WordPress and WordPressMU to merge
31 May2009
People mostly talk about the differences between WordPress and WordPress MU and an official FAQ says that:
Basically WordPress MU is a wrapper around the core WP code that virtualizes multiple blogs. The code that differs is in some bootstrap files, and administration for multiple blogs and users. It’s tough to say exactly what percentage of the total code this comprises, but it’d be safe to say that 95-99% of MU is core WP.
But in an announcement at WordCamp San Francisco, Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress, he announced that the WordPress version (people use) and the version that many professional companies and larger sites use (MU, Multiple-User) will be merging. As Matt is celebrating the 6th anniversary of the open source blogging software.
Many people who use the traditional version will find it easy to create additional blogs, it is sometimes prominent when you want to easily add more blogs (at subdomains or folders) without having to run the install scripts or manage them from completely different admin areas. The single install will help more people who wanted to use that feature to use WordPress without having to worry about converting to the MU version in the future.
It appears as though many details surrounding the conversion profess are unclear. Whether you would have to do a manual conversion (replacing some files) or if this would be completely built-in is up in the air. What we do know is that WordPress as we know it is becoming more of a complete content management system than ever before.
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Jamie Le Souef
June 1st, 2009 at 10:52 am
This is fantastic news. But i wonder what it’ll do to the 5 min install.. WPMU takes longer then 5 min to get up and running!
Binny V A
June 2nd, 2009 at 12:22 am
This is good news – but as Jamie said, the 5-min install might be a casualty.
Ky Lam Ngo
June 2nd, 2009 at 12:51 am
They should have done this from the beginning
rumblepup
June 2nd, 2009 at 2:42 am
@Jamie and @Binny, I’ve never seen an install of wordpress mu take more than 5 minutes. All is well.
Paul Maunders
June 2nd, 2009 at 2:59 am
Fantastic news. It did seem a bit pointless that all the main wordpress changes would always have to be re-applied to WP MU. WordPress is great CMS platform and this will make it a lot easier for anybody to run multiple sites from a single install. I wrote a post last year on how this can be achieved with the standard WP system:
http://www.pyrosoft.co.uk/blog/2008/08/31/hosting-multiple-blogs-on-a-single-wordpress-installation/
Mansoor Ahmed
June 2nd, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Yes exactly well said.. anyways but we will see what can be another solution for 5 minutes install.
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