Either that or I forgot to take notes. New & updated Plugins: Zazzle store helper Limit blogs per user (updated) Add users to blog sidebar widget (updated) New Premium plugins: Communities Friends Messaging And if you’re a student and pretty darn lucky, you can apply to the Google Summer of...

Creating a reusable widget requires a bit more code than a one time use widget. I’ll walk you through the code that you need to add/change to make a widget reusable. A term that I’m going to use in the tutorial is instance. If you add 5 of this widget to your sidebars, then you have 5 instances...

So, you have WordPress MU all set up and running and you’re in the final tweaking stage. You suddenly realize that maybe the default dashboard is going to confuse the heck out of your users – what to do? Well, you could block their access to the dashboard and redirect them somewhere else,...

And now for some WordPress MU news from around and about. Plugins: Nifty plugin showed up at WPMUDev.org – Add promotional blogs via a CSV file. Paypal subscription plugin This is only different from the one offered at the Premium site in the fact that it adds an affiliate level. So if someone...

Ealrier this morning, I noticed on my main WPMU-driven site that a few more sneaky spam comments were getting in. I set about to edit my simple spam filter in mu-plugins, directly on the server. I quickly added a couple phrases and went on my way. Fast forward to lunch. My VPS is down. Not just Apache,...

After a few months of planning, I am very pleased to announce the launch of musupport.net, a paid support forum for Wordpress mu. This way, I can continue to help as many people as possible, and probably more than some of the one-on-one I have been doing. To that end, we’ve launched with a fantabulous...

Earlier this week, someone contacted us through our contact page and gave a brief description of what he/she was looking to do with his/her site. Here is part of that description: ….concerning my website mydomain.com I would like to cut it in N subdomains by category…. The contact email did...

I wanted to post a little hat tip to Andrea. Today, I’ve been keeping an eye on the download numbers for Installing WordPressMu – The E-Book. I checked a few minutes ago and it was 3001 downloads. In addition to hitting the 3000 mark, we’ve had good feedback on the e-book from quite...

A while back we had a guest post from WordPress Modder on how to parse (display) a feed anywhere in a template. Since then, WP & WPMU 2.7 have rolled in a new function to handle this with a lot less code. Just put the following anywhere in the template: <?php include_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . '/rss.php'); wp_rss('http://example.com/rss/feed/goes/here',...

The fantabulous Barry (from ClearSkys) whipped up a little plugin to remove remote calls to update servers, and if you’re working locally and offline, those calls will slow you down to an agonizing crawl. So, enter a quickie. See here for details: How to: remove remote calls in WordPress MU  ...