Behind the Scenes

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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Tripawds Supporter Blog subscriptions are automatically renewed via PayPal, based on the renewal term selected when upgrading the blog. If a PayPal subscription is canceled before the renewal date, enhanced Supporter blog functions will be deactivated upon the renewal date, no sooner.
This is all made possible using the Supporter plugin available with our WPMU Dev [...]

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

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How to create Blogger style ring of blogs for navigating Tripawds WPMU blog community in StumbleUpon fashion using WordPress MU pluins and simple theme code.

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WordPress MU 2.8.5.2 upgrade completed successfully

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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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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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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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Migrating Jerry’s regular ol’ WordPress blog to WordPress MU was no easy task. In fact, it was downright nerve-wracking at times. But one look at the growing community of Tripawds Bloggers makes it all worthwhile. Knowing that pawrents are using their Tripawds Blogs to share their stories and photos is heartwarming. And knowing they find [...]

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