Here’s a plugin complete with a widget that lets the site admin pick and choose which posts to feature. A backend menu is created where the admin can input a sitewide feed. In MU, the menu item is under site Admin, and in regular WordPress, it’s under Appearance. We recommend using this in conjunction with [...]
Enabling wildcard subdomains
October 26, 2009 By
When you install WPMU by default the subdomain option is checked. This is for blogs in the format of username.yourdomain.com. There are two steps that need to be done to your server in order for this to work. In Apache, there needs to be a line in the domain’s virtual hosts section as follows: ServerName [...]
WordCamp New York
October 19, 2009 By
Be there or be square – WordCamp NYC is shaping up to be HUGE. Not only did they get a bigger venue, there will be EIGHT tracks. One of which is BuddyPress/WPMU. And in a couple of those tracks, both Ron and I will be speaking. Yes, that is correct – we will be there [...]
Make a tags page like WordPress dot com
October 17, 2009 By
We’ve all seen it, the massive tags results page at wordpress.com. I’ve been asked a few times how it was done, then realized while writing it out for someone that I hadn’t yet written up and posted a full-blown tutorial. So, here you go. The biggest puzzle piece you need to know is it is [...]
Some great tutorials around
October 7, 2009 By
A few posts caught my eye today, and I thought I’d share the good ones. Posting to WordPress MU by Email – which, has been done, but this is more an experiment to make it way easier and automated. Migrating a WordPress MU, WordPress or BuddyPress site from localhost to a live site – Dave [...]
