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
9161 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
4179 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
6148 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,
20575 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
6276 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
5748 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,
5839 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
3886 readersIf you have been testing out the beta of WordPress, and are new to the whole concept of multiple sites, you may have noted a lot of the wordpress-mu-specific plugins make reference to the mu-plugins folder. This is not created by default. You must create it in the wp-content folder. The “mu” does not stand
4039 readersWhen you created a network of multiple sites in WordPress 3.0, you (the main blog admin) because a Super Admin with all kinds of fun powers. In some situations, you may desire to have additional Super Admins who can do things like install plugins & themes, perform upgrades, and manage global users and sites. If