Limiting disk space usage in WordPress MU

MU allows you to limit the amount of disk quota the blogs can use out of the box. However many site admins may want to be able to change this value per blog and for this an extra plugin is needed.

The plugin that seems to do the job is z-space (WPMUDev page) by Dylan [...]

WordPress MU First Impressions

I’m currently fiddling around with Lyceum and WordPress MU in an attempt to decide which is most suitable for a little community site I want to get going.

Installing MU is as simple as uploading the file base to the web root (or other location of your choice) and then visiting the site. Pop in [...]

Lyceum First Impressions

I tried installing Lyceum a few months back but couldn’t get it working right. Decided this evening to give the latest version (0.34) a whirl and I’m pleased to report it installs smoothly. Simply point the webroot at src/lyceum, pop the database info in the config file and go through the installation wizard and you’re [...]

Configuring Tracks on Servage

I’ve spent the last day trying to get support for a Tracks install on Servage that went from running a little bit slow to not running at all, here is what I found out. It also provides a little insight into how not to deal with customers problems with third party scripts.

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Tracking down vulnerable web apps on a hosting service

Looks like one of the worst things that can happen to a web app project has happened to wordpress – one of their releases was compromised by a “cracker”

http://wordpress.org/development/2007/03/upgrade-212/

I was in the “at risk” group of recent installs so have upgraded as soon as I saw the news post. The difficulty for server [...]