When I first had the idea for this widget, it was because my mom asked for it. I had set her up with her own blog, and since she is new to blogging in general (but not computers thankfully), the only thing she had trouble doing was something a lot of new users struggle with. [...]
More news, week of Feb 20th 2009
February 20, 2009 By
I’m thinking I should start making this a regular weekly feature. Sheesh, you guys have been busy this week, and it’s not over yet. First up, Phil the Frumph over at WebComicPlanet has integrated php free chat into WPMU. Cool beans, I tried it out. And someone from the forums has been hiding their great [...]
Small Optimization
February 16, 2009 By
If you have been running WorPress MU for a while, you may not have seen some of the recent additions to values defined in wp-config.php. For single site WPMU installs, as of 2.6.1, you can save a couple of database and/or internal cache lookups by adding 3 defines to your wp-config.php: define(‘DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘domain.tld’ ); define(‘PATH_CURRENT_SITE’, [...]
Nuggets of news
February 11, 2009 By
First off, BuddyPress is in RC-1. Could be a good Valentine’s Day present coming out. Buried within that announcement post is this gem: Over the next few weeks there will be work done to add integrated support for site-wide plugins in WordPress MU. Site-wide plugin support will provide the ability for plugins to be activated [...]
Custom branded login screen for WPMU
February 9, 2009 By
I first visited this topic last year, but just gave a quick overview of a plugin you can edit. Since the process is a wee bit different in 2.7, I thought I’d just go ahead and release a quick plugin for you to play with. Grab the zip here Custom Login (2984), unzip it in [...]
Stuff to mull over
February 5, 2009 By
In case you haven’t seen it yet, James has written up a very interesting post over at wpmu.org about Edublog’s financial model. Lots of goodies, and they’ve now released a plugin called Supporters over at the Premium side. To make it even more interesting, a discussion has started in the comments over whether the Premuim [...]
