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The new WordPress MU 1.2.4 is now available to download. This is based on WordPress 2.2.2 and it is a security release, it’s highly recommended to update your WordPress MU install too. If you haven’t changed any files, all your need to do is copy over the new release and things should work fine.

Click below to download:

WordPress MU 1.2.4.rar

WordPress MU 1.2.4.gz.tar

• Kses has been reverted so you can use class and id attributes in your HTML tags again.
• The installer has been smartened up and is now friendlier and may catch a few more problems before they arise.
• Lots and lots of bugs have been squashed. It’s been messy but they had to be exterminated.

Who is WordPress MU ideal for?

• Newspapers and magazines.
• Universities and Schools.
• Blog networks
• Niche-specific blog hosts, like Edublogs

If you’re comfortable with Subversion and merging file changes, then the list of changed files should come in useful. You can also download a diff file there if that suits.

HOW TO UPDATE

Update: After you update, go to “Site Admin->Themes” and click Save. That will update the allowed themes list because it was changed a few days ago.

Edit: a few issues with themes and .htaccess rewrite problem appeared overnight. These have been fixed now. If you updated to 1.2 then download the new 1.2.1 version and copy these files into your install:

• wp-admin/themes.php
• htaccess.dist
• wp-includes/version.php
• wp-admin/admin-db.php
• wp-admin/themes.php
• wp-admin/wpmu-themes.php

Ever dream of running hundreds of thousands of blogs with a single install of WordPress?

WordPress MU, or multi-user, is designed to do exactly that. It is most famously used for WordPress.com where it serves tens of millions of hits on hundreds of thousands of blogs each day.