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Wordpress MU and user registration grief

Wordpress MU (WPMU) is a great tool. It’s basically a fork from the main Wordpress software that lets you set up and maintain potentially vast numbers of blogs from a single codebase. It’s particularly popular with universities and HE institutions, such as Harvard Law School (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu), and a range of UK universities including here at Kent. Why [ READ MORE ]

wordpress mu XSRF

Cross-site request forgery (XSRF). It’s something that’s becoming a big issue in internet security, and yet is still relatively poorly understood by many developers. If you don’t already know what it is, you can find an excellent introduction in wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSRF In a nutshell, anything on your website is a security risk if it lets someone modify [ READ MORE ]

Wordpress MU 2.7 released

Finally, after much holding of breath and anticipation, Wordpress 2.7 and its swanky interface comes to MU-world. Yay! As is typical with the quasi-underground nature of Wordpress MU, version 2.7 wasn’t so much announced as… became apparent. ie. if you happened to download it you’d find the version number was different. A Wordpress MU forum thread showed [ READ MORE ]

wordpress mu and akismet: wordpress_API_key problems

A big problem for any blogger is spam comments, and the Akismet plugin for Wordpress is basically an essential item. It does its job really well, and on this blog I’m only aware of the occasional bit of spam. Hoorah for Akismet! But things aren’t quite so smooth if you need to do strange, weird things [ READ MORE ]

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