WordPress MU

I'm a newbie.. but the Hello World blog? what is it?.. I can delete it?

It's not a blog, it's the first default post of every new blog set up, including the main one. You can delete or change it as you wish.

How does the administrator change this default text?

Perhaps this should be a FAQ.

It's directly in the code with WPPU filling in the name of the system.

wp-includes/wpmu-functions.php IIRC.

Ok. Logged in trac. http://trac.mu.wordpress.org/ticket/131

This is also the default behaviour in regular WP, and since the code for MU closely follows that as much as possible, I'm not sure I see the need to open a ticket about it.

Possibly point someone to the file to edit perhaps, like drmike did, and having that in a FAQ somewhere, yeah.

But: there are many options in MU that theoretically could be changed depending on who is hosting blogs. Not all of them deserve to be in the backend admin panel somewhere. The development is better spent on fixing existing issues, not finding new things to tweak.

It already spews out the name of the site, grabbing it from the db, so I'm at a loss as to why upgradign it woudl change anything (unless someone changed the actual text to say something completly differnet, and if so, please see previous paragraph of mine).

Ok. Thanks. Closed.

Just for future reference, anythign that could be consdiered an enhancement is generally encouraged to be written as a plugin instead. That was, core code doesn't get bloated with 985697865 things that not everyone wants, and site maintainers can pick and choose what they want to have included.

Great. How do I modify trac to reflect that? Unless it is shown when someone selects 'enhancement' your words will be buried deep in this labyrinth of a forum.

Actually the first Post is editable within the Site Admin. The first comment and the first Page is not though. Those are hard coded. Sorry for the confusion.

That would be a great place to put a things to do first list, link to your FAQ, support forums and help desk and anything else you need in there. Hmmm...

Doh, forgot about that part - it's been so long. :) Good ideas drmike, I think you & I are on the same page here. ;)

I went ahead and added in my "First things to do with your new blog" list. That includes links to the FAQ and the support forums. You can see it in action here but that will probably disappear shortly.

I'm coming way late to the game here, but wouldn't it be nice for WPMU to follow the WP format of allowing a custom "install.php" file that allows for the definition of custom initial posts, comments, links, categories, etc...

Currently (WPMU 2.6.3), the creation of the initial post, comment, links, categories, etc... are hard coded in the wpmu-functions.php file and don't have the correct checks in place to allow the override of the base functions.

I have coded a replacement wpmu-functions.php that allows for an override similar to the way it is handled in the core of WP. It'd be great to have this incorporated into the WPMU core files so that I don't have to recreate this change with every upgrade.

The updates I've made don't create any "bloat" as it's only 2 lines of code per function that needs to be overridden (which is currently only 2, so 4 lines of extra code). The additional ability is then added in a user controlled file similar to having a custom "install.php" file stored in wp-content that is referenced when an initial install is done.

How do I got about submitting this change for inclusion in the core of WPMU?