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  The merge begins

  4612 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

  5563 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

  5962 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

  4813 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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  WPMU Default User Role

  2000 readersDeanna & Kevin released the WPMU Default User Role plugin earlier this week. In WordPress MU, new users are added to the site’s dashboard blog if the site admin has created one. Otherwise the user is added to the main blog in the WPMU site. With the default user role plugin, you can specify additional blogs

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  Disabling the update reminder 3.0

  2945 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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  Bulk Import Users

  2697 readersI had a few requests to update the Bulk Import Members plugin, so that it did not require BuddyPress to be installed and that it work with WordPress MU 2.8.6. Other changes: it now goes in the plugins folder & activates sitewide. The only users who have access to the plugin are site admins. it

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  Merge news and Buddypress awesomeness

  3151 readersHope you guys all had a wonderful holiday. We took some much needed time off. Onward to the good stuff! Now that WordPress 2.9 is out the door, the dev team (Donncha, plus the regular WordPress team) can start working on 3.0, where the merge of wpmu will be rolled in. In case you missed it,

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  Should you use WPMU?

  2893 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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  Sitewide Tags 0.4

  1280 readersAndrea & I use Donncha’s Sitewide Tags Blog for global content aggregation on any client installs that use sitewide content. Over the last year I’ve made at least a dozen custom versions of it. Most of those do some combination of the features listed below. This week we tested and released a new version. The