news for the week ending March 20

And now for some WordPress MU news from around and about.

Plugins:
Nifty plugin showed up at WPMUDev.org – Add promotional blogs via a CSV file.

Paypal subscription plugin This is only different from the one offered at the Premium site in the fact that it adds an affiliate level. So if someone signs up for a paid blog on the same system, using a user’s link from that system, they get a cut.

Don’t have MU installed and need to test a wpmu plugin? Fake it.

BuddyPress:
A reminder about the BuddyPress theme contest, and here’s a couple of really nice buddypress themes from a new theme spot, BuddyDress. Cute name.They even have a facebook-like theme for WordPressMU and BuddyPress

You may have noticed that BP can be a bit of a resource hog, which Andy has been working on. Phil has gone into quite a bit of details as to how the programming can be improved.

Great posts:
IP converge modules for wordpress mu IP.Converge is an application offered by IPS free of charge to any customer with a current active support license. It is designed to provide a central location to perform user authentication and management requests between different web applications.
Open source & social media as online education support tools More and more universities are looking at WPMU for their needs.
Installing WordPressmU in a subdirectory of an existing WordPress blog. Minor hack sorts it out, and you’ll never need to apply the hack for upgrades.

Next version:
People are wondering when the next version of WPMU will come out. I asked the Big D, and he said 2.7.1 will be out when a bunch of bugs get squashed. So go test! There’s some outstanding tickets that have to be fixed by the next release, and one man can’t test them all. Grab the trac version from the 2.7 branch (zip link at bottom of the page), slap it up locally or somewhere other than your main install, and test away. Report any findings back into trac.

Notable forum thread: pre_update_term vs get_term Needs some feedback.

Speaking of versions, anything less than 2.7 is a security risk, so upgrade. I’ll note that you don’t need to panic, as the threat is mainly on sites who also have a virtual host record. Look for < Virtual Hosts *:80 > in your httpd.conf file, and if your MU site is listed under there, AND it’s before 2.7, then upgrade.

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