ny university worth the title is likely to have a very mixed identity environment. At Plymouth State University we’ve been pursuing a strategy of unifying identity and offering single sign-on to web services, but an inventory last year still revealed a great number of systems not integrated with either our single sign-on (AuthN) or authorization [...]
Posted September 29, 2009 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: authentication, CAS, hacks, identity, identity management, idm, login, single sign on, university portal, wordpress, WordPress MU. 7 Comments.
Situation: you’ve got WordPress Multi-User setup to host one or more domains in sub-directory mode (as in site.org/blogname), but you want a deeper directory structure than WPMU allows…something like the following examples, perhaps:
site.org/blogname1
site.org/departments/blogname2
site.org/departments/blogname3
site.org/services/blogname3
The association between blog IDs and sub-directory paths is determined in wpmu-settings.php, but the code there knows nothing about nested paths. So a [...]
Posted September 15, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: cms, hack, hacks, information architecture, url path, wordpress, WordPress MU, wpmu. 6 Comments.
strong>Situation: using WordPress MU (possibly including BuddyPress) on multiple domains or sub-domains of a large organization with lots of users.
WordPress MU is a solid CMS to support a large organization. Each individual blog has its own place in the organization’s URL scheme (www.site.org/blogname), and each blog can have its own administrators and other users. Groups [...]
Posted September 3, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: authentication, cms, cookies, hacks, sub-domains, wordpress, WordPress MU. 4 Comments.
The BuddyPress forums have a number of threads about handling invitations (two worth looking at: one, two), but no real solution has emerged. At the same time, there’s also a need for some means of confirming other actions such as password resets, email changes (both of those are already handled by WPMU, I know), cell [...]
Posted April 17, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: api, BuddyPress, challenge response, framework, invitation, wordpress, WordPress MU. 2 Comments.
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. 2 Comments.
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.