Category Archives: WPMU

One BIG WordPress Site: A Case Study

By Esther | July 27th, 2009
I recently finished a big project, a few months in the making, that tests the limits of "WordPress as a CMS." At some points in development, I wondered if it was a crazy idea to do this all in WordPress -- but the easy UI (for my client) and quick development (for me) made it [...]
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Media Buttons fixed in WPMu 2.6.2

By Esther | September 30th, 2008

Reading Donncha’s WPMu 2.6.2 announcement this morning made me very happy. Especially this part:
3. Configurable media buttons on the Write page. #598, #738
Something that I’ve been working on for the Smith WPMu install is making it easy/intuitive to make rich content. This means being able to add images, video, audio, links, tags, categories, and dynamic [...]

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New uses for WPMu at Smith

By Esther | September 24th, 2008

I just met with some folks from College Relations to talk about how they could use WordPress for faculty bios, which got me totally amped! They want to make faculty responsible for updating their own bios, which was being done with Adobe Contribute, with much resistance from the faculty.
We discussed what the best strategy would [...]

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That’s one way to build a dynamic front page for WPMU…

By Esther | September 9th, 2008

A few months ago, I started working on a WordPress MU (multi-user) install to host the few blogs at Smith College ITS. Once I got it setup, it seemed like the next logical step to open the install up to other people on campus. Hosting 10 blogs isn’t any harder than 1000 from an administrative [...]

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