Something Odd!

Now, this is a bit of a downer. LiveSearch looks like an excellent way to search because, as you type search results pop up magically!
Unfortunately it’s licensed under the Apache 2.0 License which is incompatible with the GPL, the license uner which WordPress is distributed. It would be legal to use it here without distributing those modifications, but that’s of no use to anyone else and I don’t want to maintain yet another source tree! Time to talk to the author…
I just noticed, CollyLogic has a “Live Preview” of your comment as you type it. That’s nice!
Here’s what it looks like in action! (via the support forum.)

Here’s another minor release, but with a few changes:

• Installer is slightly friendlier.
• I added code to detect incorrect permissions on directories and files left over after the install – instructions included on fixing!
• Themes support revamped – 10 themes are packaged in a seperate package.
• Updates to the WordPress core. Some to fix the XSS holes found a few days ago.
• Static Page support. Create a static page via Options->Pages and call it by adding /pages/name where “name” is the name of your page.
• Other stuff, minor bugs..

Download it from here: http://mu.wordpress.org/download/
From a question in the comments on adding new blogs, here’s how to do it:

1. Say your new blog will be called “test”, create a directory in wp-inst/wp-blogs/ called test. Fill that directory with the follow directories: templates, template_c, smartycache. All should be writeable by the webserver. Also copy the wp-config.php from ../main/ and customize to your needs (ie. the database table prefix should be changed to “wp_test_”)
2. Create a symlink to that “test” directory in the “blogs” directory that’s in the same directory as wp-inst. (I need to remove this requirement real soon!)
3. Open up http://yourhost/path/test/wp-admin/install.php to configure and setup the database.
4. You’ll probably have to compare the “options” tables of the new blog and your “main” blog as some entries there will have to be updated.

Ryan Boren has created an excellent “Pages” interface for WP 1.3 but up until now it was useless for WPMU.
This afternoon I built on top of that work by adding support for displaying those pages.
Simply create a page, give it a name and then call your blog, appending “/pages/name” to the end of the URL, where “name” is the title of the page. Here’s a simple test page to test out.

Expect a new release on Friday sometime with this lot included!