I’m working on moving my photography website at richardxthripp.thripp.com over to the thripp.com network, so I have to make a few changes to accomodate the features I use over there. Plugins have been moved to a sub-menu, Manage > PLUGINS, since I’m using Plugin Commander’s permissions system and that’s what it does.
So for now, you can’t use the time zone tool that appeared under the old top-level Plugins menu, which I blogged here. You can still change it by clicking “Settings.” I also put the drop-down CSS menus in the admin section under user control, which you can de-activate (if you wish) under the same menu (Manage > PLUGINS). If you run into any problems with it, try turning it off.
I removed the Twitter Tools plugin, since it doesn’t work with Wordpress MU (tried it myself, everything works but it wouldn’t pick up my Twitter tweets). Also, the Advanced Category Excluder plugin is gone for now, since it doesn’t work right. Sorry for that. No one tried to use either, anyway.
I made a fix to WP-o-Matic. If you have it activated, it won’t let you access the plugins menu or its menus in Internet Explorer. I just commented out these lines in the code:
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) && (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], ‘MSIE’) !== false))
die(’Please switch to Firefox / Safari’);
It works fine in Internet Explorer, so I don’t know the reason the exclude IE users. I took out the “Browse Happy” plug that appears in the administrative section by default in Wordpress MU (read here). I don’t get this discrimination against Internet Explorer, or software that forces that attitude on us. How is that any better than Microsoft trying to force Internet Explorer on us?
