Newest Blogs widget
Today’s post brings you a little goodie. I looked for this before and couldn’t find one. Basically, it’s pretty simple: we used a function included with the List All plugin, and made it a widget with the new widget class for 2.8. New Members Widget (191) (download link now fixed, sorry!) Available...
Show user id in site admin
Andy posted some jQuery that showed the user ids on the site admin users screen. I wrapped the jQuery in a plugin which you drop into your mu-plugins folder. Show User ID on Site Admin Users page (164)  
Getting member blog posts on the main page
I’ve answered this one quite a few times in the past couple of weeks and realized that I don’t have a posts specifically for this subject. It’s buried in other posts. There are a few different ways to pull in these posts, and none of them are theme issues. They are done entirely with...
Another new release, and upcoming
So hot on the heels of last week, WPMU 2.8.4a is out with a security fix. If you are stuck at 2.8.1 and have trouble with the auto-upgrade, you have to apply the edits Donncha mention in this post. A lot of us old-times are still more comfortable with the manual upgrade, so if the auto-upgrade gives...
Wordpress MU 2.8.3
Was released this afternoon. It is a bug/security fix release. If you use the auto upgrade feature please read Donncha’s notes.  
Custom Author Permalink
Phil (Frumph) & I worked out another SocialPress plugin this week. This one allows you to change your author permalink across your WPMU install. I also tested it in WP 2.8.3 and it worked there as well. For WPMU I tested from version 2.7 through to pre-release 2.8.3. Built into both WP and WPMU...
Wordpress MU Theme Stats
This is a refresh of a plugin that we released about 2 1/2 years ago. This version is designed for either subdomain or subdirectory installs. Plugin page: Wordpress MU Theme Stats. Description Adds a Theme Stats option to the site admin menu. The admin panel lists all the themes in use site-wide. At...