WPMU Version 2.7 is released – an overview & upgrade tips
Earlier this week, WordPressMU 2.7 was officially released, and the crowds rejoiced and broke out into song. There’s a whole pile of new things, and if you can’t remember what was new for regular WordPress 2.7, here’s a brief list: brand new admin area redesign with menu down the left...
Build your own widget
Chances are, you’re running a WPMU in some sort of niche. On top of that, you probably have some users who want to place particular javascript in a text widget. By default, this gets stripped out. What to do? Why, build a widget for them, of course! Here’s an incredibly simple BASIC widget...
MU is virtually yours
One of the hardest, and ultimately neato-cool features of MU is the way it creates user’s blogs. On installation, you are given the choice of subdomains (username.domain.tld) or subdirectories (domain.tld/username/). Either way, the site admin does not have to create subdomain or subdirectories...
Disabling the Update Reminder
If you have kept up with your updates on WPMU releases, then you have probably seen the update reminder that reads something like this: Site Administrator: WordPress 2.7 is available! A new version of WordPress MU will be available soon. I wrote a quick little plugin for folks who would rather not see...
phpinfo
Barry @ dev.clearskys.net left a comment on the XMLRPC post below. He has posted a slick little phpinfo plugin for WPMU. Thanks  
Bug affecting XMLRPC
There is some dispute as to who owns the bug. Some feel the developers behind PHP should address it while others feel that the libxml developers should resolve it. I’m not really interested in getting into that argument. The low-down on the bug is that libxml 2.7.X has been rolled out into major...
Users adding users in WPMU 2.7
WordPressMU 2.7 isn’t out yet*, but Ron & I have been running the trunk both locally and on a small site in development. A handy new feature is built right in. Before, if a user wanted to add another user to their blog, they had to be directed to the signup page, go through the motions there,...