David Wiley just blogged about using WPMu as an OCW solution, and one of the issues he is running into is directory structure. What he wants is each department to have its own parent blog, and then child blogs within each department space. For example: http://ocw.byu.edu/math (a department blog) and http://ocw.byu.edu/math/math101 (as a blog within the department [...]
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WPMu as OCW Platform….a solution?
Published by July 3rd, 2009 in WordPress, rss and wordpress multi-user. 4 CommentsArchiving 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 CommentsEvery 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 [...]
UMW 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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The recent annoucnement and sharing of the various extensions and code that enables user integration between WPMu and MediaWiki, I have once again returned to the idea of make the UMW Blogs Wiki a MediaWiki farm. The blog needs a new theme, I know, but more importantly, we need [...]
“Nothing to see here, folks, nothing to see. Move along now….move along.”
We waited until the end of the semester for the UMW Blogs upgrade to 2.7.1 and I have to say going from version 2.6.5 to 2.7.1 was the easiest yet. I was a bit concerned given this was our first upgrade with the multi-database [...]
CUNY Academic Commons Announces WPMu-MediaWiki Single Sign-on
Published by May 26th, 2009 in WordPress, mediawiki, plugins and wordpress multi-user. 6 CommentsI missed this announcement last Thursday while traveling and getting ready for CUNY WordCampEd, but this is pretty exciting news from the CUNY Academic Commons, which promises to become a force in offering up much needed plugins and open source tool integration for open source applications like WPMu, MediaWiki, and the like.
Very cool, MediaWiki and [...]
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