Writing Plugins for WordPress/MUse
Ron Rennick
It has been about 6 months since Matt announced that WordPress & WordPress MU would be merged into a single codebase. It took Andrea & I few days to get used to the idea. But, it didn’t take long before we were excited and looking forward to it. Time flies. We are 6 months closer.
Although the final implementation hasn’t been sketched out, once the merge has taken place, it’s reasonable to expect that any WordPress install running the latest version will be able to turn on the multiple blog functionality in a few minutes.
WordPress 2.8 has been downloaded over 8.2 million times. The potential is there for any of those WordPress admins to turn the multiple blog feature on to try it out which means that eventually nearly all plugins will be tried in a multiple blog scenario.
Many of the plugins available in the repository work in both WordPress and WordPress MU. But, not all plugins written for WordPress work the way they were intended when they are activated in WordPress MU. In this session, we will look at tips, tricks & traps of writing plugins compatible with both WordPress and WordPress MU.
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