WordPress MU 2.7.1 released

[williamsba]

WPMU 2.7.1 was just released yesterday:

http://ocaoimh.ie/2009/04/21/wordpress-mu-271/

Interesting that they removed the admin bar built by Viper007Bond. Anyone know that back story on why they did that?

The sitewide plugin activation feature is a godsend for administrators overseeing large WPMU networks.

I've upgrade a couple sites already and so far so good!

[andrea_r]

I think there were too many bug issues with the admin bar, and generating proper URLs. there were a LOT of tickets about it.

Some of which went unanswered by people who submitted them...

[itsananderson]

The sitewide Plugin activation sounds cool. Do you know why they removed the admin bar? I never had much use for it, but it seems like a strange decision.

EDIT: Thanks andrea_r for answering my question before I was even able to post it :)

[williamsba]

I'm not a fan of the current way to navigate to other blogs now. They've basically added an extra click to list out all of your blogs to select where to go. I hope they come up with a better way to handle this by WPMU 2.8

[andrea_r]

Ron whipped up a plugin to handle this the way we thought it should be done:

http://wpmututorials.com/plugins/blogs-menu/

[itsananderson]

That's cool. Since the admin bar is being moved to a plugin anyway, I wonder if that plugin can be worked into it.

[andrea_r]

Worked in to the admin bar plugin?

The one Ron did goes into the standard admin header. the admin bar was on top of that, which we thought was overkill. :) at least for the backend.

[itsananderson]

Ahh ok. I missed that. I thought it was actually added to the admin bar.

[Jeffro]

I asked Donncha about the admin bar when I saw him tweet about it and this is what he said.

@wptavern it's just better that it's a plugin. MU 2.7.1 has a much better plugin system now making it simple to install

So there you go :)