MU Advanced: An Advanced Discussion Community

By Luke, Thunder Lounge
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We interrupt our regularly scheduled discussion of all things NASCAR to give a shout out to a little side project of mine.

If WordPress, and specifically WordPress MU doesn’t interest you and leaves you scratching your head, you’re free to carry on about your day. We’ll be back on topic in a few.

If you are interested in WordPress MU, I have put together a little community over here specifically for the discussion of advanced issues in regards to WordPress Multi User (MU, or µ if you prefer).

Thanks to the assistance of Dr. Mike, Ron and Andrea, Andrew, and James, we’ve begun the building blocks for a solid community where advanced issues with WordPress MU can be discussed, hashed out to death, and then a solid piece of information can be given back to the MU community in a single post at the beginning of a thread in the official forums.

If topics like server load, database and code efficiency, advanced feature coding and discussion, advanced theme generation, and other such “geeky” topics have no interest for you, this isn’t your kinda place. If you are trying MU out, and can’t change a link color in CSS, or don’t have any idea what a custom template or function is, then this isn’t for you.

OK, that’s a little harsh, but seriously folks, we’re discussing a piece of server level software that requires advanced knowledge to begin with, and then diving further into it.

If you’re not scared off yet, or just perpetually curious, feel free to drop by and take a look.

Anyone may register, and join the discussion, and it’s highly encouraged to do so. Just let it be known that it’s for advanced discussion, and not for general MU support. They have a forum for that, and that’s not what this is about.

The reason for this community is two fold.

First, as previously mentioned, we can work out issues and discuss them through to a solution which can then be posted in the official forums in the first post. There’s lots of good information over there, but more times than not you have to wade through and piece together the solution. This aims to make it better in that regard.

Second, is that unfortunately MU draws a variety of people to it. To be honest, most of them don’t have the basic skill set to be successful with running MU. Nothing against those folks personally, we all can’t be a master of everything. However, it has lead to a downturn in the official forums where a lot of topics follow common traits, and have made it difficult to really discuss real issues at hand. Most topics started there have either been answered before and the user failed to search, the topic is something that wouldn’t need be asked if the users skill level were commensurate with what the software requires, and the biggest one of late has been users not even knowing they were in the MU forums and posting questions about WordPress in general. The last one has been bad lately especially.

When you come to the advanced community, there is no doubt about where you are. It looks nothing like any of the “official” sites, which other than a little µ in the logo, obviously a minor difference in the url, and a slight difference in the page links up top, they both look the same to someone without a clue.

When a large portion of the questions asked on the main forum can be replied to with one of 3 canned responses, there is an issue.

For these reasons, that’s why this new discussion community has been forged. To get out of the way of the junk, discuss true issues, and bring them to the masses.

Sporting a nice FAQ about MU, and some other goodies, any MU administrator can stand to find something of interest.

Just be warned, we have no problem closing a topic that is below the level of conversation. If you need to learn PHP, MySQL, Linux, Apache, HTML, CSS, or any of the basic skills, there are plenty of resources out there. If you need basic MU support, they have their own forum.

In closing, I’d like to thank Dynamic Systems and Content Solutions for their amazing Sphinx Portal, which is what our Advanced WordPress MU Discussion Community is running. If you need a portal and forum solution, give it a shot and you won’t be disappointed.

That’s all folks, back to driving fast and turning left.

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By Luke, Thunder Lounge
Sunday February 25, 2007
9:45am CST
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So we’ve received a few questions in regards to what’s been going on around the Lounge, and what we’ve been doing with our time. Well, that’s a legitimate question and one I’m slightly reluctant to answer. Mainly from a ruining the upcoming surprise kinda deal, as we have quite a few tricks and improvements coming up in the near future.

OK, I guess the cat’s out of the bag with the image for the article, so we’ll add a few more cryptic tidbits to further peak your curiosity. Needless to say, I’ve been busting my tail on improvements. Both of the visual and underlying stability kind.

Before that, though, we’ll catch up with a couple of our featured columnists and their recent events. (Got ya! ;))

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By Luke, Thunder Lounge
Saturday January 13, 2007
2:09pm CST
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In an effort to give back to the WordPressµ community, Thunder Lounge is pleased to announce our Dashboard Notes plugin for WordPressµ as available.

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By Luke, Thunder Lounge
Tuesday January 9, 2007
10:17am CST
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Plugin Discontinued Until Further Notice

Unfortunately, due to exceptional time constraints and scheduling, this plugin has unfortunately been discontinued until further notice.

If you feel this plugin was useful, or at least the concept of it, feel free to discuss and vote for menu management on the Idea boards on WordPress.org.

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By Luke, Thunder Lounge
Tuesday January 9, 2007
9:58am CST
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[thumb:358:l:s=1:l=x]In an effort to give back to the WordPressµ community, Thunder Lounge is pleased to announce our Default Post Title plugin for WordPressµ as available.

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By Luke, Thunder Lounge
Tuesday January 9, 2007
9:46am CST
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Below you may contact us to report a problem with one of our plugins.

If you do not receive a response, don’t fret. We may or may not contact you about your report.

For the curious, a list of current verified issues is listed below the form.

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