I have spent some time the past few evenings researching WordPress MU for a project that I have had in mind for quite some time and just like everything the guys at Automattic and WordPress put out, I have to say that I am very impressed. My concentration into this software started a few days ago when Ben Fisher of Techpad Agency showed me a project that he has been working on at: http://blogging.thegamereviews.com/ via Twitter.
If you aren’t familiar w/ WordPress Multi-user, like is used on various television network sites where anchors and correspondents maintain their own blogs seperate from the main site. This of course is only one use of this software, there are many others, here are some other examples: La Monde, Harvard, Edublog.
Here is a good explanation of WordPress Multi-User from the WordPress team:
With WordPress we took blogging to the next level by creating powerful self-hosted software that anyone could install and have a blog within minutes.
Now with MU we’re making it as easy to create a thousand blogs as it was to create a single blog with WordPress 3 years ago. By building on the base of WordPress and syncing development, we get the benefit of the huge ecosystem in plugins and themes that has developed around the project.
Development on MU is spearheaded by Automattic, since they use MU to power WordPress.com a great deal of the companies resources are poured into improving the code, and it all goes back into the open source world via MU.
If you’d like some background on the WordPress project, check out its about page. Since WordPress and WordPress MU share 99% of the same codebase, the features and development on one also benefit another. As WordPress is used by everyone from Yahoo to the New York Times, it isn’t going anywhere.
If you are interested in checking out WordPress MU for your project, check out their Readme files from the trunk: http://trac.mu.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/README.txt
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