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Knowing just enough about WordPress MU to be dangerous.

New features in WPMU 2.9.1

January 18th, 2010 · 5 Comments

In his post about how to add commentmeta tables to your WordPress MU database, Donncha said …
…nothing quite like the stress of upgrading and finding that something has broken.
So true. I’m just happy nothing broke during our recent upgrade to WPMU 2.9.1, because apparently the upgrade function can choke when creating all those tables. We [...]

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Trimming the Fat

December 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

Simple SQL query to delete old WordPress post draft revisions using PHP MyAdmin

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WordPress MU Upgrade Complete

October 31st, 2009 · No Comments

WordPress MU 2.8.5.2 upgrade completed successfully

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Quick Fix for WordPress Trackback DoS Exploit

October 20th, 2009 · No Comments

One thing about the WordPress development community, is that they are on top of things when it comes to potential exploits of the system. Just this morning there were numerous reports of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks upon hosted WordPress websites and WPMU blog communities, like this one. Steve Fortuna quickly posted a fix. Within [...]

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New Easy Method for Embedding Videos

October 19th, 2009 · No Comments

The dangers of Unfiltered MU forw Wordpress MU blogs and Viper’s Video Quicktags plugin for easy embedding of YouTube movies in WPMU blog posts.

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I am impressed. And relieved.

September 29th, 2009 · No Comments

WordPress makes importing blogs simple. Now, this may not be specific to MU, in fact it isn’t. But after burying myself in database dumps far too deep for for my liking while migrating Jerry’s original blog to this new Tripawds Blogs community, I was prepared for the worst when users asked about importing existing Blogger [...]

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