Reactivating Theme and Plugin Editors in WordPressMU

It’s like camping with a Therm-a-Rest. They tell you not to blow into it. They say it’s important to just let it sit and it will self-inflate. Don’t blow it up. That’s bad. But everyone does it. It’s the same with the WordPress core. They say “Don’t hack core,” but everyone does it. Well, almost everyone. Actually, maybe just one or two of us. Anyway, I’d never...

Scrivener: The Best Writing Software, Full Stop.

As Christmas descends upon us, a couple of people have asked me if there is anything specific that I want. This year, I have a very unusual answer. Software. But only if that software is Scrivener. It’s the best writing software, full stop. I’ve been a writer for basically my entire life, and in that time, I’ve used basically every possible method you can think of to get my thoughts into words on a...

Migrating from WordPress to WordPressMU, Part II

This is the second part of a series on migrating a site from a single installation WordPress blog to a WordPressµ multi-user implementation. It assumes you have everything installed and have taken the steps in part 1 of the series. If you’re not interested in managing WordPress systems then move along. There’s nothing to see here.So, now we’ve done all of our preparatory work, we’re ready to...

Migrating From WordPress to WordPressMU (without wildcard subdomains)

Recently, Positively Glorious! had a major failure and I eventually migrated everything from one blog to a WordPressµ installation. This allows me to host multiple blogs on one installation and save the time of maintaining the 11 blogs I was previously pulling my hair out over. Later, a friend read about my experience and thought about doing the same thing and I told her I’d get details to her, and then I...

This one’s really going to get me into trouble

Okay, people. I know you have the power to change the world now, but sometimes you want to change the world into something that’s just really dumb. The current explosion of social media outlets sure has its problems. Well, more correctly, it has issues that we have not yet had time to process in such a way that those issues are truly incorporated into our culture.1 Witness, for instance, the Facebook...