WordPress MU plugins

WordPress MU uses two types of plugins. The standard WordPress Plugin, located (as expected) in the wp-content/plugins/ folder, and global, always on plugins, located in /wp-content/mu-plugins/ folder.

Finding plugins that are compatible with WordPress MU installs can be a bit tricky. Some work out of the box as expected, but many of the more advanced plugins have a bit of difficulty. Almost all will work as expected when placed in the standard plugins folder, but when you’re looking to add a site wide enhancement, you may find that things don’t go as expected.

For my current project, I found that I have a need to add additional fields to my user’s profiles. I want several unique pieces of information displayed, and I would like the user to populate this information when logging in. At first, I thought I had the solution with Cimy Extra User Fields. I’d even found an article on how to get it to work with MU. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to get this working, and rather than dig through thousands of lines of code to find where the issue might be, It seems I’ll have to code something myself.

*Note. I’m going to give it one more shot, but mostly because I’m just to stubborn to give up on it yet, and there’s always a chance that I messed something up somewhere.

There is a resource to help those of us using WordPress MU as a platform, however. The WordPress Codex has a list of compatible plugins for WordPress MU that may be of considerable assistance to you if you’re looking for something in particular.

I hope this helps someone. I know it took me a bit to find it.

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