Late August is going to be a busy time, I’m going to be doing 3 appearances this month, two virtual and one in person. August 19th I will be giving a webinar on multisite for the guys at webdesign.com. Curious? Then this one is for you. (You need a webdesign.com membership.) August 21st I will be Skyping in to WordCamp Savannah to talk about some of the best plugins for network installs. This...

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 install (to test your plugins, etc. with SharDB). Set up a fresh install that has the network enabled,...

Here’s a simple internal function that will return a list of all sites in the network. The code below just shows them all and unlinked.

I updated the theme stats plugin to work with new WordPress 3.0 networks as well as with MU installs upgraded to WordPress 3.0. You can download it here: WordPress Network Theme Stats.  

I remembered this really neat internal function that is handy to display anywhere you want to show how many sites and users you have in your network. $stats = get_sitestats(); echo 'There are currently '.$stats[ 'blogs' ].' sites running on this network and '.$stats[ 'users' ].' users.'; Surround that in php tags. For added snazziness and extra bonus points on your homework, go grab a copy...

Both Andrea & I will be speaking at WordCamp Montreal. Andrea & I have had a fantastic time at every WordCamp we have attended and we enjoy meeting other people who use WordPress. If you have never been to one, this will be a great one for you to attend. Whatever you are doing with WordPress, you can be sure that you’ll have a chance to talk to others who have been or are interested...