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Category Wordpress, internet, Education, Technology | Permalink | 13. August 2007

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CNET’s Online Courses have been running on Wordpress MU for about two years now. I just finished upgrading to WPMU 1.2.3 from a highly customized pre RC version. (And lived to tell the tale :-)

Each course listed is its own WPMU blog (although it’s worth noting that the directory page itself that is linked to is actually running in a separate WP install, long story

Some of the ways in which we are utilizing WPMU are probably somewhat unconventional compared to how a lot of other folks probably use it. Essentially, we are using it as a CMS, only our editorial staff can technically create new blogs (”Courses” ). The original idea was going to be to allow everyone to create their own blogs, but for reasons of scalability, manageability, and other considerations, we have held off on that, for now at least.

But this is hopefully at least an interesting example of how WPMU can be used as a CMS for a fairly large commercial site.

In a nutshell, each course has 6 Lesson “Pages”, and each of those pages has a corresponding Assignment “Posts”. Each Assignment has several questions related to the topic, and class participants simply leave comments in response to the Assignment Post.

Initially installed & set up by Matt Mullenweg & Jeff Minard in the summer of ‘05, I pretty much inherited sole ownership of this beast when they moved on in the fall of ‘05. Since then, I have developed a myriad of customizations/plugins/hacks/tweaks to suit our business needs. These include coordination with ad servers, mass e-mail operations, integration with user registration systems via remote auth, and all sorts of other fun *challenges*

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