breaking the layout one plugin at a time
If your host is Media Temple chances are you’ve had trouble accessing subdomain blogs. I recently came across this post that made everything work. Check out jimmiejo’s post. Don’t let the 12 steps scare you. It’s really very simple, however, you will need root access to edit the httpd.include file and to restart httpd on the server.
YMMV
Posted in development, information.
– September 7, 2009
Attempting to use the “google analytics for wordpress” and the “google analyticator” plugins in wpmu was a fail. The “google analytics for wordpress” also failed in 2.5.1 while “google analyticator” worked. Go figure. The code had to be embedded into footer.php for it to work properly. How about some love from these plugin people? I’ll bet they both work fine in the default theme, but who uses that thing anymore?
Posted in development, information.
– June 6, 2008
Added supercache after moving this site to showdisk.org. Same comments as before.
It seems to be working, but the installation directions are a bit confusing. I am not a big fan of editing the .htaccess file. The plugin should accomplish this on it’s own. There should be a standard set of plugins provided for and supported by wpmu. This is one of them. If they can provide Hello-Dolly in the single blog version, you can provide something more useful in the mu version. It would cut down the messing around time to get wpmu into a robust state.
The /cache/meta/ folders were owned by apache so it’s not easy to add the necessary .htaccess file. 
Posted in development, information.
– June 5, 2008
In order to make the adsense ads blend into the page, it is necessary to find the exact color. Not having any sense of the hex color codes and not wanting to try every color in the .css file. I searched around and found this excellent freeware app the can tell you the color code on the screen. It’s very handy and I can no longer live without it. 
It’s called Hex Color Finder 3.0, and that’s exactly what it does. It can tell you the code of any pixel on the screen. Very handy tool. The site listed in the About is now a link page. So just download it and blend your ads right into your site. Or not.
Posted in development, information.
– June 4, 2008
I have the following plugins installed and working:
In the /mu-plugins/ folder: userthemes.php v1.1.
In the /plugins/ folder: Adsense Deluxe 2 v1.0, Akismet v2.1.5, All In One Seo Pack v1.4.6.8, WordPress.com Stats v1.2.1, WordPress Video v0.66, and WP-Ustream v1.0.
Supercache is next…
Posted in development, information.
– June 4, 2008
Successfully installed adsense deluxe version 2. It goes into the /plugins/ folder not the /mu-plugins/ folder grrrr. I used the wpmu plugin manager to activate it. It seems that the wpmu devs incorporated it into wpmu recently.
Finally.
Posted in development, news.
– June 2, 2008
I’ve successfully added the wp-ustream plugin and the video embed plugin on the test page. The positioning and sizing need to be tweaked but the functionality is there.
The ustream plugin has the potential for switching the live feed. Now I need to figure out mysql.
Posted in development.
– June 2, 2008
I’ve noticed that the “kitchen sink” button and the associated buttons on the second row, don’t show up in IE7 and Firefox. NETSCAPE FTW. suxxorz for you. I will double check to make sure.
Edit: Yep it’s true, the second row of icons and their functions are GONE in Firefox and IE7. WTG wpmu.
Edit: Removing the Anarchy Media Plugin restored the icons in the visual editor. But why did it work in Netscape and not the others? Head scratcher for sure.
Posted in development, information.
– June 2, 2008
Anarchy media player is broken in wpmu 1.5.1. The fancy icons don’t show up in the visual editor. I didn’t see any fixes on the forum and the developer has pretty much abandoned it. The wordpress tool doesn’t work either. The wpmu thing doesn’t actually insert the code properly. Or at all. So how about wpmu using the AMP plugin hmmmm. This is another plugin that should be used as part of the default install of wpmu. Not that silly none working thing wpmu uses.
The media embed that ships with wpmu does not insert the URL of the video correctly. It shows up correctly before clicking on insert. After that the embed is mangled into oblivion. WTG peeps.
Posted in development.
– June 2, 2008
This is what I get when I try to embed the ustream code into a wpmu post using the wpmu thing:
That’s right, absolutely nothing…
It shows up in the editor and after I hit save, pooof oblivion.
Posted in development, news.
– June 2, 2008
