WordPress MU

hi,
i'm using wpmu (at least i'ld like to) seriusly for the first time.
I have some wpmu-based websites but i don't need many features on them.

Actually i'm looking for:

- a mailing list plugin
- something like "globabl traslator"
- a poll plugin
- (optional) a related-post plugin

i already made some search in the forum but i didn't find any of those working propely.. any advice??
thank you

"- a poll plugin
- (optional) a related-post plugin"

I've had both these kinds of plugins working on MU sites with no issues.

Or were you looking to have them sitewide?

Have a look at MailPress for mailing list:

http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog/2008/08/08/mailpress-18-available/

@andrea: do you use democracy??

@cafespain: thank you, i'll take a look ;)

I've used democracy on one site and another one on another site.

NOT in the mu-plugins folder.

i thought to use plugin commander to activate the plugin on every blog but probably that's not the right way

Actually there isn't a link to the plugin on that page - oops I didn't read it properly.
Have a look at this one:
http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog/2008/07/10/last-release-of-mailpress-ver-12/

Not tried it myself, but it looks very thorough.

don't worry i found the page http://andrerenaut.ovh.org/wp/?page_id=70

anyway i'm still thinking about plugin activation, i don't want users manage plugins :-/

for related posts you can try Zemanta.

Yep, plugin commander is how to do it.

I think it will also hide the plugins menu for non-site-admins.

ok, everything seems to work now, i used wp-polls and sendit mailing list plugin (plus some others)

any other advice about useful plugins?

Have a look here for a nice list of MU compatible plugins:

http://wpmudevorg.wordpress.com/plugins.php

i know that list, but my question was more something like "what do you think i absolutely need on my wpmu?"

I always put the sitewide feed plugin in so at the very least I can monitor sitewide postings.

Other than that, it depends on the site.

i'm planning to import a small magazine-like blogs like www [dot] rovato [dot] org and some other similar websites

Absolutely. I hardly run any of the plugins most other WPMU users have installed, but then that's because I don't use WPMU the same way.

But saying that sitewide tags is useful, as is the sitewide feed and an all posts plugin.

If you have any users, why not ask them what they would like?

andrea_r:

"- a poll plugin
- (optional) a related-post plugin"

I've had both these kinds of plugins working on MU sites with no issues.

Or were you looking to have them sitewide?

WordPress MU Sitewide Related Posts Plugin (MSRP) can find and link related posts from all the blogs hosted on the same MU installation. It's based on YARPP (which by the way works out of the box with MU but not sitewide), a plugin that has its roots from WASABI.

Here's a Demo!

Good find, I'll have to give it a spin.
(saves me doing it :P )

edit: look like a bit of a possible resource hog, noted on the post.