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WordPress 3.2 removed the “Add New” button

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In WordPress there used to be a link to add a new post or page on the top of about every page.

Old add button

If you don’t have the menu bar added on the Dashboard you won’t see this button anymore. Luckily, there is a way to get it back in an even better way!

Simply go to Users->Your Profile. Where it reads “Show Admin Bar”. Check the box that says “in dashboard”. Then save your settings.

Settings page option preview

Once you add update your profile settings, you’ll see a new admin bar on the top of your dashboard.

Part of the new admin menu

See the new “Add New” link along with several other useful quick links used often.

WordPress 3.2 has been released!

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WordPress version 3.2 has finally been released with a plethora of great features.

You can see the official release note here: http://wordpress.org/news/2011/07/gershwin/

Here is a key snippet of text from the release note that you should keep in mind before upgrading:

Under the hood there have been a number of improvements, not the least of which is the streamlining enabled by our previously announced plan of retiring support for PHP4, older versions of MySQL, and legacy browsers like IE6, which allows us to take advantage of more features enabled by new technologies. The admin bar has a few more shortcuts to your most commonly-used actions. On the comment moderation screen, the new approve & reply feature speeds up your conversation management. You’ll notice in your first update after 3.2 that we’ll only be updating the files that have changed with each new release instead of every file in your WordPress installation, which makes updates significantly faster on all hosting platforms.

It is always a good idea to upgrade for security releases and better functionality and speed. As stated that PHP 4 and MySQL 4 and some web browsers are not longer supported, this is no reason not to upgrade, just make sure your server and web browser works before doing so.

Enjoy all the new features and the new look of the back-end!

List of all new features: http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.2

How to uninstall WordPress Multi-Site

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Here are the instructions for uninstalling multi-site on WordPress 3.0+:

  1. Remove the constants from the wp-config.php file. (Should look similar to this if you used my plugin)
    • /* This site was made multi-site enabled by @link http://jgwebdevelopment.com */
    • define (‘MULTISITE’, ’1′);
    • define (‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, false);
    • define (‘DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘localhost’);
    • define (‘PATH_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘/wp-multi/’);
    • define (‘SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1);
    • define (‘BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1);
    • $base = ‘/wp-multi/’;
  2. Delete the htaccess and let WP create a fresh single-site one.
    • You can have it create a new one by simply going to your permalink settings page and click save again.
  3. Remove the extra tables from the database. (The “wp_” will be replaced with whichever prefix you made during installation”)
    1. wp_blogs
    2. wp_blog_versions
    3. wp_registration_log
    4. wp_signups
    5. wp_site
    6. wp_sitemeta
  4. Remove the two extra fields added to the users table.
    1. spam
    2. deleted

!!!! If your Super Admin is Missing… READ THIS !!!!

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In WordPress 3.1, the “Super Admin” bar has been taken away for Multi-Site Networks.

Now in WordPress 3.1, when you create a Multi-Site Network, a “Network Admin” dashboard is now created.

In the “Network Admin” dashboard you will:

  • Enable/disable Network Plugins.
  • Create, Edit, Delete child sites.
  • Edit Site-Wide and Network Settings.

There is no longer a mixture of blog Dashboards and Network Settings.

To find the new “Network Admin Dashboard”, just locate the new link in the upper right corner of all blog dashboards. This new link is located next to the “Logout” link. See the image below.

Network Admin Dashboard Link Location 

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