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Ok i'm back from a long absence and found out the whole invites thing is gone. I had to close my whole MU because all I did was deleting blogs that were setup for spam or pagerank purpose. I got sick of that.

I need the invites as an admin, not for users.

Anyone?

Gotta admit that I would like it back as well, Donncha. I know in the changelog, you say it should be a plugin but I think it should be in the download instead.

blips, the "add a blog by the admin" is listed as an upcoming feature in the trac.

*chuckle, I just had a scare. I loaded the normal version of WP's trac by mistake. Where did all those come from? :)

Found the patch;

http://trac.mu.wordpress.org/ticket/69

was fixed and closed 2 hours agoo, I will give it a try tonight. :)

Sweet
thanks wakeless

Unfortunately invites won't be coming back, time to code it as a plugin?

Can we bribe you with BBQ? :)

Is the old code still available for it?

It's in the repository, but there are bits and pieces of it all over the place I'm afraid. Grepping the Changelog for "invite" might be helpful though!

blips, does the patch work? Looks good.

Yes I patched the files as stated here; http://trac.mu.wordpress.org/ticket/69
and it works as a charm.
I think I will make a contact form on the frontpage for people to request a blog.

I did play around a little with the new signup and it is way better then it was 2 months agoo, spammer need to go thru some hoops now.

I'm using the RC1 and have the feeling we are getting there, its darn close.

Oops I'm using RC2 time goes so fast LOL

The nightly release is more current right now.

Donncha, I noticed that in the changelog that you don't label where the RC's are along the timeline. Doing so might come in handy.

So, am I the only one that would like to see the invites system back for users as well?

It would seem to me to be a more viral and community oriented system.

That, and I'd much rather not have to deal with blog request emails from spammers.

Freq---

You are the only one?...

Who started this question? We are at least with the tree of us DrMike has the same request.

I also see an invite system a kind of exlusiveness for users, remember gmail you could only get an account after an invite, they sold it on eBay too. WordPress.com same story.

So I think invites has more then one function.

I'd prefer invites as well.

Weird. I just upgraded to RC4 and have invites. Didn't test them though.

*chuckle* Maybe we should invite Donncha to bring them back. :)

Well, TBH, I did a "overwrite if newer" so that could be why mine are still there.

Maybe we should invite Donncha to bring them back.

I don't think he'd RSVP. ;)

I really don't understand why someone just can't write a plugin or hack (if need be. I haven't checked for hooks on the signup page lately). Donncha has said more than once now that the feature is not coming back and yet people are still asking for it.

The invite feature I coded for WPMUDEV took only about an hour to complete and that's with coding several functions that WPMU already has built in (email, etc).

There seems to be several of you that want/need the invite feature and I know several of you have the knowledge to make the plugin.

I really don't understand why someone just can't write a plugin or hack

Um, time maybe? :)

Ability as well?

how about a gmail type invite.. give users 5 invites to open a blog.. get some viral marketing going!! If the user is an active blogger they could get another 50... a good blogger is more likely to invite another good blogger and so on!!

That's how the old system was. When you used an invite, you got another one back.

Doncha;
Can we get it back?
Its a very good marketing gig/buzz or whatever you name it.

and you got more depending how long you were on the system - but making it dependant on how much you blogged would be cooler, IMO.

Scroll up, blips. Donncha said it wasn't coming back.

I'll post a feature request on the Trac tomorrow (along with the other ones)!

I agree this is a very important feature!

I do agree with donncha, that invites really should be a plugin not a feature.

Unfortunately, I don't have the ability to code it... so I'll take it any way I can get it.

Freq---

Feature.. in the options panel! Plugins are confusing for end-users... (okok... maybe a /mu-plugin/ could be accepted) and some of them tell the end-users that there's a new version... when they click the link that pops in the admin interface they get a file they don't that know what to do with!!

I started coding of that plugin. Basically it will be just a PHP file that you need to drop into mu-plugins.

However, I need a few hooks.
http://trac.mu.wordpress.org/ticket/112

Great minds think alike - I was working on this yesterday. I got the original Site Admin Invites menu to show up so far, but not the user's Invites menu. At least not yet.

I got that working too. The trick is to incorporate the two invites.php files into one and than use WordPress native technologies to display pages contributed by plugins.

Yep, exactly. :)
http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin
Been reading here.