How Do You MU?

I’ve only just noticed that the WordPress Codex now includes a page about WPMU. This is yet another sign of WPMU’s importance to WordPress. Maybe I will edit the page to link to this blog…

James recently posted a couple of bits of theme-related news. One is that he has removed the grey bar from the top of this and each of the other 3000+ edublogs. Thanks for that!

The other is that he’s made the Fauna theme available. In fact, I’m currently using it on my Management Prof blog. It’s good for WordPress, and even better for WPMU, that the theme can be modified without direct access to its source code. Fauna is one of two themes I know about that allows this, Regulus being the other.

These two things are related, not just because they help us have better-looking blogs, but also because they suggest ways in which WPMU blogs can credit their host (edublogs in this case) in a variety of ways, depending on what each blogger finds appealing and attractive.

For example, I think it would be possible to make available a Fauna header graphic that included an edublogs logo.

It is certainly possible, in some themes other than Fauna and Regulus, to display images as part of links. There is currently a very clumsy example in the sidebar of this blog. A link to edublogs, including a logo, would be an appropriate part of the sidebar of this blog. I’m sure that other edubloggers would feel similar.

I hereby re-suggest an EduBlogs logo design contest…

I started keeping track of WPMU host sites on Sep 10, 2005. The WPMU Hosts link category started off with 5 such sites. A little later, I started keeping del.icio.us track of WPMU hosts, so that anyone interested could subscribe to the feed.

I’m now adding the 50th host to the list. Welcome, Blogates! Thanks to all the people running WPMU hosts, and to the developers.

I’ve just seem (and replied to) a couple of interesting things over at the MU forums:

• The announcment of Blogg.com, which is I think the 49th WPMU host site.
• A discussion of when it is best to go with WPMU, as opposed to multiple WP installations. This is an important issue for people wanting to offer WP blogs.

If the above link to the forums doesn’t work, try this one.

I’m having trouble getting to mu.wordpress.org. Firefox 1.5 thinks it needs to launch an application to use the MU site. IE doesn’t (he reported, with mixed feelings). I’m not sure whether this is related to the problem James recently reported.