In today’s post, I go over the types of hosting available and break them down so you can make the right choice for you and your setup. Before we get into the nitty-gritty, the biggest point I want to make is make sure you get a Linux-based hosting package. WPMU runs under Apache and it [...]
Pardon the dust
April 27, 2009 By
Over the weekend, a small group of people on twitter got the see a preview of the new WPMUtutorials redesign. The new theme (if you pop on in from RSS) is from Elegant Themes, a premium theme club. I happened to win a free year’s membership in a contest over at WP Zoom, and I [...]
2.7.1 released, and an overview
April 21, 2009 By
WordPressMU 2.7.1 has just been released, and with it a few interesting new features. First off, in the Site Admin -> Options menu, you can now choose to have new subscribers with no blog, get attached to a specific blog. They have been attached to the main blog, but some people have found that unwieldy. [...]
Blogs menu
April 21, 2009 By
A month or two ago someone mentioned to me that they left the WPMU Admin bar enabled because it gave users with multiple blogs links to the admin area of each their blogs. I personally don’t use the admin bar and turn it off on any of my blogs. On a client site I leave [...]
Donncha’s Domain Mapping plugin
April 17, 2009 By
One often requested feature is the ability to put a domain name on a sub-blog. Most people are unsure of what to call it, so I’ll tell you – domain mapping. While there has been a few ways to approach this in the past, it’s now easier with Donncha’s WordPressMU Domain Mapping plugin. It also [...]
Two things
April 5, 2009 By
First up, Donncha has some advice for those of you writing plugins. He makes a very timely point here: As a user of Free Software, you already know that “Free” doesn’t mean “Free as in beer”, it’s “Free as in speech”. If you know anything about software development help plugin authors by looking over their [...]
New plugins, and BuddyPress alerts
April 3, 2009 By
Edit so important it goes up top: Apparently we haven’t been watching trac enough. WPMU 2.7.1-beta1 is out. New plugin releases for the week: Posts and Comment growth “This plug-in is a reporting tools for site administrators in WordPress MU. It generates a histrogram graph of posts and comments population in the system. Google Data [...]
Integrating BBPress with Buddypress and WordPressMU
April 1, 2009 By
I thought I’d highlight a recent tutorials from Trent on how to integrate bbpress with BuddyPress. Party because it’s good, and also it’s current. While there are other good posts about this integrations, Trent’s is timely. Because you’re essentially trying to fiddle with three pieces of software, two of them picky, it’s essential you have [...]
