mogita

NOTE: ONLY works with multisite (aka WordPress Network) mode for now.
A super-easy-to-use Multisite WordPress news broadcasting tool for the Super Admin of the Network.
This plugin can be helpful for the Super Admins to push a notification, some kind of messages, even some Ads if they like, to every site admins who registered under your Multisite WordPress network. The added widget will go to the first place of all widgets, unless the site admins move it elsewhere.
This is a very simple task but yet no plugins ever met my simple need, so I made one for myself, and hope it helps you too.
Key Features:
<ul>
<li>Add a widget to every site admin’s dashboard (by Super Admin only)</li>
<li>Support HTML content</li>
<li>Comes at the top of all widgets</li>
<li>Site admins can move or hide it as they wish</li>
<li>Multi languages support (available in English and Chinese till now)</li>
</ul>
You can find the configuration page at Manage Network -> Settings -> Dashbaord Broadcast.

Multisite Dashboard Broadcast

Place a widget on top of every site's dashboard under the same Multisite installation, containing whatever content the Super Admin writes.

oiler

Update at once all of the Settings -> General -> Time Zone options of your WordPress network.
This plugin was written specifically for a network that has been around for many years and was set up before WordPress 2.8 fixed the daylight savings time issue. Back then, setting the local time for your blog depended on UTC offsets only, so daylight savings folks were off by an hour for half a year. Then WordPress introduced time zones by city and the problem was solved. But we had all our blogs still with the UTC offset in use. So rather than update them individually, this plugin was written to run once and then move on. Recommended use: upload to your mu-plugins folder, run it once and then delete.

Update Time Zones Across Network

Automatically change the time zone for all of the blogs on your multisite network. Not for single installations. WPMU / Multisite / Network only.

Multisite Dashboard Broadcast vs Update Time Zones Across Network