Category Archives: Wordpress MU

How to monetize your WordPress MU site?

So you got a WordPress MU site running and was thinking how you can monetize your new adventure? There are more than a few ways to monetize your wpmu service but I think that the best ways are those which allow your bloggers to share the profits with you. So the magic words would be revenue […]

BlogRush widget for WordPress-MU

If you want to help your WordPress-MU bloggers drive more traffic to their blogs, why not let them use BlogRush. You can watch the short BlogRush video to learn about it but in short this widget shows related posts from other blogs (like the one currently on the sidebar). Each time the widget is shown, […]

WPMU signup security question

The Signup Security Question plugin for WordPress-MU adds a changeable question to the signup form. Site admins can set the question and answer via the admin backend: The question will be added to the signup form:

WordPress-MU 1.2.5 is out

Donncha posted that the new 1.2.5 version of WordPress-MU is out. There is also a thread on the support forum: This is a security release based on WordPress 2.2.3 and also has two major fixes by Alexander Concha. This is a required upgrade. Please upgrade as quickly as possible.

AuctionAds revenue sharing widget for WordPress-MU

AuctionAds is a service that let you place ads for eBay products and earn money when a user takes action on a product The AuctionAds revenue sharing widget for WordPress-MU will allow you, the owner of a WPMU site, to share AuctionAds revenue with your users. You can set the percentage of your share (default […]

A script to set global options for all WPMU blogs

Following a question on the WordPress-MU support forum titled How to change default posts_per_page for all blogs? here is the script I use to set different options for all existing blogs. Please note that for new blogs you should set the options in the wp-admin/upgrade-schema.php file. Important note: this script is released with no warranty […]

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 […]

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 […]