WordPressMU 2.7.1 has just been released, and with it a few interesting new features. First off, in the Site Admin -> Options menu, you can now choose to have new subscribers with no blog, get attached to a specific blog. They have been attached to the main blog, but some people have found that unwieldy....

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',...

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...

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,...

Whoa, I can’t believe I overlooked this news. (Actually, yes I can – Ron was sick, my “baby” turned eight years old, and now I’m sick). BuddyPress officially released a public beta. You can hear everyone’s buddy Andy discuss the project on WordPress Weekly. And then...

As an addendum to this post, there’s a few extra tables in WPMU 1.3, which should officially be released any day now. wp_1_terms wp_1_term_relationships wp_1_term_taxonomy There are all related to the internal tag system now available in Wordpress 2.3. You may also have noted that MU is now following...