Automattic launches WordPress MU 2.6
Automatic, the company that produces the poular Wordpress platform has made available the latest version of their multi-blogging platform - Wordpress MU 2.6.
Ocaoimh.ie reports on some of the new features in this release of MU:
1. Version number is 2.6 rather than 1.6 because it just makes sense to synchronise the major version numbers.
2. Signup page now has a nonce which should help in the fight against spammers, for a short while anyway.
3. Redirecting to the signup page for 404s and for unknown blogs is not enabled by default. Check out wp-config-sample.php for instructions.
4. “allowed_themes” filter, much like the plugins filtered added previously.
5. New functions: get_id_from_blogname(), is_main_blog().
6. get_blog_details() can now take a blogname as well as a blog_id.
7. Custom first posts didn’t always work. Now they do.
8. Blognames in the “Add blog” form in wpmu-blogs.php are now sanitized.
9. Added “pre_site_option_*” and “site_option_*” filters like the similar option filters.
10. Meta fields will be passed on signup again.
11. Added an “admin_header_navigation” filter so the top right navigation in the backend can be customised.
12. The signup page uses “blogname” instead of “blog_id” to avoid confusion with the global variable of the same name. Plugins will break if not updated!
If you’ve ever considered running your own blog network à la 9rules Network or b5Media, then this is a solid piece of software - best of all it’s FREE!
Here are a few sites that I found that are using the Wordpress MU platform -