Our larger WordPress MU install, Homeschool Journal has been running on multiple databases for about 3 years. Technically, it’s possible to have thousands of blogs in a single database install. Usually where people running MU start to have issues with the number of blogs is with getting complete...

Hope you guys all had a wonderful holiday. We took some much needed time off. Onward to the good stuff! Now that WordPress 2.9 is out the door, the dev team (Donncha, plus the regular WordPress team) can start working on 3.0, where the merge of wpmu will be rolled in. In case you missed it, Jane has...

Here’s a wee little gift from the folks at Automattic: the custom css plugin they use over at wordpress.com. I know some people have been wanting this for ages, even though there are plenty of similar plugins out there already.  

WordPress has been out in the 2.9 version for a few days now, and Donncha has just checked in the 2.9 code into the MU trunk. You can find it here: WordPressMU trunk Scroll down to the bottom of that page and there is a zip link. Do not put this on a production site yet, but please do try and test it...

I had a few requests to update the Bulk Import Members plugin, so that it did not require BuddyPress to be installed and that it work with WordPress MU 2.8.6. Other changes: it now goes in the plugins folder & activates sitewide. The only users who have access to the plugin are site admins. it...

The fantabulous spelling and grammar checking plugin After the Deadline has just undergone another round of improvements. Now, you can add a global constant if you’re running this on a WPMU install. This way, the users doesn’t see the menu to add the key. Hit the link for full details. I...

Deanna & Kevin released the WPMU Default User Role plugin earlier this week. In WordPress MU, new users are added to the site’s dashboard blog if the site admin has created one. Otherwise the user is added to the main blog in the WPMU site. With the default user role plugin, you can specify...

Andrea was looking for a Twitter digest plugin so that she could start making a permanent backup of her tweets because the twitter API only provides access to the last 3200 tweets. The plugin she asked me to look at was Twitter Digest by Tim Beck. The reason she asked me to look at it was that it the...

Andrea & I use Donncha‘s Sitewide Tags Blog for global content aggregation on any client installs that use sitewide content. Over the last year I’ve made at least a dozen custom versions of it. Most of those do some combination of the features listed below. This week we tested and released...

Donncha wrote yesterday that he was rolling WordPress 2.9 into WordPress MU trunk. In Donncha’s post he notes that to use the beta you may want to manually create the commentmeta table for each blog before doing the upgrade. Triple J wrote a quick and dirty plugin for it. I revised it a bit today....