local clone of wordpres.com

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    vaktm · Member ·

    Installing local wordpress network for learning but also for development of sites placed later on wordpress.com. For that reason the local sites configuration should be as close as possible to the configuration of sites on wordpress.com. So the question: what plugins are preinstalled for users on wordpress.com? Are there any other configuration steps interesting and important in this case you can inform about? Just for the info: my local base wordpress network runs as a charm.

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    timethief · Member ·

    I believe you will have to ask Staff which plugins like Akismet have been installed on a platform wide basis here at WordPress.com.

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    designsimply · Member ·

    Note that not everything on WordPress.com is available in WordPress.org. To start, I would recommend looking at the widgets page as a main list of differences: http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/

    If you are working on design locally, use this plugin for your CSS: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/safecss/

    All the themes are available to download from https://wpcom-themes.svn.automattic.com/

    If you setup your test environment on a VPS or a web hosting account or rolled your own DNS to connect your testing server to the world, then you could install Jetpack (sites using Jetpack must be publicly accessible and not just local setups). Some of the WordPress.com widgets like Follow Blog, Image, and Twitter are included in the Jetpack plugin and Jetpack also has a few other services like sharing buttons, stats, subscriptions (follows), and distribution (publicize) that are the the same as on WordPress.com, so Jetpack would be a good plugin to setup except… it cannot be installed on a local test environment that’s not public.

    Other plugins to consider: Akismet, SyntaxHighlighter.

    Instead of trying to setup a testing environment that covers *everything* though, you might want to set up a publicly available test site with Jetpack and then install other things on an ad hoc basis. For example, there’s really no need to install a SyntaxHighlighter plugin if you’re never going to post code on a blog.

    You might also consider just setting up a test blog on WordPress.com itself as your testing environment, or maybe the 2nd tier after you have some content and a theme choice in place.

    You should blog about your experience with this and post a link back here about it. I would be interested in reading something like that. :)

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    vaktm · Member ·

    Thanks for the response. I am working on it.

    May be the first important note I have to make:

    The description of multisite wp installation is not complete. I followed the installation in detail (subdirectory alternative) on a freshly installed Ubuntu 10.4. and Apache2 I could create a subsite and the subsite showed up in mysql tables but not as a website.

    I had to make a change in sites.available:

    <Directory /var/www/>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    # 111206 – lz, to get the multisite wp to work, a consequence of tha .htacces file
    # AllowOverride None
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all
    </Directory>

    It is probably a problem for wordpress.org people. I don’t know if Apache2 has different default configuration in Ubuntu then in other distributions.

    I found the solution on http://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-31-new-install-cant-create-subblogs and http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/core.html

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