Clean up your home page and save space with this simple technique. There are quite a few tutorials available for sliding login panels, but I wanted to present this one because it’s a fairly minimalist, bare-bones example that you can customize further.

First, we need to understand what a splog is. Essentially, it is nothing more than a bot that creates “junk” blogs and embeds links to the splogger’s main site, usually for no other reason than to increase its page rank through trackbacks. They usually seek out the wp-signup.php page that is present in every default WPMU installation. One could simply change the name of the file to something like registration.php and make corresponding changes to all of the references to wp-signup.php in all of the themes used. While effective, this was not the best course of action for me, considering all of the themes used on my blogs. Instead, I dug a little deeper and found some interesting info.

TimThumb is a popular image resizing script that was created for Mimbo Pro – but it’s never worked properly with WordPress MU, so I wanted to change that.

We’ve all seen it, the massive tags results page at wordpress.com. I’ve been asked a few times how it was done, then realized while writing it out for someone that I hadn’t yet written up and posted a full-blown tutorial. So, here yo

Wordpress MU (the multi-user/multi-blog version of WordPress) supports a basic post by email feature but it involves each user setting up their account to go out to an external email address and picking up the email. This seems rather “backwards” as it means your WPMU server is having to go out to find your new posts, and if you’ve got a lot of blogs then that’s potentially a lot of outgoing POP3 requests and it means that your have got the email account and passwords for your users, which some might see as not being a very good idea. WPMU suggest using a specific account to support posting by email and keeping the account “secret”.

Migrating a WordPress site can be something of a scary challenge, but we do it a lot, and we’ve become used to it. There are many good reasons to move a site – for example, you might set one up in a subfolder, and decide to move WP to the root. Or perhaps you’ve built a site on localhost and now need to put it on a live server.

Here I show you the steps we take moving a localhost site to a live domain. We’re using WPMU which is running the BuddyPress plugin suite.