Tag Archives: wpmu

Don’t Call it A Blog!

Posted on March 29, 2008 by Reverend

Over the last month I was a proud member of two different presentations with the same title, “Don’t call it a Blog, Call it an Educational Publishing Platform.” The whole idea behind these presentations was to highlight the immense possibilities … Continue reading →

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WPMu at a campus near you?

Posted on March 28, 2008 by Reverend

WordPress Multi-User as an educational publishing platform…who knew? You, that’s who! The Blogs@Baruch publishing platform, powered by the ever venerable WordPress Multi-User, is ready for official promotion, so given my status as fanboy, consider it promoted. Mikhail Gershovich has worked … Continue reading →

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Educational Blog Aggregation that Scales

Posted on March 26, 2008 by Reverend

I just commented over at William & Mary Blogs (wmblogs.net), and I can’t begin to tell you how excited I am that William & Mary is not only playing around with WordPress Multi-User and kicking around the questions surrounding aggregation, … Continue reading →

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Akismet…Ouch! for WPMu

Posted on March 25, 2008 by Reverend

Patrick just informed me the great Spam Karma 2 plugin is no longer being maintained by the developer (something I should have know, but may have purposefully blocked), and a quick search for the developer’s blog (Unknown Genius) may very … Continue reading →

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WPMu Text Encoding Hell

Posted on March 24, 2008 by Reverend

Important Update: In the following discussion I talk about how changing the UTF8 setting in the wp-config.php file for WPMu to UTF-8 fixed my encoding problem, and this is true. That said, this change has led to a far bigger … Continue reading →

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Just Another Virginia college using WPMu

Posted on March 11, 2008 by Reverend

The College of William and Mary is now running WordPress Multi-User for its blogging platform, and these forward thinking mavens are even hosting it externally, very cool! I just wish they would open up the comments on the front page … Continue reading →

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WPMu blog-by-blog upload space quota

Posted on March 11, 2008 by Reverend

Here’s a quick question I got today that may be of use to some: “Can you control the upload space quota on a blog-by-blog basis in WPMu?” As of version 1.3.x administrators now have this useful option. The overall setting … Continue reading →

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WPMu as eduglu?

Posted on March 9, 2008 by Reverend

I find myself experiencing a kind of joyful obsolescence at the moment while reading the recent stream of posts from Andre Malan’s blog. I’m nothing short of blown away, and if you are at all interested in WPMu as an … Continue reading →

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Thank you sir, may I have another RSS feed!

Posted on March 8, 2008 by Reverend

I think the sir in this title should really be Andre Malan who recently created the Add to BDP RSS, his first plugin for WordPress. It provides functionality I have dreamed of for over a year now. In short, it … Continue reading →

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WPMu as an Educational Network

Posted on March 7, 2008 by Reverend

Seems like using an open source application like WordPress Multi-User to create a social networking tool where people actually control their work is making some headway. Most notably in Matt Mullenweg’s recent announcement that Automattic is backing BuddyPress (an open … Continue reading →

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