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

  2729 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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  WPMU trac now read-only

  4549 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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  Proposed timeline

  5297 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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  Last updated sites widget

  2923 readersThis is a handy little widget that will pull a list of all the sites in your network and order them by last updated. The code for this was originally in the home theme of the WPMU download, so thanks to Donncha for that bit. Last Updated Sites widget (153) I tested it in the

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  BuddyPress rc1

  5202 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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  Featured posts plugin updated

  2638 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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  2.9.1 released, last before merge

  6686 readersIt’s officially out: WPMU 2.9.1. As Donncha says, this will likely be the last release before 3.0 and the merge. PLEASE see the info about adding the new commentsmeta table. (Wow, what a crazy ride. ) January 21, 2010 — Testers, start your engines (6) January 6, 2010 — Merge News (1) January 5, 2010 — The merge begins

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  Helpful Books

  4679 readersAs extensive as this blog is, it’s not near as much fun to curl up with on the couch. Sometimes a book in hand, or close by on the desk, can be exactly what you need. There’s also a basic level of WordPress nowledge that this blog assumes one already has. This week, the WordPress

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  Upgrading to 3.0

  4019 readersOur buddy Pete went and wrote up a very detailed post on how to upgrade from WPMU to WordPress 3.0 if you are brave enough right now to try out the beta2. Pete steps through it manually, so be prepared for that. (and backup your site first). These instructions will still be relevant for the

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  WordPress 3.0 beta is out

  5832 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