WordPress MU Write Post page opens very slow

After finishing an upgrade from WordPress 2.7 to WordPress 2.6.5 my “Write Post” page would take very long (2 or 3 minutes) to completley load. The “Custom Fields” records where full of entries, some 500 or 600. I deleted all those entries manually and now my “Write Post” page would load within about half a [...]

WordPress MU trouble with Google Chrome

WordPress MU users may have noticed a weird behaviour of the WordPress wp-admin pages when they are using Google Chrome. I have been experiencing a lot of different issues! Here the list…

- wp-admin write new post: tags autofill text function doesn’t work
- wp-admin write new post: “Add media:” buttons above text field absent or not [...]

WordPress MU RSS Feed doesn’t work

I’ve installed Wordpress MU 2.6.5. on my main http://ralfengel.com domain.
I’m using it with subdomains - not virtual host wildcards but - CName setup on the tuxtools server configuration.
On the main domain feeds work fine. On this first subdomain http://wordpress.ralfengel.com feeds work fine.
Today I added a new subdomain at http://spirituality.ralfengel.com and as before tried to use [...]

AdSense Optimized WordPress Theme

Thousands of WordPress Themes are out there on the world wide web. Many are quite pretty, support widgets and are AdSense ready. At least that is what they state on the info page where they are posted. But when you download the theme, upload it to your server and activate it, you find out that [...]

How to Execute PHP code in WordPress MU

After upgrading from WordPress to WordPress MU 2.6.5, and importing of about 4 MB of posts and comments, I’ve noticed that ALL my posts using code between < and > stopped working. I did some googling on this Issue and found out that WordPress MU is programmed in a way to prevent this kind of [...]

Wordpress MU Installation (dirty)

So you decided to go from Wordpress to Wordpress MU (multiuser). Tired of having to maintain several individual blogs, upgrading each one at a time, maintaining all the plugins up to date? I was, too. So I started googling and tried to figure out how Wordpress MU can help me AND if I can run [...]

WordPress 8 Step Tutorial

Getting started with WordPress. What you need, how to do it, where to get it. A detailed, eight step tutorial on how to become a professional WordPress Blogger (sometimes written Bloger).
A WordPress Blog can be run on a free server or on a paid one. Some differences apply, free servers usually are quite limited in [...]

Wordpress ProSense Theme translated German, French, Spanish

If you are running a Wordpress Blog in German, Spanish or French and are using Adsense to make some money blogging, then the translated version of the Wordpress ProSense Adsense Theme might be worth having a look at.
I am running a Wordpress Blog since quite a while now. It used to be hosted on a [...]

Youtube Video in Wordpress MU

This is an attempt to “fix” the issue concerning the ability to show Youtube Videos in a Wordpress MU post.
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
If you can see the Youtube Video above, then the Easy Tube Plugin works.
Download EasyTube.
Just in case EasyTube doesn’t work for you, visit the eJump [...]

Upgrade from Wordpress 2.7 to Wordpress MU 2.6.5

Yesterday I upgraded my Blog Site from Wordpress 2.7 to Wordpress MU (Multi User) 2.6.5.
Everything went more or less (hehe) well, with some exceptions. I ran into major trouble concerning several issues.

1. Exec-PHP
2. Youtube Video
3. Sidebar Widgets
4. Write Post - Custom Fields
5. Google Analytics
1. Exec-PHP
After finishing the WP MU install I started re-activating all my [...]