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WordPress MU 2.7 Out of the Box

Posted by Edward Caissie on January 30, 2009 with Comments Closed
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Just recently Donncha O Caoimh posted on his blog that WordPress Mu (2.7) was available. We have not had a great deal of time lately to stay on the bleeding edge of its development so this announcement was all we were waiting for to push two MU installations updates.

A quick review and some brief observations:

The combined time to update both WordPress Mu installations was slightly less than 20 minutes. An additional five minutes were needed to “fix” the “home” theme on the first installation. It was not a theme issue in as much as an installer issue. We are embarrassed to say we missed not over writing the theme folders during the update. We have a complete backup of all our active MU themes so the correction was made with a quick upload.

The general layout is very similar to a single user version of WordPress 2.7, with the exception of the newly included Admin bar by Viper007Bond at the top of the Dashboard screen. An unexpectedly nice touch that should be easily put to good use.

A job well done to all the developers and testers to get this to the public, we are looking forward to working more with this version of WordPress MU in the near future.

A curious question: how will you be using the new WordPress MU version 2.7?

WordPress MU Free Themes

Posted by Edward Caissie on December 31, 2008 with 1 Comment
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as blog, free themes, mu, screenshots, themes, WordPress MU, WPMU

As we have been reviewing WordPress MU and implementing small installations for niche groups we have found a few themes that we liked and have made adaptations to allow them to function, in our opinion, more easily in the WordPress MU environment with minimal editing required after installation. All of the original themes were freely available when we started working with them.

We would now like to share these themes we have adapted. So without a lot of fuss or muss, below you will find copies of the screenshots from each theme. Below the screenshots you find a link to the zipped file containing the themes. Simply unzip the file, and upload the themes to your WordPress MU / wp-content / themes directory and do not forget to activate them for your users.

We have left the original author details in the themes for reference purposes and we have added code to automatically add a link to your main blog of your WordPress MU installation. We also added a Site Admin link to each theme that did not originally have one, simply because we believe there should always be a link on the page to access the dashboard with.

Enjoy!