Comments on: FAQ for Universities Interested in WPMu

By: Using a Blog to Run Your Courses? Why You Might Consider WPMU. - ProfHacker.com

Using a Blog to Run Your Courses? Why You Might Consider WPMU. - ProfHacker.com — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:09:34 +0000

[...] for much bigger things. Those interested in an institution-wide installation might want to read this and this. It’s also worth a visit to UMW Blogs or the CUNY Academic Commons to see it in [...]

By: Andrea_R

Andrea_R — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:41:08 +0000

Doh, that’s the one…

By: MarkS

MarkS — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:59:36 +0000

Thanks Andrea. Just need to Cap the B & T.
http://wpmudev.org/project/Blog-Topics

By: Andrea_R

Andrea_R — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:54:47 +0000

http://wpmudev.org/project/blog-topics

This will categorize your blogs into groups, for free. Hey, has an admin menu too.

By: Reverend

Reverend — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:38:34 +0000

@Haider,
The only plugin I know that does this is Blog Types, and unfortunately it is locked behind a paywall at wpmudev premium: http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/blog-types

Tragedy of the commons indeed.

@MarkS,
I’m sorry I missed you at WordCamp NYC, I was kind of an Ed Track snob, didn;t see much else which is my fault, and something I I would have liked to change, but I guess my heart remains very much within this app as a teaching and learning tool—I Love my ed peoples

As for the sitewide feed from BuddyPress, I am going to let Boone B. Gorgs know about this via Twitter, and see if he doesn;t have some ideas. He is pretty much shredding up the BuddyPress development, and this is something the CUNY Academic Commons will need eventually when they start syndicating post to group/class blogs (if they indeed go that route)with FeedWordPress. So stay tuned. Also, Boone blogs at http://teleogistic.net\\

Stay tuned

By: MarkS

MarkS — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:00:17 +0000

Update on Feedwordpress – One of the recent wpmu upgrades corrected the Feedwordpress header errors I was getting. Feedwordpress has also been updated since my last comment. Now if I can only find a solution to the duplication of posts (from feedwordpress) that appear in buddypress sitewide activity widget I’m not sure if, or how, the hack for the mu sitwide-mulit-widget would work with bp but hope to keep the bp activity widget as it’s part of the core.

Jim- Good to ’see’ you at Wordcamp NYC. Didn’t get a chance to talk as our paths didn’t cross other than from a distance.

By: Haider

Haider — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:43:35 +0000

Hi,
Could you give some help regarding how could i include each new blog in some category? I should also be able to click on some categories list and when select a particular category it should list all blogs of that category?

By: Reverend

Reverend — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:35:39 +0000

We are using Google analytics for the whole WPMu install, and that is working out wuite well. There is a plugin at wpmudev.org that makes it easy.

By: Minnesota Attorney

Minnesota Attorney — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:59:09 +0000

What about analytics software? Is there any analytics software that will allow you to analyze web traffic as a whole as well as to each particular site/blog?

By: Jeff Perr0

Jeff Perr0 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:41:36 +0000

This really was an excellent post.

We are currently running 2 instances of WPMU at our college: One for students and one for instructors.

About security and the Userthemes plugin:

We have installed Userthemes on the instructors’ blog, there is no self-registration and once they have an account we bascially let them do anything.

However, on our student blog, we allow self-registration and I did not install Userthemes. Wouldn’t you be worried about what a student could write in PHP, with access to a database connection? If it becomes popular, we could have thousands of accounts and it would be impossible to keep track of who was writing their own scripts.

Anyways, I enjoyed this article and am always interested to find out how other Colleges and Universities are using Wordpress.