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WordPress Membership Plugin

Published on 10/6/2010 at 9:27 am

If you’re looking for the best WP membership plugin out there, and you;re already a WPMU DEV Member, you’ve just got it.

If you’re not a WPMU DEV member then it’s still the most affordable, functional and best supported paid members plugin you’ll find.

Check out the brand new WPMU DEV membership plugin here!

Just a taster…

You can use Membership to create…

  • A WordPress membership site, offering resources, forums, downloads, videos, support and more… with multiple different levels of membership and complete customizations
  • Multiple membership sites on a WPMU / WordPress MultiSite install – so any user of your site can have their own membership site, combine with Supporter to make this a feature they pay for – or you could run dozens of membership sites yourself
  • A BuddyPress membership site, where different groups and blogs are only visible to members, so members can join for free and then upgrade to key groups and forums

How to migrate from Ning to BuddyPress

Published on 19/4/2010 at 9:47 am

Gotta say, I’m completely amazed at the brilliant WPMU DEV turnaround speed and comprehensive goodness of this!

(nothing to do with me either, I’ve been out stuck at airports most of the weekend)

But check out the unreal new Ning to BuddyPress plugin now on offer at WPMU DEV.

Of course, this follows the news that Ning has culled free networks, if you really are interested in forming, sustaining and developing a great network (that you actually own!)… BuddyPress is a great place to start :)

The sploggers, they ‘aint happy

Published on 2/2/2010 at 7:43 am

Our new Anti Splog plugin for WPMU is upsetting the day of quite a few sploggers over at Edublogs… and they are taking the time to write in about it and tell us :D

Bear in mind they have all been manually submitted, by manual sploggers, to us, so that we might un-ban their blog. Here’s my favourite:

“this is not a spam, i’m just posting about a weight loss program!”

Want to play soccer (football!) in Melbourne?

Published on 4/1/2010 at 10:55 am

If you’re looking to play soccer (y’know, the *real* football) in Melbourne, then you should check out the Eltham Redbacks!

With two brand new pitches, teams at all levels and all ages and a great atmosphere… you can’t go wrong.

Find out more at their rather snazzy (yet still to be improved!) WordPress site :)

Demo BuddyPress Themes

Published on 20/11/2009 at 12:16 pm

BTW, if you’re getting into BuddyPress, you might be interested in our rather swanky new BuddyPress Themes demo site.

Help and support edublogging ninja?

Published on 18/9/2009 at 2:16 pm

We’re looking for someone who can figure out how to make widgets dance, plugins gambol and posts and pages sing!

Come and work with us at Edublogs in help and support :)

Deeply in love with Tree

Published on 17/9/2009 at 11:49 am

I can’t help it, I’m simply besotted by the Tree gmail theme :)
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Show us your WordPress MU & BuddyPress plugins

Published on 15/9/2009 at 1:00 am

The 2009 WordPress MU and BuddyPress Plugin Contest… is now open!

This follows on from the very successful 2008 contest, and we’re stumping up a cool $1000 to the prize pool for the winners!

Only conditions are that you write your announcement post on WPMU.org (host your plugin anywhere) and that your plugin is GPL.

Education technology marketing / sales consultants / firms?

Published on 17/8/2009 at 2:37 pm

Anyone know any great education technology marketing / sales consultants?

Looking for firms / people that can assist in helping us drive up Campus sales – can be by direct means or not.

And / or people / companies who’d like to act represent us on commission / other terms.

This is definitely the year that I want Edublogs Campus to become a huge hit… we’ve got a brilliant functionality / backend technology / support thing going on and I reckon we’re ready for the mainstream!

Any help in finding the right people / firms would be mucho appreciated!

(am also tryingto set a record for the number of ///s on one post :)

BarCamp Melbourne has a WordCamp

Published on 15/8/2009 at 11:11 am

Good news, BarCamp Melbourne has a WordCamp group.

Although it does look like they could do with a few of our new BuddyPress Themes :)

Not sure if I’ll be able to make it – but it looks like it’ll be fun!

Need BuddyPress installed?

Published on 5/8/2009 at 9:11 am

Or how about WordPress MU + bbPress + BuddyPress plus every WPMU DEV Premium plugin and theme we offer?

Well, guess what, now you can starting from only US$95 at WP.MU :)

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Part 2

Published on 22/7/2009 at 6:23 pm

Part 2 of my WPMU-focused Herald interview.

Me on the herald

Published on 21/7/2009 at 9:20 pm

Catch the first part of a very enjoyable and frank interview I did with Thord of the Blog Herald here – lots of WPMU stuff for ya to get your teeth into.

WordPress MU Support – where to find it

Published on 21/7/2009 at 12:01 pm

Sue’s put together a post on all the different places you can find WordPress MU support – it’s a great list!

Join the Edublogs Crew

Published on 15/7/2009 at 2:04 pm

We’re looking for an Edublogs Campus Sales Manager to join the Edublogs crew… you can be based wherever suits, work whatever hours you like, get involved in marketing and product development at Edublogs and make a sizeable packet while you are at it :)

Here’s the position description for download - share it with your friends and there’s a $250 finders fee if they turn out to be the successful candidate.

Creating a WPMU community

Published on 22/6/2009 at 6:31 pm

The first rule of WPMU communities, is that there’s no WPMU :)

3.doh

Published on 19/6/2009 at 3:39 pm

Bloody iPhone 3.0 has just completely bricked (restore broken) my 3g… it wasn’t even jailbroken, just plain ol’ vanilla :(

Partner with us!

Published on 18/6/2009 at 12:28 pm

Check out or new affiliate programs for WP.MU and WPMU DEV Premium.

Refer us just one BuddyPress + bbPress + WPMU install and we’ll send you 33% of the fee – that’s $97.35… not bad huh!

Oh, and did I mention that you can now get BuddyPress installation at WP.MU :)

It’s WPMU week :)

Published on 9/6/2009 at 11:21 am

To celebrate the revamp of the new WPMU DEV Premium site we’re going a bit WPMU crazy this week, including releasing a new theme/plugin every day this week (today it’s a great bbpress theme) and serializing the WPMU Manual (which is otherwise only available for Premium members).

Today you can get started with choosing a domain name / hosting platform and setting up your MySQL database and user.

WPMU DEV Premium Revamp

Published on 5/6/2009 at 3:41 pm

In case you’re wondering what I’ve been up to the last few weeks, hopefully the new look WPMU DEV Premium will do the explaining for me :)

There are now extra WordPress MU plugins, better support forums, an all new wpmu jobs board and information on things like Premium BuddyPress plugins.

And… everything on there is now GPL!

Misc

Published on 20/5/2009 at 12:02 pm

Haven’t posted one of these for a while… ever possibly!

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Interview with Sue re: Edubloggin’

Published on 14/5/2009 at 9:52 am

Great interview with Sue about Edublogs and Edublogging – well worth reading through to the bottom for the other interesting projects

Blogs.mu

Published on 12/5/2009 at 8:55 am

Told you I had some exciting news didn’t I :)

Go check out Blogs.mu, and, for a bit more information there’s an interview with me on Problogger, an article about Blogs.mu site in Mashable and one in Inquisitr too.

Or you can catch an informal technical lowdown at wpmu.org.

Fun!

Something big is happening tomorrow

Published on 11/5/2009 at 1:35 pm

I can’t tell you yet, but I think you’re going to like it… oooo, the anticipation!