In addition to our existing BuddyPress compatible plugins at WPMU DEV Premium you’ll be delighted to know that the following plugins are now 100% BuddyPress compatible to:
Multi-DB - Allowing you to split - your WPMU database and scale up to millions of blogs
Set passwords on blog creation - Allows you to allow your new users to set a password when they sign up
Remove email verification from sign up - Allow people to just create an account and get going, without needing to verify their email address
Over time we’ll be making more and more WPMU DEV Premium plugins fully BuddyPress compatible, and we have other BuddyPress goodies on the way too :)
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Taken from: The WordPress MU Manual
While U.S English is the default display language for WordPress the software has the built in capacity to be used in any language. This is done by installing the .mo languages translation files in a languages folder in wp-content.
If you want to create or modify a .mo file you need to use poedit and the .po file (refer to Translating WordPress at for more information).
Installing Languages
1. Download the required .mo languages translation file from:
a. Languages for WordPress MU – contains 36 different languages for WordPress MU that have been collated and edited for easy use
b. http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-i18n/
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a) Downloading the Languages for WordPress MU is the easier option because it can be time consuming locating the correct files on http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-i18n/
b) Languages for WordPress MU contain both .mo and .po languages translation files. To add a language to your site you upload the .mo file. The .po files are so you can edit and improve the translations.
2. Unzip the downloaded files to a folder on your hard drive
3. Create a language folder on your hard drive and add all the .mo file to your language folder
4. Launch FileZilla
5. Enter your domain name, your username and password. NOTE: the same username and password that you use to log into your cPanel.
6. Click Quickconnect
7. Locate the languages folder on your computer
8. Open up your wp-content folder for your site (located within your public_html folder)
9. Select the language folder on your computer and drag it into your wp-content folder on your site
10. Dragging the language folder from your computer into wp-content folder of your site uploads these new languages to your WPMU site however they aren’t enabled.
Language Options
There are two options for changing default language on your site:
1. Site Admin > Options - used to change the default language site wide i.e. the language that is displayed inside the dashboards of all blogs site wide and on the login screen.
2. Settings > General – used by your users to override your default language setting. This enables your users to set their own preferred default language.
For example, here is what it would look like if its default language was set to Dutch
Changing the sitewide language
1. Click on Site Admin > Options
2. Select the default language
3. Then click Update Options
Changing language on a per blog basis
Users can override the default language settings and set their own preferred default language using Settings > General.
1. Click on Setting > General
2. Select the default language under blog language
3. Then click Save Changes
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Motionmill and Terry Hall are the latest WPMU Developers listed at WPMU Jobs.
Great work guys - we’re looking forward to driving as much business as we can your way!
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What is this, our relaunch week revisited or what!!!
Here’s your third new plugin this week alone - and it’s kinda cool, it allows site admins to lock any post or page from being edited by any other user (even an administrator on their own blog!).
Check it out here: Lock posts WordPress MU Plugin
All it does is drop a simple option under each post which, if checked, locks that post from being edited by anyone other than a site admin user.
So, say a student has submitted an assignment, and you want to stop them editing it after submission - or say that a news story has made it through sub editorial and you want to stop anyone messing with it - or say that you are just hungry for the power :)
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There’s a new WordPress MU developer registered at WPMU Jobs called Optawise.
Have you registered your services yet?
You should… it’s 100% free for WPMU DEV Premium members and will take you all of 3 minutes - register here!
And a few new jobs too, including Common users across all blogs and a plugin that can store info and variables that can be recalled from db and used in theme / code.
And someone’s looking to pay for plugin integration too!
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Hmmmm… so…
“Movable Type will almost always be preferred by those who require an enterprise grade product with an SLA and paid support system backed by a commercial company. Six Apart is unsurpassed in that respect. “
I’m not sure if they are claiming that Six Apart are unsurpassed in backing Movable Type (I suppose that’d be hard to dispute) but I’d say that for WPMU not only do you have Automattic’s VIP program and support but also WPMU DEV Premium, Incsub and a heap of other consultants which, if you as me, more than competes with the help and support offered by a single organisation like 6A.
Sure, I’m a massive (did I say that again, massive) fan of what 6A have achieved in the commercial space - it takes hanging out trying to make a buck in this world for a while to truly appreciate what they’ve achieved - but will Melody fall on deaf ears?
(sorry, couldn’t help myself)
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Taken from The WordPress MU Manual and applicable to standard WordPress as much as WPMU!
Each WordPress theme is made up of a collection of templates which includes a stylesheet (style.css) and several PHP template files.
The stylesheet controls the formatting and layout of your blog theme in terms of colour, what the font looks like, where elements are position on the page and so on.
PHP (stands for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) is the scripting language used by WordPress to create the blog pages. When a visitor goes to your blog to read content, a request is sent to your server. This request is received by the PHP programming language which obtains the required information from your MySQL database and displays it in the visitor’s web browser.
While you don’t need know how to code PHP a basic understanding of both HTML and PHP means you can make minor edits to themes using a text editor such as EditPlus. EditPlus is a text editor, HTML editor and programmer’s editor for Windows. While you could edit in NotePad, EditPlus offers many powerful features that makes it better suited for editing PHP.
For Mac Users try using Smultron; free Text Edit software designed for Macs.
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Always save a backup of your themes on your hard drive so that you have the original files in case it is necessary to restore the original themes.
Editing the blog footer
A simple theme edit is to change the link in the blog footer from ‘Powered by WordPress MU’ to ‘Hosted by’ and the name of your domain. For example, all Edublogs themes are ‘Hosted by Edublogs’.
You use EditPlus3 as follows to edit the blog footer in all 100 themes contained in the Farms 100 big ones theme pack:
1. Download and install EditPlus3.
2. Launch EditPlus3.
3. Locate and open up the folder on your computer that contains the themes.
4. Now open up the footer.php in one of the theme folders. For example, 72 classes
5. Locate and highlight all the text that creates the link in the blog footer that says ‘Powered by WordPress MU’ then go to Search and select Find in Files.
6. Change file type to *.*, select Include Subfolders, locate your folder that contains all themes that you want to edit and then click Find
This will locate every file in the themes folder that includes the ‘Powered by WordPress MU’ (for the 100 big one theme packs it should locate 100 occurrences)
7. Now right click and select Open All to open up every footer.php file that contains ‘Powered by WordPress MU’
8. Locate and highlight all the text that says ‘Powered by WordPress MU’ then go to Search and select Replace.
9. In the Replace with field add the new text and link you want to use. For example, Hosted by <a href=”http://edutags.net/”>Edutags.net</a>
10. Now select All open files and click on Replace All.
11. This should have now replaced ‘Powered by WordPress MU’ with your new text and link.
12. Now go to File and select Save All to save all the changes to the footer.php. Next upload the edited themes to your WPMU site using FileZilla.
Next up… languages :)
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I love a catchy title to a post me ;)
But it’s the best I could come up with to describe how our frankly smashing new Batch Create WPMU plugin works!
It’s kind of like our Blog & User Creator plugin, except on some serious ‘roids… you no longer have to use the form based blog creation method, you can just upload a whole stack of blogs urls/users/user emails/user passwords/blog titles etc. via a text file and… WordPress Mu will go and create them all for you!
Now you tell me that isn’t cool :)
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Oh, we’ve started tweeting :) So for the latest WordPress MU goodies, not to mention help, support and tech whinging - follow wpmu.org on twitter :)
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Now that’s a nice domain name :)
Check out the latest major WordPress MU blog hosting site - Blog.com!
I wonder if they are using any WPMU DEV Premium plugins?
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