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...

The internet Society (New York Chapter) is archiving what it can find about WCNYC over here. Scroll down to Sunday, and there’s video & audio of my unconference session, which I think went much better, way meatier than the previous day’s presentation. I really like the unconferencing...

If you have explored BuddyPress at all, you will have noticed not only the lack of free themes available, but also the trouble in just finding them. We aim to change that with the Free BuddyPress Themes site. Not only will it feature whatever free BuddyPress themes we can find anywhere online, we will...

A quick note that Chris has released a new version of his Facebook Dashboard Widget (Download link) that is compatible with WPMU.  

This past weekend we were in New York city for WordCamp NYC. What a blast! Everyone we met was so awesome, and I gave out a ton of hugs. There was such a great spirit during the whole weekend, full of learning & sharing. Here’s the slides from our presentations. Our sessions were also filmed,...

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 –...

I recently wrote a guest post for the excellent Pro Blog Design, called Build a Client Development Site with WordPress MU. The blog’s audience is mainly designers who work with WordPress, so the tutorial is written from that angle. Generally speaking, if you were looking for instructions on how...

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...

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.