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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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  2.9.1 released, last before merge

  6893 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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  Proposed timeline

  5840 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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  Get a list of the latest sites or blogs in the network

  2872 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

  6409 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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  BuddyPress rc1

  5278 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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  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