WordPress MU plugin contest — vote now!

First published on October 5, 2008

October 13, 2008 update: thanks to everybody for voting and thanks to WPMU.org for organizing this contest! The winners have been announced.

WPMU.org is holding a WordPress MU plugin contest, closing on October 10. For those who are familiar with WordPress but not WordPress MU, “MU” stands for “multi-user” but a more appropriate name would be “multi-instance” — it enables you to run multiple WordPress blogs on the same WordPress installation. This makes maintenance, administration, and integration between blogs a lot better and easier than installing WordPress multiple times.

Anyway, I have an entry in the contest, which is my collaboration e-mails plugin for WordPress MU. In a nutshell, when someone submits a post to be reviewed, the plugin e-mails a list of editors that you can define, based on the post category or the author. It should be quite useful if you have a blog where you want posts to be reviewed before they are published.

I would certainly appreciate your votes — please vote here! (The “Collaboration E-mails” plugin is the 6th from the bottom.)

Thanks!

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If you are interested, here is a list of some other plugins I have developed for WordPress:

Login Redirect: Redirect different users to different pages when they log in.
After-Comment Redirect: Specify a page that should be loaded after people submit comments.
Shorten URLs in Posts: If you or someone else on your blog is prone to posting long URLs that run off the page, this plugin automatically shortens those URLs.
Disable HTML in Comments: If your commenters often write code snippets in your comments, make sure that they are displayed literally instead of being interpreted as HTML.
Date Countdown: Display a list of important events and how much time remains until each event.
Custom Anti-Spam Image: This generates a word image that people have to enter before they can comment, thus stopping a lot of automatically-generated comment spam. I’ve also created random and math versions.
Blog URL Shortcodes: Use code like [blogurl] and [post id=3] to generate internal URLs in your posts, so that you won’t have to worry about changing domains or URL structures in the future.
File Change Notifications: This doesn’t plug directly into the WordPress plugin system, but is useful for security purposes if you want to be e-mailed whenever a file in your blog directory is modified or added.
Post Notes: Add notes on the “edit post” screen’s sidebar in WordPress 2.7 and up. Works well with the collaboration e-mails plugin so that administrators and contributors can share comments about pending posts.
Case Insensitive Usernames: Allow users to log in with case insensitive usernames. For example, if their username is “Peter”, they can log in with “peter” or “pEtEr”.