I’m kinda loving on WordPress MU. One of my recent projects required building web sites that pulled from a shared database. WordPress MU allowed me to create a one-button website builder for my client. WordPress MU calls them blogs, but my client will map a unique domain to each blog, and, well, [...]
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One-button website publishing using WordPress-mu
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How to get your command line PHP script working with WordPress-MU 2.7
OK, this one is obscure. I only post about what I can’t find on Google!
Until recently it has been possible to run command-line PHP scripts that include wp-config.php or wpmu-settings.php, in order to give those scripts access to WordPress globals like $wpdb, functions such as wp_insert_post etc.
These scripts worked with WordPress-MU until recently [...]
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How to change the number of posts shown in the WordPress admin area without hacking the core
It is easy to go in and hack the core WordPress files to change the hard-coded number, but I wanted to find a way to do it with a hook. That way, I could one day change the number of posts shown using controls in the interface.
Though there is no filter provided for the number [...]
How to give all new WPMU blogs default properties, theme and pages
I’ve been developing an application on Wordpress-MU and thought I’d share a cool tip.
When new web sites are generated by my client, I wanted the experience to be painless; a one-button ready-to-go web site.
It turns out there is an action hook (of course there is!) when a new blog is created. So let’s get down [...]