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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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  Merge News

  9298 readersIf you are interested in keeping up with how the merge of WordPress & WordPress MU is progressing here is a list of resources that you can follow: WordPress Contributors Twitter list Andrea on Twitter The WordPress merge trac ticket Patches submitted to trunk related to the merge Latest changes in WordPress trac The WordPress development blog Let the fun begin

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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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  Testers, start your engines

  6379 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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  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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  Should you use WPMU?

  4267 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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  Proposed timeline

  5837 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

  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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  The age of Thelonious and WordPress 3.0

  6856 readersThe penny has dropped, the vuvuzelas have sounded and the kitties have played themselves out. WordPress 3.0 has been officially released. Check out the official release post from Matt. I’ve been watching the download counter whirl by. This release marks the official end of separate WordPressMU development. The exisiting functionality is now a part of