Every Summer we try and both update and archive some of the old projects we have on the various Bluehost accounts we have done over the last 3 or 4 years. It is a painstaking process, and when you have anywhere from 50-100 WordPress one-off blogs, MediaWiki installs, Drupal sites, and phpbb forums out in [...]
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Archiving ain’t easy: bringing old one-off WP sites into WPMu
Published by July 1st, 2009 in UMW Blogs, WordPress, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 8 CommentsUMW Blogs and BuddyPress is disco a go-go!
Published by June 26th, 2009 in BuddyPress, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 0 CommentsImage Credit: Alan(ator)’s “Solar System Disco Ball Mobile”
That’s right, UMW Blogs now has all the BuddyPress features fully operational, take a look for yourself at the blogs directory, members directory, groups directory and profiles. This is very eciting for a wide range of reasons, and we couldn’t have done it without the great, potentate [...]
WPMu and BuddyPress Integration with bbPress 1.0 RC3
Published by June 21st, 2009 in wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 4 CommentsbbPress is finally moving towards 1.0, and it looks like it may get there quickly. The tutorial that I wrote up about integrating WPMU, BuddyPress, and bbPress was actually for bbPress Alpha, so I took the time to update today. The cookie integration details changed slightly for me for WPMu 2.7.1, so I figured I [...]
Reason #7,000,001 to use WPMu on campus
Published by June 11th, 2009 in UMW Blogs, WordPress and wpmu. 2 CommentsWith over 7 million users on WordPress.com, chances are that a number of faculty and students are bound to be familiar with the application at your campus. Case in point, a faculty member new to blogging at UMW just came in for a consultation, and while she was new to UMW Blogs and hasn’t used blogs [...]
A random bug and an memory error in WPMu 2.7.1
Published by June 10th, 2009 in wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 12 CommentsUpdate: The following error was caused by wp-cache.php. I disabled the file and WP-Super-Cache for the moment, and we’ll see if an upgrade of WP-Super-Cache doesn’t solve this error.
Every user that is not an admin on UMW Blogs seemed to be getting the following error in the header of the administrative backend:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied [...]
Image credit: Steve Rhodes’ “Bank of America security giving me the finger during the Iraq war protest”
OK, I need some help here. I am trying to make sure everything we do on UMW Blogs is covered under SSL, and while we have the SSL certificate for UMW Blogs, we don’t have the dynamic subdomain [...]
Mapping a domain within a mapped domain
Published by May 18th, 2009 in UMW Blogs, WordPress, open source, plugins, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 6 CommentsSo, I was wondering whether or not it would be possible to actually map a domain within a mapped domain on UMW Blogs, and I finally got my answer at the Faculty Academy workshop I ran on domain mapping.
What the hell am I talking about? Well, it’s pretty simple, we currently have two WPMu sites [...]
Approximating the Syndication Bus with WordPress.com
Published by May 11th, 2009 in WordPress, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 8 CommentsMichael Willits (do you have a blog I can link to yet, and why aren’t you blogging this?) sent me an email last week about some of the very cool work Danielle Stern is doing with her Gender Communication courses at Christopher Newport University (hereafter CNU). This spring Michael (being a DTLT kinda guy) encouraged [...]
Building the Syndication Bus: Plugin Ingredients
Published by May 9th, 2009 in rss, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 6 CommentsWhile at Duke, UVA, and more recently the University de Mayaguez—I’ll post about that event as soon as I finish traveling—the most common question people had for me was how can they design/build the “Syndication Bus” for WPMu. Well, this is probably a multi-post affair, but to get the ball rolling and to do [...]
UMW Blogs’ Support Stats
Published by April 13th, 2009 in UMW Blogs, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 10 CommentsWhen people ask me how much time I spend supporting UMW Blogs, I say it’s about an hour of my week, which is true. Now, to be clear, I think of support along the lines of “I lost by password” or “How do I change my theme?” and questions like that. More along the lines [...]
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