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Backup Time and Default Plugins for Noisepages: BackupWordpress and Plugin Commander for WPMU

We’re just about to upgrade Noisepages to WPMU 2.6, so of course it’s backup time!

I use BackupWordpress for various WP sites. It’s quick and clean, and can email backups to us as well! I can now also add “works with Wordpress MU” to that feature list.

Also on the WPMU plugin kick: MU’s “mu-plugins” folder is great for plugin functionality which should be available for all MU sites without any user interference, but certain plugins don’t work in there (I managed to completely break a WPMU install by dropping the PXS-Mail plugin in there today), and for some plugins we might want them to show up for new WPMU sites, but be enabled by default.

Enter Plugin Commander, an MU-plugin which lets you control which plugins appear by default, and also which plugins users can activate and deactivate. Very clever, and super useful.

Related: backup, plugins, wpmu. Comments 0. By Jaymis. 2008-Jul-29@12:10.