Tag Archives: wpmued

Cloning the UMW Blogs Empire

Posted on November 17, 2008 by Reverend

This Thursday I’ll be heading down to Longwood University to do a workshop on Web 2.0, blogging, and the like. Liz Kocevar-Weidinger of the Greenwood library at Longwood saw a few of us from UMW present last year on the … Continue reading →

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FeedWordPress Widget: If you blog it, it is no dream

Posted on November 16, 2008 by Reverend

Less than a week after blogging my wish for a widget that would allow people to add links to their sites (no matter where they are hosted, they just need a valid feed), which in turn would be automatically entered … Continue reading →

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FeedWordPress: A Widget Wish

Posted on November 12, 2008 by Reverend

The whole syndication-oriented architecture (feed-frenzied learning) many have been playing with using WordPress Multi-User has been moving along pretty well for us at UMW. With the help of just a couple of plugins we have been able to generate a … Continue reading →

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UMW Blogs Support Vidoes Now Embeddable

Posted on November 6, 2008 by Reverend

A couple of months ago I promised I would take the flash videos (published as .swf files) and upload them to Blip.tv so that others could use them freely and embed them elsewhere at will.  I finally got around to … Continue reading →

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Installing WPMu on cheap, external webhosting

Posted on November 5, 2008 by Reverend

James farmer has posted a great tutorial over at WPMu.org that takes you through the steps of setting up a WordPress Multi-User installation on a cheap, external webhosting service. He focuses on one webhosting service in particular for the demonstration, … Continue reading →

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UMW Blogs loves Akismet

Posted on November 5, 2008 by Reverend

After reading this post by D’Arcy about how easy and free it is to get Akismet up and running for WordPress Multi-User, I finally decided to take the plunge and replace the developmentally languishing Spam Karma 2 with Akismet–I’ll miss … Continue reading →

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A long list of Universities using WPMu

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Reverend

Dave Lester did a fine job of compiling a long list of Universities that are using WPMu in one capacity or another. It’s a great list, and there are at least 40 institutions on there I had no idea about. … Continue reading →

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Clubs and Organizations on UMW Blogs

Posted on October 29, 2008 by Reverend

One of the most interesting elements of UMW Blogs is the way in which things kinda happen on their own accord, and the publishing environment takes on a life of its own. For example, I track a lot of the … Continue reading →

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UMW Blogs has its first mapped (sub)domain

Posted on October 27, 2008 by Reverend

I have blogged regularly about mapping domains on WordPress Mulit-User for over a year now.  And it is with great pleasure that I announce the first instance of a mapped domain on UMW Blogs (which is actually a mapped subdomain).  … Continue reading →

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A Semantic UMW Blogs

Posted on October 25, 2008 by Reverend

Patrick Murray-John has been working tirelessly over the last month to realize an extremely exciting possibility for marrying the Semantic Web with WPMu, although this experiment is by no means limited to this application. What he has been doing is … Continue reading →

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