A very little-know and hidden feature in WordPress MU is the ability to add a customize page that is displayed when a blog is suspended or archived. Only Site Admins can archive or suspend a blog, and you can do this in the Site Admin -> Blogs menu. Hover over the blog in question and see the extra links. Deactivate, archive and spam are the ones you will use. Right now, there is no difference (code...

Yesterday, Donncha released WordPress MU version 2.9.2. 2.9.2 contains fixes for the major outstanding bugs in MU. Unless a security issue surfaces in either WordPress or WordPress MU, this is expected to be the last version of MU. Thanks Donncha  

As the merge comes closer, the forums are winding down. Most of the time, I’m only answering threads that I can do immediately without digging up additional info. That means I also repeat myself quite a bit. In the interest of making sure all those answers are in one place, here’s my cheat sheet. It’s in a text file on my desktop and I leave it open whenever I jump in the forums. More...

BuddyPress reached Release Candidate status this week. Get BP rc-1 over here (zip). Also, the new 2010 default theme has just hit the repo. Scroll down on that page and you’ll get the zip of the theme.  

Over the weekend, there was yet another awesome WordCamp over in Boston. I am still bummed we were unable to go. But! We followed along at home, and there was some great news. WPcares was launched during the event to raise money for Haiti. The original goal was $1,000. Last I checked, it was over $3,000 and this will be matched in donations from StudioPress RocketGenius iThemes Headway Themes WebDev...

I updated SharDB (Download) for WordPress MU 2.9.1.1 and added support for the comment meta table.