Customizing your install: the home page

Posted by Andrea under Basics, Plugins, Themes

The absolute first thing you want to do when your site is installed and running is change it off the default theme. There are actually two copies of kubrick bundled in MU. One is under the default folder, the other is under a theme folder called “home”. The only difference is this one makes use [...] Read more »

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New theme club, MU friendly

Posted by Andrea under Themes

Small Potatoes, the designer of the theme I’m using on this blog, has realeased a FIVE DOLLAR theme club. Yeah, you read that right. $5 for at least 12 professionally designed and very slick themes over the course of a year.
I’ve exchanged a few emails about the specifics of MU, so he’s keeping that in [...] Read more »

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Social networking with WPMU

Posted by Andrea under Plugins

BuddyPress was anxiously being awaited by some members of the community, for it promised to really bring social networking functions together under MU. The developer has released the unfinished project back to the community due to lack of time. Something which I can relate to.
Note: BuddyPress has been setup on GoogleCode.
As an alternative, there is [...] Read more »

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Version 1.3.2 gets tagged & released

Posted by Andrea under News

In case you haven’t heard, WMPU 1.3.2 was released. This is considered a major security upgrade with fixes from Wordpress 2.3.2 and some fixes for MU specifically.
PLEASE NOTE: There’s a new whitelist option in there for plugins that make use of options.php. See here for details, but the short version is some plugins may break.
Share [...] Read more »

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Customizing your install: Login & Favicon

Posted by Andrea under Plugins

In a continuing series of posts, we’ll explore what you, the site admin, can do to your MU install to create a customized experience for your user. It is important to make some visual changes to attract users, give them a reason to use your site, and to create a better experience for them. In [...] Read more »

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Performancing notes

Posted by Andrea under Plugins

Quentin has written up a series of notes (in English) on running a large MU site. These notes are mostly to do with preformance and caching. if you have a smaller site, it is still worth reading, as someday you may be bigger, and you will want to start paying attention to efficiency at some [...] Read more »

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