February 4, 2012

Where to find error logs

Error logs play an important part in determining what is going on with your setup. Sometimes errors are surpressed from screen viewing, so the results are stored in a file. The system itself will write to an error log in the root folder. That is the first file you should check. The file is named [...]

Database structure

WordPressMU creates the following tables upon installation: wp_1_categories wp_1_comments wp_1_link2cat wp_1_links wp_1_options wp_1_post2cat wp_1_postmeta wp_1_posts wp_blogs wp_blog_versions wp_registration_log wp_signups wp_site wp_sitecategories wp_sitemeta wp_usermeta wp_users A quick read will show that all table with the prefix wp_1_ will be associated to the blog with id #1. When a second blog is added to the system, those [...]

Admin panel screenshots

Many people just want to see what’s on the menu before installation, so here’s some screenshots specifically dealing with the site Admin menu. Most other menus are exactly like the stand-alone version of WordPress. (I’ll get to the exceptions later.) The Site Admin index Blogs Control blogs. Users Control users. Themes Enable or disable themes [...]

Deleting blogs

The question of deleting blogs comes up frequently. What happens when a user deletes their blog? A site admin? When do you a delete a user’s blog? Well, the answer is- it depends. When a user chooses to delete their blog, they are asked to confirm. This doesn’t really delete it from the database, rather [...]

Got questions? We’ll try and answer

If you’ve stumbled your way here, I’m looking for reader feedback. If you’ve got questions about wordpressmu and can’t seem to find the answer, I’ll try and help. The only caveat is, I’ll stick to the distributed codebase. I can point out, however, if you need a plugin or not and where to find it [...]