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 also uses...

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 have to thank both...

A few weeks ago, Frumph launched SocialPress as an informal project offering lightweight alternative plugins to BuddyPress. Alternatives are always nice. My initial offering for SocialPress is a plugin which blends signup options by allowing only user signups, but logged in users can create blogs. The...

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....

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 it enabled but still don’t...

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...

.. at least the ones I tend to use the most often. Depending on the site, I may use a different combination of plugins, as not all site need all the same plugins, but there are a few I use consistently. I’ve limited this post to just plugins that Site Admins use or need – not ones users...

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...

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...

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...