UMW Blogs Documentation updated for WPMu 2.6

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WPMu Sitewide Tags, Feeds, & Archives! Oh, My!

So….so so so so so so, it’s time for a little walk down WPMu history lane. Last year at this time I was desparately scrambling for a way to have sitewide tags for UMW Blogs. I found the solution in Dr. Mike’s hack shared on the WordPress forums here, but it was a kind of [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “WPMu Sitewide Tags, Feeds, & Archives! Oh, My!”, url: “http://bavatuesdays.com/wpmu-sitewide-tags-feeds-archives-oh-my/” });

A List of Plugins Used on the Bava

I have been meaning to use David Benini’s Plugins List plugin (I love plugins about plugins–the meta-plugin!) which simply allows you to include a list of all the plugins you are using on your site. Simple, yet potentially very useful for others, and a way to give a shout out for all the hardworking folks [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “A List of Plugins Used on the Bava”, url: “http://bavatuesdays.com/a-list-of-plugins-used-on-the-bava/” });

Playing with WPMu 2.6 beta 1

I have upgraded bavatuesdays (and six other domains I tend on one WPMu install) to the beta release of WPMu 2.6 in anticipation of upgrading UMW Blogs come August 1st. In fact, the next few weeks are going to be an all out WPMu push. I will be working on updating all our [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Playing with WPMu 2.6 rc 1″, url: “http://bavatuesdays.com/playing-with-wpmu-26-rc-1/” });

Reading Capital, Part 3: Forums vs. Discourse

World Forum 1 image courtesy of Dunechaser.
This part of the Reading Capital discussion framework looks at the Reading Capital Forums (powered by bbPress) and a feature called Discourse which is the theme Prologue for WordPress blogs that offers a similar functionality as Twitter without the 140 character limitation. Despite what the title of this [...]

Reading Capital, Part 2: Blogs, Feeds, and Aggregation

Marx and Engels lego photo used courtesy of Dunechaser
So I’m finally returning to creating a discussion framework for the Reading Capital site. I will detail my thinking for the design of the site below (and in at least two subsequent posts), and I invite any and all recommendations and criticisms. It’s a model that is [...]

Self-Service Feed Aggregation with WPMu

This post will detail how to create an aggregator site wherein people can simply add their feeds to a site and have their content automatically re-published. This example is specifically for WordPress and/or WordPress Multi-User. It depends upon three plugins, so download them ahead of time from the links below:

1) Oz Politics’s BDP RSS [...]