Comments on: WordPress Multi Site to replace Multi User!

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:50:19 +0000

A genuine question because this piece of news affects a fairly important dev strategy for one of my clients. The big issue with MU has always been the problem with shared servers delivering sites with the potential for growth/bandwidth with multi user sites, and alternatives to this problem are the basis of several fairly well known businesses.

Does the merge with WP and MU/S mean that some miracle has happened that obviates the server/hosting issue?

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The Exciting Future of Wordpress! Part 1 | Fresh — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:27:35 +0000

[...] for how the multi-site feature will be enabled and configured. Unfortunately it looks like native multiple domain name support won’t be included in the 3.0 release, but we can cross our fingers for a later [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:44:15 +0000

Hikari, “multisite” was not decided on as a final name, it’s just what the folks working on the merge started naming all of the functions.

I’m, of course, happy to pay for any registration fees.

I haven’t heard anything from James about these comments or the email I sent him, so not sure what’s going on.

By: Hikari

Hikari — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:10:34 +0000

Matt, THE guy! :D

Well, first thing you guys should have done just after defining the name was list all domains you thought worthy registering, and second thing was registering them.

Now it’s gone. You should at least offer to pay the registration bill, who would register a domain to donate it afterwards? If you are not willing to buy the domain from him, let him do whatever he wants with those domains.

I imagine Blizzard asking for warcraft4.com and starcraft3.com donations, or Microsoft requesting Mike Rowe for a donation… Of course, Automattic is not like them, but well.

I’d suggest giving up the name, it’s ugly anyway, remembers WordPress MicroSoft (omg don’t let them read this!! :D ) as somebody noted. It’s still time, choose a better name and REGISTER THOSE DAMN DOMAINS!! :P

How about WordPress Multi, or Multi WordPress? *logging on my registrar* :D

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:42:06 +0000

Jack, the love is all around. Multi-site was not supposed to be announced yet, and we forgot to register domains around it, but since James was thoughtful enough to pick them up so that’s why I asked about the transfer. It’s against our community policy to have domains with “WordPress” in them, and has been for 4+ years:

http://wordpress.org/about/domains/

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:11:01 +0000

Where’s the love Matt? You know that someone would purchase as many domains as they could for a very popular product. Why grumble because they are in the hands of someone who actually wants to promote WordPress? If WordPress wanted them, shouldn’t they have bought them before they revealed the new name?

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:17:59 +0000

James, thank you for pre-registering all variations of “WordPress Multisite” domains. Would you be up to donating those to WordPress so they’re not misused?

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Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:35:15 +0000

[...] looking like it’s going to become WP MS (WordPress Multi Site). The news was broken over at WPMU.org. This left me a bit puzzled in my simple designer head though as to the [...]

By: Wordpress 3 (Noscope)

Wordpress 3 (Noscope) — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:44:55 +0000

[...] Work has started on version 3 of WordPress, and while I’m looking forward to custom post types (so I can build “Add News”, “Add Employee”, “Add Video” sections), the big news is the merge with WordPress Multi User. Rumors are, it’ll be renamed WordPress Multi Site. [...]

By: James Bullis

James Bullis — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:25:39 +0000

I’m glad to see something new about the whole integration thing. I’ve personally refrained from entertaining WPMU type projects until it’s all over with. Can’t wait to see how it all comes out in the end.