January 27, 2012

Super Cache and extra goodies

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

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 [...]

Updates for WordPress 3.3

I’ve updated the development version of both Domain Mapping and Sitewide Tags. The update to domain mapping has a few warnings fixed & addresses the issue of saving the settings in WP 3.3. The update to Sitewide tags has a few fixes. If you were having an issue with SWT adding duplicate categories, can you [...]

Multisite upload limit bug in 3.3

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

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. [...]

Proposed change for ms-files.php & image handling

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

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

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 [...]

Maintenance mode pluin for multisite

Joshua Parker, a long time user of multisite and its previous incarnation, WPMU, has released a plugin called WPMS Site Maintenance Mode This plugin allows a user admin on the network to put the entire install under maintenance mode or just selected sites. Haven’t given it a whirl yet, but it looks pretty useful.