Note: This plugin has been submitted to the weblogtooolscollection plugin competition 2009. Working with a single large export file can be difficult. Use this plugin to create multiple export files that contain sections of your blog. This plugin has been tested on WP versions 2.7 – 2.8 & WPMU 2.7.X. All restriction options provided in [...]
Week #3 Build a better blog site – User themes and plugins
June 27, 2009 By
So our site is up and running, our main page is getting all set up, but what now? The reason we built the site in the first place: our users. Like a houseplant, we have to give them everything they need so they don’t shrivel up and go away. Remember the notes we made back [...]
Installing in a subfolder
June 25, 2009 By
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS NO LONGER NEEDED WITH THE LATEST RELEASE (2.9.x and up) This issue is becoming increasingly common as more people try out WPMU on their existing servers, with an existing WordPress install in place. You put the files in a folder, go to the URL, and unlike what the instructions say, you [...]
WP-Devel plugin
June 23, 2009 By
I noticed this new plugin which looks like it could be handy – especially if you are tearing your hair out trying to debug issues with WPMU. Included debug information: * Show template file viewing * Display page/query load times * Display all queries executed w/ load times * Enable WP_Debug * Show all phpinfo [...]
Building a better blog host: Week 2 – the front page
June 19, 2009 By
This week we are going to concentrate on the front page of your site. Now that you have it installed and up and running, the first thing to take care of is the first page people will see when they land. The home page of the entire site is actually controlled by the theme of [...]
Building a better blog host: Week 1
June 12, 2009 By
Welcome to the first installment of the “Build a Better Blog Host” series. The main point of this series will be to inform you, the reader and soon to be site admin, how to use WordPressMU to host blogs for others. The secondary point will be to help you determine the features you need to [...]
New series starting Friday
June 8, 2009 By
This Friday will be the first post in a 6 week series on how to set up and run your WPMU-based site. We’ll walk you through setup, picking themes and plugins, and a few extras like SEO, tweaking the server and security. The rough plan is as follows: 1 – thinking about your end users, [...]
Spam blogs and Buddypress
June 6, 2009 By
A couple weeks ago we posted that D’Arcy Norman has figured out a quick htaccess method to stop those sploggers from doing their automated signups.
You can modify those rewrite rules to work with Buddypress:
MU’ing WP
June 3, 2009 By
If you did not catch this on twitter (our twitter links are in the sidebar), I was experimenting with possibilities of how one could go about merging the WP & WPMU codebases. Andrea wrote an initial post and yesterday Matt Mullenweg confirmed it in this comment. Most of the programming that I’ve done in the [...]
