The WPMU Plugin Commander from FireStats is a plugin management plugin for WPMU, released under GPL, which allows you mark any plugin in the non-mu plugins directory to be automatically activated, and also…

The WPMU Video Solution Framework contains a full video solution framework, including transcoder and administration interface utilities, written in PHP. The code was developed by Automattic Inc, and powers wordpress.com video solutions.

This is perhaps the most important plug-in for Wordpress MU and are surprised it is not already part of the core functionality of Wordpress MU. Perhaps they are waiting for Buddypress to save the day…?

There are countless Wordpress plug-ins for dealing with Google Maps, but of the English language ones that are officially updated via the Wordpress Plug-In Directory, but of them all, those that sounded the most interesting after reading their descriptions, which included GeoPress, WP Geo, Geo Mashup, GoogleMapper and the phenomenal UMapper…

Once upon a time, it was common place to automatically install Binary Moon’s Custom Login Plugin as a way of re-branding Wordpress, but if you have already upgraded to Wordpress 2.7 or higher, at this stage, the only plugin available for re-branding the log-in screen is the new Custom Admin Branding plugin from Pressing Pixels, [...]

The Wordpress More Fields plugin adds boxes to the Write/Edit page. These boxes contains input fields, so that additional (more) fields can be added to a post. For example, if you write about books, you can add a box where you can enter title and author, etc.

Yoast.com is the home of the Dutch WordPress developer and online marketer Joost de Valk. You will find everything you need to optimize your website or WordPress blog here, as he is quite clearly the king of optimisation…

Only moment ago, BuddyPress finally found it’s Beta testing stage and is available for download. BuddyPress will transform an installation of WordPress MU into a social network platform. Essentially, BuddyPress is a set of WordPress MU specific plugins, each plugin adding a distinct new feature. BuddyPress contains all the features you’d expect from WordPress but [...]

Planet Ozh released a wicked-cool article outlining the journey we have taken as users as far as the Wordpress back-end is concerned, and how it has evolved over the years into what can now quite clearly be called a masterpiece!

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Why use an inferior Wordpress Google Maps plug-in when your theme can be the map itself…? The WPMU gMaps theme is truly unique, in that each page is a full-screen Google map with fully interactive overlays!  Specifically built for Wordpress MU, the theme provides out of the [...]

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For those wishing they could go back to an older version of the MU default theme, or see other important changes, the Wordpress MU Trac system keeps track of all the previous releases of Wordpress MU.

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The WPMU Farm Spectagular Pack contains a whopping 94 themes, many with customizable headers, all fixed up to work with MU (i.e. not an ounce of user code required) and best of all - completely set up for tags and so 100% WPMU 1.3 / WP 2.3.1 compatible. Not the [...]

The Freemium WP Theme is as customizable as it gets while looking good on most popular browsers. FREEmium theme was designed by Paul Kadysz and developed by Dariusz Siedlecki . Both guys did excellent job. And thanks to freebiesdock.com you can download the theme for free!

Viewport features a clean and simple layout with sliding ‘panels’ displaying images to represent posts. It also features a user-changeable background (color or image) and other customizable elements. Depending on the image quality you use, the main images are likely to be between 50KB and 300KB each, for that reason it is recommended to edit your Wordpress settings to display around 10 posts per page.

The unique feature about the ClearPress theme is that it divides the blog posts into three separate columns. So, if you have set your blog to show 9 posts on the home page, they will be divided into 3 columns consisting of 3 posts each. The theme also features a pull-down sidebar which is totally unobtrusive and contains three widgetized sidebars. ClearPress is Gravatar-ready, Image Gallery ready, and consists of beautifully styled comments and archive pages.

Having once been known to cause major problems with Wordpress MU, Ozh’s WPs Theme Development Toolkit, which allows designers to easily add theme options into the back end seems to be working relatively well with Wordpress MU, which is why we have added it under this category.

In this updated hack, and should you be brave enough to edit the functions.php file, you will not only be able to provide the total number of blogs and users, but will also be able to display the five most recently added blogs with a description of each blog and a link to it…

Although this is strictly speaking a built-in function of Wordpress MU, it sometimes get forgotten, when all it takes is a few lines of code to produce some interesting results, such as how many blogs and users you have…

If you would like to give your Wordpress RSS feed full GeoRSS compatibility, it’s really quite simple, which is why we have posted this hack for those looking to incorporate Geo-Blogging functionality directly into their themes, or that need a step in the right direction as far as developing your first Geo-Tagged plug-in…

This nifty little hack will display a post and comment count and can be easily edited, but basically, all you need to do is paste the following code into your PHP file where you want the sentence displayed…

If you need a little more customisation and or a slightly better grasp of what’s going-on within the back-end of themes, perhaps Ozh’s Theme Toolkit is not enough. Fortunately, In The Woods added a detailed explanation of how to build your own options page, which can be customised as much as needed.

Glen Stansberry wrote a useful article on Nettuts outlining some useful resources for Wordpress plug-in development.

Ruhani Rabin has written a wonderful article outlining how he was able to integrate Wordpress with Facebook via the new Connect platform, well worth a read and a scratch of the chin as you figure out whether it’s something you want to do to your blog or not.

Elliot Swan’s extremely useful Postable application is an online tool for easily converting code into WP-Friendly text that you can then paste into your article and be certain that it looks just as you wanted it to. We use it to convert our hacks into friendly phrases we can post here.