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  2.9.1 released, last before merge

  6890 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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  The merge begins

  6258 readersRyan has posted a short notice in the developer blog that the merge of the WPMU codebase will be starting in WordPress trunk very soon. It’s likely to be a bit rocky, so fasten your seatbelts, put your tray in the upright position and secure all valuables. If you are playing along with the home game,

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  SharDB update

  21542 readersI updated SharDB (Download) for WordPress MU 2.9.1.1 and added support for the comment meta table. December 29, 2009 — Scaling WordPress MU with multiple databases (31) September 24, 2009 — Changing the domain (17) January 21, 2010 — Testers, start your engines (6) January 14, 2010 — 2.9.1 released, last before merge (6) January 6, 2010 — Merge News

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  Disabling the update reminder 3.0

  6311 readersI’ve updated my disable the update reminder plugin for WP 3.0. Actually, this version will work in 2.6 and newer versions of both WordPress and WordPress MU. The original post and download: Disable WP / WPMU version check (81). If you haven’t used the plugin before, just drop it in your mu-plugins folder. April 12,

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  Testers, start your engines

  6377 readersThe bulk of the merge has been done in WordPress core. At least with regards to moving over the files. Now the fun part begins: bug gardening, testing and tweaking. Here’s what you can do to help not only the dev team and others, but also yourself: - set up a local install of WPMU - import some

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  BuddyPress Child Themes

  4400 readersHere are the slides from my presentation at WordCamp Chicago this weekend: BuddyPress Child Themes View more presentations from Ron Rennick. June 9, 2010 — I went to WordCamp Chicago and all you get is this lousy blog post (2) December 27, 2009 — Merge news and Buddypress awesomeness (7) December 1, 2009 — More

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  Should you use WPMU?

  4264 readersWith news of the merge of the Wordpress & WordPressMU codebase becoming more widespread, one of the questions I get asked with increasing frequency is should someone start a new site based on MU or should they wait for the merge. My answer? It depends. Is it time-critical? Do you need it up and running sooner rather

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  2.9.2 released

  6807 readersYesterday, Donncha released WordPress MU version 2.9.2. 2.9.2 contains fixes for the major outstanding bugs in MU. Unless a security issue surfaces in either WordPress or WordPress MU, this is expected to be the last version of MU. Thanks Donncha January 14, 2010 — 2.9.1 released, last before merge (6) November 26, 2009 — Facebook Dashboard Widget

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  WPMU trac now read-only

  5023 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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  BuddyPress Author Link

  4102 readersI’ve updated my BuddyPress Blog Author Link plugin for WordPress 3.0. I also added support for a single WordPress install. You can download it here. June 28, 2010 — Another Featured Posts update (12) July 21, 2010 — Theme Stats Updated (0) June 27, 2010 — Network Privacy (9) June 21, 2010 — Everything you