Supporting the UW Web

The University of Melbourne has a nice-looking installation of WordPress MU:

University of Melbourne Blogs

They’re running it as a service @ a cost-recovery rate of $200/year.  It doesn’t look like they have too many blogs running there yet, and the process of starting a new blog seems to be a bit manual for my tastes, but it is good to see WordPress MU being used in this capacity by a university.  I’d support that.

Harvard Law School also runs WordPress MU, with a more automatic blog-creation process, but theirs is free.

Weblogs at Harvard Law School

WordPress 2.5.1 was released today, which means that I will now edit the WordPress installation documentation to use the latest WordPress release again, since version 2.5.1 works with the new http-authentication 2.0 plugin.

It is a relief to have the WordPress documentation using the latest, more secure version of WordPress again.  Of course this blog is using WordPress 2.5.1 and the new http-authentication plugin now.

The http-authentication plugin required for the fancy Pubcookie authentication instructions for WordPress does not function with the new WordPress 2.5.

I have changed the WordPress instructions to use the old 2.0.11 version of WordPress until the plugin gets fixed.