In October 2008, CommentLuv won first place in the WPMU plugin contest. The beta test for the WP/WPMU 2.7 version of the plugin begins tomorrow. The beta test will involve a limited number of blogs including WPMU Tutorials. If you want a preview of what a commenter will see with the new version, have...

I’m following along the live-blogging and tweeting, and in Matt’s state of the word address, he announced that Wordpress.org and WPMU will be merging. When? No idea, but apparently he also stated “watch out for version 3.0″.  

So you want WordPressMU in a specific language? The process is pretty much the same as in single Wordpress. You’ll need a translation file in your specific language. Most of these have been created already and are on that page. Please feel free to add links to specific WPMU-based translation files...

Note: This is for developer testing only. Do not put it on a live install. Donncha has finished rolling in the WP 2.8 code. He’s also looking for folks to test an object cache plugin. You can download the dev/test version of MU here. Thanks D.  

The purpose of the DNS (Domain Name Server) system is to give client computers a means of translating host names (ex. wpmututorials.com) into IP (Internet Protocol) addresses. In a typical day of working my browser(s) submits hundred of queries to my DNS servers to get the IP address of the web sites...

Want to install WordPressMU locally on your Mac? Nettuts has a tut, naturally. I don’t have a mac, sadly.  

Kristarella has a great post on How to move wordpressmu.  

D’Arcy Norman has figured out a quick htaccess method to stop those sploggers from doing their automated signups. Head on over to his blog for the details.  

A hat tip to both Illutic & Kim who nominated both Andrea & I (Ron) as WordPress Rockstars. Donncha is also on the roster. WordPress Rockstars has a rating system in place and you can give give each of us a rating. Stats on the rating results are on the main page.  

(Editor’s note: this was published in May, 2009. As of November 2009, Free BuddyPress Themes is under new ownership and has a whole new pile of themes. Check it out Free BuddyPress Themes ) You may have heard of a social networking plugin for WordPress MU called BuddyPress. In this post, I’m...