Comments on: WPMU as OCW Platform Update

By: Jared Stein

Jared Stein — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:04:47 +0000

Jim, I’ve seen Tony’s goodness, but this presumes stuff is already published, and has a feed. Granted, in the age of Google Apps and Yahoo Pipes the first condition is the most important, but I’m really thinking about this from a user perspective, i.e. uploading stuff, even unpacking stuff, directly to the WPmu account.

By: Adam W. Warner

Adam W. Warner — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:27:36 +0000

Just found your post through a Google alert for “WPMU” and it’s great to see WPMU used for a project like this.

@Jared Stein,
One solution would be to use something like MachForms ( http://www.appnitro.com/ ) to build a simple uploader for putting content right into a MySQL database then write a plugin to pull that into WPMU.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:04:29 +0000

Jared,

Tony Hirst has done some impressive stuff with this, and if the existing content has solid RSS feed, you can pull a lot of content in. Now this differs from application to application, but if USU’s OCW was built in Plone, chances are they can snap and RSS feed on pages and pull that stuff in , but I may be out of my depth here. Help me OUseful Kenobi, your my only syndication hope.

By: Jared Stein

Jared Stein — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:34:17 +0000

The only significant limitation I see is inability to easily upload and organize quantities of pre-existing content.

By: Jared Spurbeck

Jared Spurbeck — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:08:05 +0000

I don’t know much about WPMU, specifically, but I did have a few thoughts …

Why WP 2.7? Maybe plugin compatibility, but is it worth the increased security risk?

Also, have you taken a look at BuddyPress? It’s a framework built on top of WPMU that gives it social networking features. Very active developers.