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Following on from Outbreak of wordpress, it must be contagious and Wordpress MU in a Corporate environment

Wordpress MU is now a Live service inside BT, for all employees to use !

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The platform is currently a single, yet rather large linux VM running WordPress MU 1.3.3 with the LDAP auth plugin into the Corprate AD.
as the need and used grows this will be fronted by a cookie insert load balancer and more apache/php instance

  • The front page includes some blog guidelines and a few a few MU plugins
  • Recently update blogs
  • New blogs
  • Top Bloggers (quantity not quality)
  • Global Tag cloud

We have also …

  • Disabled the self registration system, as by default wordpress MU gives you a blog name based on your username( a meaning less 9 didgit number in our case).
  • Enforced logon for comments on all blogs, and modified the PHP to prevent anyone changing that
  • Pre loaded the WP_users table with ALL employees, so no registration is required for a User account (require for comment), LDAP to the AD deals with password policies
  • User Blog are (Currently Manualy) created using the email address prefix, replacing “.” with a “_” for john.smith@ get a blog called john_smith
  • Group Blogs what ever name they wish (within reason)