http://wpmu.org/daily-tip-how-to-embed-rss-feed-entries-in-wordpress-posts/

“Arm your vuvuzelas: WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download (or upgrade within your dashboard). Major new features in this release include a sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that allow them to easily implement custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus (no more file editing), post types, and taxonomies. (Twenty Ten theme shows all of that off.) Developers and network admins will appreciate the long-awaited merge of MU and WordPress, creating the new multi-site functionality which makes it possible to run one blog or ten million from the same installation. As a user, you will love the new lighter interface, the contextual help on every screen, the 1,217 bug fixes and feature enhancements, bulk updates so you can upgrade 15 plugins at once with a single click, and blah blah blah just watch the video.”

 ?orderby=ID&order=ASC

to the end of the resulting URL. E.g. http://terrywassall.org/category/elgg/?orderby=ID&order=ASC

This tip from Viewing WordPress Posts in Chronological Order  psoted to the OUseful.Info, the blog…

“Optimizing your database is a necessary part of WordPress housekeeping. Things can start to pile up in there… post revisions, old spam comments, etc., and your blog can start to get sluggish. We’ve gathered a number of solid tips for getting your database into shape without having to be an expert”.

Need to look at the WP-Optimize plugin mentionned.

I have been trying to think of anything I might have done to mess this installation up and the only thing I can think of is that, perhaps coincidentally, various troubles date back to when I disabled and deleted the BuddyPress plugin and themes and upgraded WPMU to 2.9.1. The whole site has been flaky but the http://terrywassall.org/blogs/  has been the least reliable bit of it. I think I may completely remove the MUWP install in the blogs folder and start from scratch with a new install of 2.9.2. I’ll see how it goes. As I say, all seems to be OK for the moment.

Postscript: Just got a message from 34SP re: the problem. It seems there are a number of security modules on the server and one of these picked up on a script trying to change the allowed memory. Apparently this is something  a lot of bogus scripts do. When this happens, to protect the server, it blocks user access. Although this may seem a little harsh, as 34sp admit, the security module is just doing its job. I don’t think we can argue with that. It would be nice, however, if there was a process where the  site owner/admin was contacted about the problem rather than waiting for them to notice themselves. I sometimes don’t visit this site for up to 2 weeks and I have no idea how long it has been down for. I assume the offending script (is that the same as a php file?) could be identified as well. If is is a rogue script this would be useful information I would have thought!

I may wait for the WP version 3 which will apparently be a merging of WP and MUWP.

Update: 16/01/2010 In fact I did the automatic update on the MUWP installation and it worked perfectly.