February 28, 2008
Since my last post, I’ve added more functionality. It’s easy to grow when you’re a newborn!
- Farms-spectagular Theme Pack has increased the number of themes available by a couple orders of magnitude
- Added New/Updated/Active blogs widgets to this metablog
- Changed the theme here. That header image was distractingly huge! This new theme was easily customized with a W&M image to boot
I’ve also contacted the folks at Defensio to double-check where we fit in their licensing scheme. Defensio is a promising alternative to Akismet. Both are automated comment-spam-fighting tools. I’ve used Akismet with great success, but unfortunately for multi-user applications they want a monthly fee. Unless I’m reading the licensing wrong, I think we can use Defensio at no charge unless our host here becomes wildly popular.
There’s still plenty to do, but the lack of problems so far is keeping me excited & hopeful.
February 29th, 2008 at 7:39 am
Love the new theme. If we become wildly popular, we probably can find a few bucks to purchase Defensio and add our bit to the never-ending war against comment spam.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:49 am
This is great stuff, WPMu as a blogging/publishing platform will lead to a lot of possibilities for you all I’m sure. Let me know if you want to talk plugins, shop, etc., I do enjoy it so.
March 11th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Great to see the site up and running. Good luck to all of you–I’ll be reading along.
March 12th, 2008 at 9:22 am
Jim and Gardner– thanks for your comments! Jim, I’ve used your documentation of what’s worked on the UMW site from bavatuesdays.com extensively, so you’ve already been very helpful even if you didn’t realize it.
–John D