Comments on: To Merge Or Not To Merge?

By: The multi blog features of WordPress MU will be merged into the standard WordPress software, after which the standard WordPress software will have all the features of MU and MU will be phased out. | Midas Oracle .ORG

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:47:22 +0000

[...] The multi blog features of WordPress MU will be merged into the standard WordPress software, after which the standard WordPress software will have all the features of MU and MU will be phased out. Written by Chris F. Masse on August 13, 2009 — Leave a Comment “The multi blog features of WordPress MU will be merged into the standard WordPress software, … [...]

By: 2Φ3Σ27Φ (\)λ√λ22Φ

2Φ3Σ27Φ (\)λ√λ22Φ — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:07:58 +0000

I sure wish i knew about wp and wpmu merging afew months ago, I went thru some big time hastles getting my site to behave the way i wanted, but finaly i'ts ready, and then I find out wp and wpmu are merging chek out my site to see what i did, it's not to compicated once you look at it now. but i was really stressing about not loosing all prevous post and comments.

By: Found By Design

Found By Design — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:57:48 +0000

Having just recently migrated to MU I have mixed feelings. I liked being a part of an “exclusive” group that actually took the time to get to know MU. Yet at the same time it will be nice to see more info and support for the program I use!

All in all I think this is a good thing.

By: Wordpress as a social platform | Cozmoslabs

Wordpress as a social platform | Cozmoslabs — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:46:45 +0000

[...] where do we go from here? Recently it was announced Wordpress to merge with Wordpress MU. This will probably appear with the 3.0 launch. This seams to be just one of the [...]

By: Colin @ PremiumWPThemes

Colin @ PremiumWPThemes — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:12:00 +0000

Two failed WPMU installation attempts later…

Would be most happy if standard wordpress became more upwardly scalable…

By: Jess Planck

Jess Planck — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:17:41 +0000

It makes perfect sense and I’m pretty happy about it.

In the earlier days of WordPress MU it was a complicated installation followed by complicated management. WPMU has proven much easier to install and manage over the years and some of the bug fixes to WPMU went directly the WordPress Core.

Basically the code that makes WPMU work has been getting smaller and more compartmentalized, so I could imagine that the effort to maintain a WordPress Fork for Multi-blog functionality starts to become a huge complicated waste of time. With a merge you can have Donnacha and the WPMU community working with WordPress Core. So instead of reporting a WPMU bug or feature and finding out it needs to be reported to WordPress Core you just report the bug in one place. Nice!

By: John James Jacoby

John James Jacoby — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:44:52 +0000

@Andy Peatling - Couldn't have said it better meself. :)

By: Andy Peatling

Andy Peatling — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:29:54 +0000

I’m not sure what all the confusion is about! It’s as simple as this one sentence:

“The multi blog features of WordPress MU will be merged into the standard WordPress software, after which the standard WordPress software will have all the features of MU and MU will be phased out.”

The timeline is yet to be announced.

By: Nouvelles du front | WordPress Francophone

Nouvelles du front | WordPress Francophone — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:57:48 +0000

[...] Cette annonce – assez logique vu combien le code de WPMU est désormais proche de celui de WP – a été faite par Matt (fondateur du projet) lors du récent WordCamp San Francisco, durant son habituel “State of the Word”. Après quelques jours de doute parmi les blogueurs qui n’étaient pas à l’évènement (cf. les updates chez Ozh), Matt a confirmé ce fait avec un simple commentaire, et Donncha (principal développeur de WPMU) a confirmé également de son côté. [...]

By: John James Jacoby

John James Jacoby — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:08:47 +0000

This is really not any different than what’s been happening for years now…

Let me paint a picture…

Every new version of WordPress that comes out is promptly followed by a supplemental version of WordPressMU, which introduces all of the new .ORG changes into MU. All that will eventually happen, is that .ORG and MU will join up and have 1 installation that asks “Would you like one blog, or many blogs.” And I suspect the answer to this question isn’t permanent, considering it’s totally possible to install WPMU and only have 1 blog.

So maybe “merging” isn’t the right word to use when talking to developers that want to know how it’s going to impact them. The answer is that it really won’t. The audience that just wants one blog will continue to have the same plugins working the same way they do now. Users wanting a community with more than one blog will want to use plugins that focus on the USER on the SITE versus the BLOG, just like BuddyPress does.

Really, as soon as the 2.8 changes make it into WPMU, I suspect that wordpress.org code will just turn into MU code, but still be called .org.

Clear as mud? Haha! This is all just my speculation at this point, but I think from a developmental standpoint this makes sense, and would even make sense if you were looking at this from a long term perspective…

Branch apart MU, to figure out a way to make one WordPress installation support many blogs. Okay, got it pretty well mature and figured out. Now, merge it back in and have the new more intelligent code replace the old stuff. Done.

Then again, dogs and cats could be living together, and this could be mass hysteria; I really have no idea. :)