Yesterday, Donncha released WordPress MU version 2.9.2. 2.9.2 contains fixes for the major outstanding bugs in MU. Unless a security issue surfaces in either WordPress or WordPress MU, this is expected to be the last version of MU. Thanks Donncha  

A quick note that Chris has released a new version of his Facebook Dashboard Widget (Download link) that is compatible with WPMU.  

In the Top 10 Most Common Coding Mistakes in WordPress Plugins, third on Ozh’s list is “3. What? 87 new rows in the option table?”. In any of the plugins (and themes) I’ve looked at that use the built-in option saving functionality each field on the options page is being saved...

All of our children have a blog on one of our WPMU installs. One of them asked Andrea if we could add a facebook plugin so she could follow her facebook stream from her blog. The plugin that Andrea found that she thought would do the trick was the Facebook Dashboard Widget. After Andrea installed the...

In this comment, Jane Wells mentioned the idea of volunteering for 2 hrs per month toward the WordPress community. Even though Andrea & I do significantly more hours than that on any month, I think it’s a great idea. So, last night I revisited the exploratory development work I did a few...

I recently wrote a guest post for the excellent Pro Blog Design, called Build a Client Development Site with WordPress MU. The blog’s audience is mainly designers who work with WordPress, so the tutorial is written from that angle. Generally speaking, if you were looking for instructions on how...

This is a refresh of a plugin that we released about 2 1/2 years ago. This version is designed for either subdomain or subdirectory installs. Plugin page: Wordpress MU Theme Stats. Description Adds a Theme Stats option to the site admin menu. The admin panel lists all the themes in use site-wide. At...

This week we are going to concentrate on the front page of your site. Now that you have it installed and up and running, the first thing to take care of is the first page people will see when they land. The home page of the entire site is actually controlled by the theme of the main blog. So for anything...

A couple weeks ago we posted that D’Arcy Norman has figured out a quick htaccess method to stop those sploggers from doing their automated signups. You can modify those rewrite rules to work with Buddypress: Replace yourbpsignupslug with the slug used for your BP signup (ex. register). And,...

I’m following along the live-blogging and tweeting, and in Matt’s state of the word address, he announced that Wordpress.org and WPMU will be merging. When? No idea, but apparently he also stated “watch out for version 3.0″.