Last summer, I had company visiting from England. My cousin Mike works as a risk analyst and security specialist for a large firm in the UK that has some high-profile clients – including government. Naturally, I asked him some relevant questions about web servers, WordPress, hackers and other fun stuff like that. (We refrained from [...]
Customizing multisite dashboards
September 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
While I try and figure out where my words went, and if there’s anything new left to write about multisite that I haven’t already, I’d like to highlight this post from Helen, on customizing the special multisite dashboards. A small thing that can bring great usability to your site if you have more than a [...]
Still on WordPress MU?
August 24, 2011 By 7 Comments
As I do my daily support tasks and forum volunteering, I still see a few people back on WPMU 2.9.2 – or even earlier. If this is your situation, please stop reading this post right now and schedule time to upgrade. “But I can’t upgrade!” Yes, yes you can. Literally thousands – if not hundreds [...]
Enable a theme for one site only
June 14, 2011 By 3 Comments
Sometimes in a WordPress network, you may wish to have a theme enabled just for one site, and restrict access to this theme by other sites. The main blog is a good example, because you do not want users able to choose the exact same layout as the main blog with any custom coding it [...]
Sitewide tags new version
June 11, 2011 By 3 Comments
WordPress MU Sitewide Tags Pages has been updated. In the latest version: += 0.4.1.1 = +* Run populate feature in source blog context. +* Added resource warning for populate feature. +* Fixed PHP warnings. +* Only insert categories for published posts. If you noticed in WordPress 3.1.3 that posts were being duplicated, this fixes it. [...]
User dashboard
May 14, 2011 By
In WordPress version 3.1.2, if you are running a network (multisite) the behavior for users with no blog has changed. Before, users were allocated to a dashboard blog that had no front side if you chose to use one. If not, users were added to the main site. In 3.1.2 this is no longer. users [...]
Close Comments across the network
April 18, 2011 By
Before I get into the how, I think I may need to explain the why. One of the tough job in running a large network of sites with multisite is controlling spam on the sub sites. Add that to users who come and go, abandoning their blogs with open settings, and very quickly your database(s) [...]
Subfolder blog have no theme styles
April 11, 2011 By
Sometimes when creating a network in multisite and picking subfolders, you may find the subfolder blogs have no theme applied (seemingly) or they are unstyled, and you cannot login to the sub sites admin area What went wrong? Well, on the WordPress side.. nothing. This is all server side unfortunately. I’ve seen this happen mostly [...]
View Blog ID
April 5, 2011 By
Astute users of multisite have noticed that the blog ID column is no longer visible in network admin. You can still see the blog ID when you hover over the site name, however. Frank at wpengineer has written up a quick mu-plugin if you’re happier with the whole column showing up. Check it out. View [...]
Forcing subfolder blogs
March 29, 2011 By
Yes, I put this under Hacks, even though technically you’re not changing core files. In certain circumstances – the main one being your blog has been active for more than 30 days – when you try and create a network, you’ll receive a message stating that your blog is too old, and you will not [...]
