WordPress MU 2.8: Beginner’s Guide
Making your own social blog network
Building our example site: The SlayerCafe
Time for action - getting your server set up
Time for action - creating a database for WordPress MU
Time for action - subdomains for WordPress MU
Time for action - working with cPanel
Time for action - subdomains under WHM
Time for action-getting WordPress MU up and running
Time for action-changing the admin password
Time for action-enabling registrations
Time for action-creating a new user
Customizing the Appearance of Your Site
Time for action - installing a new theme
Time for action - editing your theme
Time for action - changing the default blog theme
Time for action - making a sign-up button
Time for action - featured posts
Time for action - simple stats
Displaying recent posts and comments
Time for action-displaying the most active blogs
Time for action - tweaking the recent post display options
Time for action - Sitewide recent comments
Time for action - our improved home page
Letting Users Manage Their Blogs
Customization options for your users
Time for action - offering a selection of themes
Time for action - userthemes revisited
Time for action - setting user levels and changing the user's admin panel
Time for action - hiding the dashboard
Time for action - domain mapping
Stopping spam with reCAPTCHA and Bad Behavior
Time for action - setting up reCAPTCHA
Time for action - setting up Bad Behavior
Time for action - managing your users' plugins
Blocking bad guys with .htaccess
Time for action - .htaccess settings to stop bad guys
Time for action - automatic backups
Increasing Traffic to Your Blog
Time for action - tagging blog posts
Time for action - sitewide tag clouds
Time for action - offering RSS subscription options
Time for action - let's burn some feeds
Twitter and social bookmarking
Time for action - social bookmarking links
Sticky Features for your Blog Network
What do people mean by "sticky"?
Letting readers and authors communicate
Time for action - setting up contact forms
Time for action - IntenseDebate Comments
Time for action - gravatars in WordPress MU
Time for action - creating a welcome message
Time for action-installing bbPress
One login for both the forum and the blog
Time for action - user DB integration with WordPress MU
Time for action - blog and forum registrations
Time for action - styling your forum
Time for action - managing your forum
Time for action - setting user permissions
Time for action - installing plugins
Social Networking with BuddyPress
Time for action - installing the BuddyPress suite
Time for action - installing new themes
Time for action - Facebook Connect
Time for action - speeding up BuddyPress
Time for action - ad management with Advertising Manager
Time for action-revenue sharing
Time for action - premium memberships
Things to remember when monetizing your site
Choosing to optimize your site
Speed up your site with caching
Time for action - setting up object cache
More ways to speed up your site — optimizing themes
Time for action-spreading the load
Time for action - optimizing your site through phpMyAdmin
Troubleshooting slow loading sites
Troubleshooting and Maintaining your Site
Time for action-performing the upgrade