Last Saturday I had the opportunity to listen to Mike Krotscheck talk about techniques for advanced WordPress installations. One of the most interesting things I took away from his talk was a way to install multiple WordPress blogs on one WordPress core. Note we’re not talking about WordPress MU. When you only need 2 or 3 blogs, WordPress MU can be a bit overkill, but installing these blogs on the same WordPress core can save space and make updates easier. Here’s how you do it.

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After releasing the Short Comment Filter Plugin, I’ve gotten feedback from people at WP Tavern and I’ve finally gotten a chance to implement their suggestions. I’ve added enough features that I’m bumping the version number to 2.0. Get the new version here

New Features

• Filtered Comment Count – Look at the settings page to see how many comments have been filtered
• Customizable Filter Message – Specify a custom message to be displayed if a comment is too short. Use %type% and %length% for a dynamic message

Fixes

• Email Notification – Notification emails are no longer sent out for filtered comments
• Filtering Trackbacks – Trackbacks are no longer filtered. Only comments are required to meet the minimum length requirement

Again, here’s the download link

Any WordPress Plugin developer worth their salt knows about the get_option function, which allows options to be retrieved from the database. What I recently discovered is that this function accepts a second parameter, indicating a default value to be returned if the option doesn’t exist in the database.

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