My profile on WordPress.org has almost 30 plugins listed. I wrote (or contributed to) some of these to fill a vacancy (at the time) in basic functionality available in the community. There are others that I wrote as part of a development project. There are several that we have never used on our sites. Over [...]
Super Cache and extra goodies
January 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Donncha has updated WP Super Cache again and has quite a long post about it. One thing that stood out for me is that if you are using it in multisite you can disable specific blogs from being cached. Whoa. Nice one!
How to make a theme demo site
January 5, 2012 By 6 Comments
One thing I get asked occasionally, which is really easy to do, is how do you make a theme demo site? Maybe you’re getting into the premium theme business (jump in, just do something different ), maybe you have a bunch of pro / developer packages and just want a white label site for your [...]
Multisite upload limit bug in 3.3
December 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Turns out there’s a wee bug in multisite in 3.3 with the upload limits. If you;re limiting upload space on user’s sites, it gets stuck at 50mb. Patch is here in the meantime.
Multisite in the wild
December 13, 2011 By 8 Comments
How many multisite installs are out there, anyway? In a recent forum post unrelated to multisite but using those numbers for comparison, Jane gave some numbers: We can’t really get very accurate stats, because we only know about *installs* that phone home, not number of users on each one who might need the multisite menus. [...]
Where do people sign up in multisite?
November 18, 2011 By 1 Comment
I’ve been asked this a few times, as it is not obvious from the admin area where users are supposed to go to sign up – either for a user or a new site in multisite. You can change the registration settings under Network Admin -> Settings. For members of the public, direct to them [...]
Proposed change for ms-files.php & image handling
November 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
This trac ticket has been tagged for 3.4 which is quite a while away from happening. Basically, the current way multisite handles images on the sub sites, is by running every request through a file called ms-files.php. This can actually be overridden via the sunrise.php file. The proposed change would involve moving new sub site [...]
VaultPress now for multisite
November 14, 2011 By 2 Comments
Over the weekend I noticed a page go up on the Vaultpress site for multisite instructions. Today, the official announcement came out for Vaultpress multisite support. Interestingly enough is the pricing model: each sub site needs its own license. On a network with a huge number of sites this could be quite financially limiting. But [...]
What we did at camp
November 9, 2011 By 2 Comments
Last weekend, Ron and I did a joint session and workshop at WordCamp Toronto. Our first session was a soft intro to multisite highlighting how we got into it, how ti developed, and what we use it for. Then we highlighted how other people use it. You can see the slides below. WordPress and Multisite [...]
