The news about BuddyPress has fully shifted my attention from single-blog WordPress installs to multi-user, multi-blog installs.
WordPress mu is my platform of choice, but I was quite fond of Lyceum when I first learned of it a while ago. The big perceived advantage of Lyceum is that it uses a unified table structure for all [...]
Posted August 11, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: blogging, Lyceum, multiple users, wordpress, WordPress MU. Be the first one.
Facebook and MySpace are trying to turn themselves into application platforms (how else will they monetize their audience?). Google is pushing OpenSocial to compete with it. But no matter what features they offer their users, they user still orbits the site.
Scot Hacker talks of BuddyPress changing the game, turning “social networks” from destination websites, [...]
Posted June 16, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: BuddyPress, evolution, social networking, social networks, WordPress MU. One Comment.
I have a lot of WordPress sites I manage and I’ve been thinking about converting them to WordPress MU sites to consolidate management. Today I attempted the first one, about.Scriblio.net. There’s no proper way of doing it that I found, but here’s what I did:
Create a new site in MU
Create the users in the correct [...]
Posted June 5, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: conversion, mu, site management, upgrading, wordpress, WordPress MU. 2 Comments.