Tag Archives: wpmued

Simple Tags Plugin for WordPress

Posted on April 10, 2008 by Reverend

If you haven’t tried out the Simple Tags plugin yet, I promise you it will never be too soon. This plugin is extremely powerful, and strikes me more as a full blown application within WP than a simple extension of … Continue reading →

Posted in plugins, rss, tags, WordPress, wpmu | Tagged , , , , , , , | 15 Comments

Embedding iFrames on WPMu

Posted on April 1, 2008 by Reverend

While text encoding is proving hellacious for me with WPMu, embedding iframes has never been easier (keep in mind there are risks involved, so think before you drink!). I found a pretty cool plugin for WPMu (there is also one … Continue reading →

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Addendum to My WPMu Encoding Hell

Posted on April 1, 2008 by Reverend

So, my text encoding woes when moving a WP 2.3 single installation to WPMu 1.3.3 have not entirely disappeared, and this post is an important addendum to the original here. So, in short, after seeing stuff like this scattered through … Continue reading →

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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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Improved Site Admin blog & user navigation in WPMu 1.3.3

Posted on March 19, 2008 by Reverend

I just noticed that the latest release of WPMu (1.3.3) finally has a user-friendly system for navigating system-wide blogs and user information. Granted this is a minor detail in many ways, but it makes a huge difference when you are … 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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