wordpress plugins
Multi-blogging
WordPress supports one weblog per installation, although multiple concurrent copies may be run from different directories if configured to use separate database tables.
WordPress Multi-User (WordPress MU, a.k.a. WPMU) is a fork of WordPress created to allow simultaneous blogs to exist within one installation. WordPress MU makes it possible for anyone with a website to host their own blogging community, control, and moderate all the blogs from a single dashboard. WordPress MU adds eight new data tables for each blog.
Matt Mullenweg announced that WordPress MU would be merged with WordPress as part of a future release.[21]
Lyceum is another enterprise-edition of WordPress. Unlike WordPress MU, Lyceum stores all of its information in a set number of database tables. Notable communities that use Lyceum are TeachFor.Us[22] (Teach For America teachers' blogs), BodyBlogs and the Hopkins Blogs.
In 2008 Andy Peatling joined Automattic to continue his work on BuddyPress - a plug-in extension of WPMU that is adding missing community features to WordPress[23].
Developers
WordPress development is led by Ryan Boren and Matt Mullenweg. Mullenweg and Mike Little were co-founders of the project.
The contributing developers include:
- Dougal Campbell
- Mark Jaquith
- Donncha Ó Caoimh
- Andy Skelton
- Michel Valdrighi
- Peter Westwood
Though much developed by the community surrounding it, WordPress is closely associated with Automattic, where some of WordPress's main contributing developers are employees.[24]
WordPress is also in part developed by its community, among which are the WP testers, a group of people who volunteer time and effort to testing each release. They have early access to nightly builds, Beta versions and Release Candidates. Upgrading to these versions, they can find and report errors to a special mailing list, or the project's Trac tool.
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