News from around the WPMU block
First up, you may have heard about the WordPress MU Awards. There’s TONS of awesome wpmu-based sites listed there to vote on. I’m really glad they used ticky boxes because I can’t choose just one. (I didn’t nominate my own site because it needs a major overhaul first. Next year?...
A “Sidebar” with Richard Paul
Guest post written by Richard Paul Hi fellow MUsers! Okay, you are amazing at design or have picked out the perfect theme. You know how to install a plug-in and add widgets, mash-ups, and other gizmos. Some of these you have hard coded into your theme, others you uploaded and enable from the back-end...
Twitaway: The Art & Science of CSS — FREE Download
This is exactly for WordPressMU, but as an admin you will probably have to dig in to CSS at some point. And what better time to brush up on your skills than now? Sitepoint is offering a FREE download of their ebook The Art & Science of CSS. All you have to do is follow them on twitter or plunk your...
Replace embedded post links after changing domains
And now for a short SQL lesson in a case study. Ever do this? Map a domain to a sub-blog, post away merrily for a while (or a user does) and then one day decide you like another domain name better? Yeah. I hate when that happens. Usually because I get to fix it. No problem! We just re-map the new domain...
The goodies are coming
As of little more than an hour ago, Donncha checked in a bunch of changes and a regular WordPress merge into the trunk of WPMU.  Of course I immediately checked it out and updated one of my local installs. Can I just *SQUEEEEE!!!!* in here? I have already been playing with the beta version of WordPress...
Theme designers – what you need to know about WordPressMU
First off, I know there has been some confusion over themes for WPMU, but I can say that 99% of the themes out there work in WPMU. They often require some edits for personal preferences, but what theme doesn’t? Mostly what I’m going to talk is how themes are used in a WPMU environment. In...
Giving your users changeable or custom headers in themes
Built in to WordPress, and also available for WordPress MU, is the Custom header API. This service allows you to quickly add some code to a theme’s fuinctions.php file to make the header area completely customizable. User will be able to upload a header image of their choice on their chosen theme,...