The blogs have been upgraded today to WP MU 2.7.1, look here for a list of changes. Everything seems to have gone smoothly and ready for the imminent release of BuddyPress 1.0 which will bring a whole new batch of options and settings to transform the blogs into a ‘social network platform’. Superlatives aside it does look like fun.

to WordPress MU 2.6.1. Furthermore I’ve now moved Akismet from mu-plugins to plugins, that might solve the problem with it sucking at spam collection. Also the video plugin we used hadn’t been updated in years, so I’ve ditched that in favor of Viper’s Video Quicktags, which not only works better, it’s a lot more user friendly.

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Hot on the heels of the update are 9 new themes, I strongly suggest having a look at them because some of you (*eyes littlemog*) are using horribly outdated themes that don’t use all of the functionality available in the newer versions of WordPress. All these themes should support for example the new gallery features and built in gravatar support.