Well, everyone else has done it... so... I figured... Plop a link to my WordPress MU powered site here... (and also give some history of our site as well as what we are doing)
We still have a lot to work on before we will be happy, but so far - things are slowly coming together...
Hacking away by writing our own tailor made code and modifying existing plugins to suit our needs.
Our very own Sitewide Latest Posts and Sitewide Latest Comments (php class) works nicely (we are unsure of a maximum length for a mySQL query as we use just one to get a list of blogs then one query for all posts and one for all comments sitewide *still a work in progress* (3 queries total to retrieve both) - and our version in SVN is not what we are using live)
We also have created our own email obfuscation script based on existing code in an attempt to protect our potential users and commenter's if they happen to put an email address into their pages/posts/comments etc... and this works sitewide - again, we have the initial version live but the best version is on our PRIVATE dev servers.
An example at http://ind-web.com/support/contact-us/
(works with or without javascript)
*please DO NOT comment with your email addresses to try and test out this function as our live version does not filter comments - but our private dev version does*
We also use caching using a slightly modified version of the great Donncha's WP Super Cache (our modifications enable us to place 'This page: 53 queries in 0.457 seconds.' for dynamic pages, but save the cached version to read 'This page: Cached by WP Super Cache on October 25th, 2008 at 12:40 pm.').
We are also unhappy with the 'Sitewide Featured User' plugin and are working on our own Sitewide Voting System for 'Sitewide Featued Blogs' instead - again, this is not in public view at the moment... but the source code should be available soon for anyone to add to their own wpmu.
Sitewide author pages have also been a breeze to implement (although, once again - the best versions are not public yet), this is without modifying roles and capabilities and still keeps new users as subscribers.
At this moment in time. we are not concerned with the amount of users we can get (although it would be nice to get a few) but being part of the global wpmu community and can hopefully benefit others by sharing our code, ideas and methods.
Feel free to have a look around our site and let us know what you think!
