WordPress MU

I just installed WP MU (lastest ver). Everything is working perfectly the first time. Now I am trying to customize it. This is my first time ever playing with Word Press.

I added a few "Pages" and one of them is a "Sign up Page". When a user clicks on the "Sign up Page" I'd like to redirect them to "../wp-signup.php" page.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Amir

"This is my first time ever playing with Word Press."

Then you better be hopping over to the Codex, and getting familiar with what WP (and therefore MU for the most part) does.

Especially with page templates, and the entire template structure.

My 'sign up" Page has a hard-coded link to wp-signup in it. That way, I know they've read the breif TOS before they click it. :)

Heh... I use javascript for that. Gotta check the box for the TOS, or you can't move on. :)

amirbq, create the sign up page, then open the .htaccess file in your wordpress-mu folder (e.g. www/.htaccess or www/wpmu/.htaccess) and write:

Redirect 301 /sign-up-page/ http://nodblog.com/wp-signup.php

Thanks everybody for your replies.

I checked out the Codex site and didn't see many references to WPMU Documentation. Whatever I saw was too generic and most of it was on WP and not WPMU. I am looking for some deep Tech Info :)

I am trying to configure WPMU in a way so that anytime a user wants a new blog, they can sign up as an author/admin of their own blog and manage their themes, etc, with no manual intervention from my end. This way they manage their own blog (public/private). But this is not what I am finding with my WPMU install. May be I missed something?

1. Do I need a plugin for making them all independent Bloggers under the same website?

2. Is there a separate site for WPMU Docs where I can get detailed "under the hood" information?

3. Are their any "Infrastructure Design" docs that I can use to design a Multi-Million User Blogging environment from ground up? I am currently hosted in a Clustered Linux environment. At some point I would like to have my own back end setup.

Thanks... appreciate your input!

Amir

"But this is not what I am finding with my WPMU install. May be I missed something?"

Uh, yeah - you missed something because that happens by default. Every user on the system is an admin on their own blog.

And the answer to all 3 questions is essentially no. Really, MU is about 95% the same as WP. And especially for #3 - Wordpress.COM is behind this software, why on earth would they make it easy for someone to compete with them?

Andrea Thanks for such a straight forward reply. I understand that WP would want to grow their own WP.com site.

I just created some test blogs and was able to login as admin under each one of them.

Is there a way to set the site wide template, so each user gets the Primary Site Template as their default template (instead of Kubrick) when they create a blog. Then later on they can change it to something else if they don't like the main template?

Thanks.

pick whatever you want as the default template and place it in the "default" theme directory. That's the simplest way.

Or, even simpler - rename the default theme directory as "kubrick" and rename your primary site theme as "default". Presto.