Somebody asked on Twitter for a way to add author avatars to posts, so this tutorial is partially in response to that. It’s also a helpful community building tool, because readers know where they are and who is speaking to them. This is a quick hack that will instantly add more personality to your posts, [...]
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You’ve provided all the infrastructure for your WPMU or BuddyPress community, and now you want to generate interest and participation. The key to organically growing online communities is to enhance relationships. We’ve compiled a list of tips and tools to help you create the best environment for your WPMU community to thrive and multiply. All [...]
You’ve found the perfect theme for your WordPress installation. It already has most of what you need, except you’d like to include a different sidebar on some of the pages. Or perhaps you would like to have a certain sidebar included based on the category of posts you are displaying. Now there’s an easy way [...]
by Barry
The 100th plugin recently released by WPMUdev was our wonderful affiliate system plugin. What better way to give back to your community for their support and word-of-mouth than to reward them with cold hard cash?
As a WPMUdev plugin it is configured to work hand in hand with our Supporter plugin, and so record user signups [...]
by James
Yes, that’s right, my final entry into the best of WPMU DEV series isn’t a plugin, isn’t a theme, but is – in fact – a non-tangible experience based environments… namely the WPMU DEV Premium Forums.
Read on below the image for the reasons I think they are not just great in their own right, but [...]
by James
By popular request we bring you a plugin that’ll take away an annoying headache – by replacing the default first comment on every blog.
Introducing The default first comment plugin!
What you are probably used to is the ‘Mr WordPress’ comment below:
What this plugin does is set you up with new fields in site admin > options [...]
by James
Taken from The WordPress MU Manual
Your bbPress MU comes with two default theme installed (Kakumei and Kakumei blue). To extend available themes you’ll need to install extra themes on your site.
bbPress themes can be downloaded from bbPress Showcase
Installing New Themes
1. Download the new theme(s)
2. Unzip the file [...]
by James
Inspired by an MU forum post I figured I’d post a summary of where we’re at to now in serialising The WPMU Manual for free on WPMU.org.
- Choosing a domain name and hosting service
- Setting up your MySQL database and user
- Installing WordPress MU
- Changing permissions on public_html and wp-content plus deleting .htaccess
- Setting [...]
by James
While we were putting together WP.MU we realized that for a lot of people new to WordPress MU the ’site admin’ functionality can be a bit confronting and also that there just isn’t enough (well, hardly any) documentation around for new users.
So, in partnership with Sue Waters (the Online Community Facilitator at Edublogs) we decided [...]
by James
Update: After you’re done with this please check out Jason’s excellent part deux
I haven’t allowed myself the luxury of sitting down to write a decent post in me for some time, so this feels good.
Especially because it’s one of those ‘James comes out on top at the end’ posts, which is always nice to share [...]
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