Monthly Archives August 2007

Back door to see the number of blogs on a MU installation

It seems that there is a back door to see the number of blogs on a WordPress-MU installation. If you look at the header of any page on a WordPress-MU installation you will see a line like (the XXXX denotes the number of blogs on the system): X-totalblogs:·XXXX The Header section shows stuff that your […]

WordCamp Israel 2007

After Matt wrote about the coming Wordcamp Beijing, the WordPress folks in Israel started organizing the Israeli event. No date had been set yet but there is a lot of information in the Hebrew site that was opened. I will update this post once a date and location will be determined.

Widgetbox widget for WordPress-MU

Widgetbox is a directory for web widgets for blogs and other web pages. The service uses embed code for widget insertion which can not work for WordPress-MU users. The Widgetbox widget for WordPress-MU is a widget that will allow your WPMU users to use the Widgetbox service. For example you can insert a Tetris game […]

WordPress-MU 1.2.4 is out

Donncha posted that the new 1.2.4 version of WordPress-MU is out. There is also a thread on the support forum.

How to set the default theme in WPMU?

By default, WordPress-MU is set to have the Kubrick theme for all new blogs created. If you would like to change this option you have two ways to do that. The first  involves a small change to the core files of your WPMU installation. Open the wp-admin/upgrade-schema.php file, scroll down to line 293 (on version […]

How to Write Plugins for WordPress MU

itdamager wrote a short post on the basics of WPMU plugin development. plugins for WordPress and WordPress MU are very similar but there are a few specific MU commands and plugin placement differences you should consider when creating a plugin for WPMU. This post should get you going if you want to get your hands […]