February 4, 2012

Get some FREE themes from the $5 theme club

Small potatoes is crazy. Seriously. He’s giving away some $5 theme club memberships so site owners like myself can run whatever kind of contest we like. So here’s the deal – want a membership? Subscribe to my feed for this blog and leave me a comment. That’s it. I’ve got 50 accounts to give away [...]

Site of the Week: Wildlife Direct

To kick things off, I’d like to highlight a site that has impressed me for a long time, not only in content and format, but in useage. I first saw mention of it when the owner (?) posted a short question in the support forums. Wildlife Direct is a somewhat modfied version of WPMU that [...]

MU version 1.3.3 has object cache issues

Seems the latest version is a wee bit broken in the cache area. It’s an older problem that was previously fixed, but soemhow slipped through again. It happens. Check the trac ticket here on the issue and the fix here.

The things you can do with MU

For a couple weeks now, I’ve had an idea brewing in the back of my head. It came from seeing a whole pile of ugly MU-based sites, and occasionally a very nice well-designed one, or one with an incredibly innovative use. I thought it might benefit the community as a whole to showcase a really [...]

Sitewide search plugin released for MU

Jason has made the One Search WPMU plugin which searches across all blogs on your system. I haven’t tried it myself (yet), but if it delivers as promised, it could be quite the nice add-on.

Missing plugins folder and mu-plugins folder

If you’ve recently downloaded a newer version of MU, you may have noticed on a fresh install that the plugins folder and the mu-plugins folder are not there. Or, maybe you’ve seen them referenced, and finding them not where they are supposed to be, got horribly confused. No worries. There are not there because in [...]