Just in time to play with for the weekend, Donncha has released WPMU 1.5 rc1. You can read his notes here and grab the zip from trac here. Please be aware this is a release cadidate, not a full release. Either use it on a test server, or backup everything twice before live deployment. As always, note...

Often as an MU admin, we see a theme we like, or a user wants to use, but it’s not widgetized. Rest easy, as widgetizing a theme is quite easy once you know how. I promise it takes longer to read through the instructions than it does to actually do it. I was really pleased to see this post from...

Found a whole site dedicated to listing wpmu-based sites with open registration. http://wpmuhosts.com/ You can even add to it.  

I’ve set up a test install of WordpressMU with BuddyPress added and nothing else. It uses r1219 for MU (from Friday) and r18 for BuddyPress (today’s version). You can find it at http://testdrivewpmu.com and feel free to sign up and check it out from a user’s perspective. The more people...

When I first saw Beau and Ray’s site, mybabyourbaby.com, I was impressed two ways: first, as a parent and second as an MU admin. From a user perspective, it’s different from pretty much all parent/baby sites out there that I have seen, and I have four children. That’s what they did...

Just have a little news from Donncha; he’s finishing up a couple issues and then will be submitting massive amounts of changes to trac. Because I know you’re all waiting anxiously. But then we’ll have to test it out, too. Edit: It’s out – sort of. Read this forum post...

The BuddyPress site is now open with loads of pretty screenshots, a mailing list, trac and an svn repository. I’ve also seen a lot of misconceptions and plain ol’ confusion as to what Buddypress does and how you use it. It is, in the simplest of terms, a plugin for WordpressMU (or more correclty,...