When I first had the idea for this widget, it was because my mom asked for it. I had set her up with her own blog, and since she is new to blogging in general (but not computers thankfully), the only thing she had trouble doing was something a lot of new users struggle with. Bling. And by bling I mean...

I’m thinking I should start making this a regular weekly feature. Sheesh, you guys have been busy this week, and it’s not over yet. First up, Phil the Frumph over at WebComicPlanet has integrated php free chat into WPMU. Cool beans, I tried it out. And someone from the forums has been hiding...

If you have been running WorPress MU for a while, you may not have seen some of the recent additions to values defined in wp-config.php. For single site WPMU installs, as of 2.6.1, you can save a couple of database and/or internal cache lookups by adding 3 defines to your wp-config.php: define('DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE',...

First off, BuddyPress is in RC-1. Could be a good Valentine’s Day present coming out. Buried within that announcement post is this gem: Over the next few weeks there will be work done to add integrated support for site-wide plugins in WordPress MU. Site-wide plugin support will provide the ability...

I first visited this topic last year, but just gave a quick overview of a plugin you can edit. Since the process is a wee bit different in 2.7, I thought I’d just go ahead and release a quick plugin for you to play with. Grab the zip here Custom Login (1638), unzip it in your mu-plugins folder....

In case you haven’t seen it yet, James has written up a very interesting post over at wpmu.org about Edublog’s financial model. Lots of goodies, and they’ve now released a plugin called Supporters over at the Premium side. To make it even more interesting, a discussion has started in...

Spam: it’s a big issue for any blog, but under WPMU you now have a whole network and it increases by a factor of however many blogs you have. And with a dizzying array of spam plugins out there, what’s an admin to do? There’s Akismet, but you may need a license. There’s SK2, which...

There’s a new admin bar in the 2.7 version of WPMU. It has settings so users can see it on the front side if logged in, and a wonky bit to switch between blogs that may have a few bugs. If you don’t like it, don’t have use for it, whatever your reasons, here’s how to disable it. Remember...