A quick note for the RSS subscribers that I updated the Multiple BuddyPress Social Networks to include instructions on getting the forums to work correctly in a multi-network configuration.
Multiple BuddyPress Social Networks
May 19, 2011 By 39 Comments
Since the merge of WordPress and WordPress MU, WordPress has supported running multiple WP networks in the same WP install. This site has been part of a multi-network install for more than two years. In WordPress, the networks are almost completely separated. The only thing that is shared between networks is the user infomation. Since [...]
SharDB for WP 3.1
September 25, 2010 By
Early in the development of WordPress 3.0, we had a preliminary discussion on changing the WordPress database class (wpdb) so that it could be inherited by plugins implementing a custom database class. We had a longer discussion on the subject while together at WordCamp San Francisco. As a result, there was a small change to [...]
SharDB 3.0.1 Update
August 3, 2010 By
Over the weekend I updated SharDB to allow installs to upgrade from WordPress MU 2.9.2 to WordPress 3.0.1. I also did an initial pass at support for new WordPress 3.0 -> WP network in SharDB. In this implementation the main site’s tables will be in the global database. You can easily set up a test [...]
SharDB update
January 24, 2010 By
I updated SharDB (Download) for WordPress MU 2.9.1.1 and added support for the comment meta table.
Scaling WordPress MU with multiple databases
December 29, 2009 By
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 backups of the database. Upgrades with multiple [...]
