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  Get a list of the latest sites or blogs in the network

  863 readersFrom the archives (which are full of good things, btw) I revamped a post with an updated version of the List All plugin, and confirmed the Most Recent Blogs widget still worked. It does! So, if you’re looking to have a widget that will show the last ten blogs, go get it here. Random Posts

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  20th Anniversary

  3769 readersToday is our (Ron & I) 20th Wedding Anniversary. As part of our celebration, we are offering a one day 20% discount on all of our digital products. The coupon code is RonAndreaX20 and it expires at 11:59PM tonight. The coupon can be used on any of the following: Premium BuddyPress Themes Simple Multi-Site e-book/Plugin

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  Get some simple Network stats

  637 readersI remembered this really neat internal function that is handy to display anywhere you want to show how many sites and users you have in your network. $stats = get_sitestats(); echo 'There are currently '.$stats[ 'blogs' ].' sites running on this network and '.$stats[ 'users' ].' users.'; Surround that in php tags. For added snazziness

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  Proposed timeline

  3466 readersJane have given a summary over on the Wordress Dev blog for the general timeline of the next release. Which is, as you know, 3.0. And though it looks pretty straightforward, there’s tons of lines of code to sift through and a whole pile of trac tickets. You guys know the drill. Random Posts May 26, 2008

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  WPMU trac now read-only

  3724 readersThe trac for MU is now closed and all remaining tickets will be moved over to WP trac. source I know there’s a couple bugs in the latest release: people are working on it. Random Posts August 19, 2009 — Getting member blog posts on the main page (24) September 28, 2008 — The Road to Well-Mu (7) November 20,

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  After the Deadline

  2082 readersThe fantabulous spelling and grammar checking plugin After the Deadline has just undergone another round of improvements. Now, you can add a global constant if you’re running this on a WPMU install. This way, the users doesn’t see the menu to add the key. Hit the link for full details. I gotta say, while Rafe did

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  Featured posts plugin updated

  1845 readersWe’ve been picking away at updating plugins and things for 3.0, doing general tidying up and so forth. Just a dust and a clean, and sometimes a sprinkle of awesome. New in the Featured Posts plugin: a short code. Set it up, pull in a feed, pick & choose your posts, slap the shortcode in

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  BuddyPress rc1

  3972 readersBuddyPress reached Release Candidate status this week. Get BP rc-1 over here (zip). Also, the new 2010 default theme has just hit the repo. Scroll down on that page and you’ll get the zip of the theme. Random Posts November 27, 2008 — News from around the WPMU block (0) June 12, 2009 — Building a better blog host:

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  Wordpress.com’s Custom CSS plugin

  2730 readersHere’s a wee little gift from the folks at Automattic: the custom css plugin they use over at wordpress.com. I know some people have been wanting this for ages, even though there are plenty of similar plugins out there already. December 9, 2009 — Twitter Digest (4) December 3, 2009 — MU 2.9 beta (6) November 26,

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  WordPress 3.0 beta is out

  4051 readers… and what we really need is for WPMU users to test it out. Please do not do this on a production site. Ideally, have a test site you can play with (many MU people do) and just manually upgrade the WPMU install to the WordPress beta. Poke around, see if anything broke. If you