After more than 6 months of development, WordPress 3.0 is out! Many of you will be anxious to update right away, but there are some important things you should know first: General Info WordPress MU has been merged into regular WP, which means whether or not you need multiple blogs (sites now) you will download [...]
by Aaron
Tagged: compatible, multisite, update, updating, upgrade, WordPress 3.0, wordpress mu, wordpress30, wp 3.0, wp 30
by Aaron
While developing and testing our new Anti-Splog plugin on Edublogs we have been making a lot of sploggers very unhappy. A nifty feature of the Anti-Splog plugin is that when you mark a blog as spam instead of that boring white warning screen showing when you visit the splog you get a pretty, branded notification [...]
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For those who don’t know, we (Incsub) run one of the largest WPMU sites on the web with hundreds of thousands of blogs and users. The trouble was that edublogs was getting overwhelmed by splogs with hundreds of new ones being created every day. We never came close to staying caught up with them, and [...]
by Aaron
This is the plugin every WordPress MU or Buddypress admin has been waiting for! Announcing Anti-Splog, the ultimate plugin and service to stop and kill splogs in WPMU. This plugin goes way beyond any existing splog plugin for WPMU because at it’s core is the new Anti-Splog API service hosted at WPMU Dev Premium. This [...]
Tagged: Anti-Spam, buddypress plugin, edublogs, premium plugins, spam, splog, splogs, used in edublogs
by Aaron
Gravatar Preview on Profile Pages I decided to use gravatars in the themes and plugins of my WPMU site, http://missionsplace.com rather than using buddypress or something like that because of the added benefits of avatars showing up on other blogs across the internet. To encourage my users and bloggers to setup their own gravatars, I [...]
by Aaron
When setting up my WordPress MU site (http://missionsplace.com) I couldn’t find any simple way to make certain plugins in the wp-content/plugins folder accessible only to the site admin (me). This is a simple plugin I made that you can drop into the wp-plugins folder to install. Instructions: Filters out specific plugins so only the WordPress [...]
