress versions, I finally chose to use WordPress MU as my own blog.

Mainly, WordPress MU provides with me the import/export functions, which to me, is very important so that I can move from one blog to another. If one day I would like to switch off, I can easily get my data from here.

However, the battle is quite hard since there are many constraints, including blocked network access in my company, limited documentation from WordPress MU.

Now, I’m mainly looking at the plugins and themes used in MU, since the settings are somehow different from WordPress Single version.

Some of the plugins I have used are:

• Plugman - http://wpmudev.org/project/Plugin-Manager
• Sidebar Widget - http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=799

More plugins I would like to look at and learn:

• Scriptaculous - http://www.silpstream.com/blog/wp-scriptaculous/
• dTree - http://www.silpstream.com/blog/wp-dtree/

For the themes, I guess it’s not that straigh-forward too, I have tried several theme, but seems the themes used in Single version is not fully compatible to MU version. I wonder what have to be changed when migrating the platform.

One example of the problem is that the page cannot appear on the header. Take a snapshot on my current page.

• MU Version - http://planner4u.org/wpmu/
• Single Version - http://planner4u.org/info/