I set up a test server to give WU-United a try. Since the main developer has stopped, I was using a verison I found here:

http://www.nitemarecafe.com/2009/02/20/wp-united-061-rc-1-released/

After a false start and a failure to read directions I got it running. I was skeptical at first since it only used Wordpress, not WordpressMU, and that was a correct feeling.

While it does work, phpbb users get access to the blog, even a ‘personal’ blog, it is not the way I’d like. the way it works is that all blogs are just a part of one Wordpress blog, and the blogs are pulled out by designating which author (for example: blog.php/?author=3/) which is not a pretty solution.

Also, ALL blogs have to have one template. The fact that there really is only one blog makes this make sense, but alas, this is not what I want.

So close, very close, but not close enough. Same idea, but Wordpress MU and we’d have gold.

so i spoke too soo, seems that the tags didn’t cross over. so time to see how to get them to. worst case senerio is that they have to be retyped in, but i’d prefer not to.

so this has been updated to the 2.7 edition of the software. other than having to figure out that an htaccess file was needed, it was, mostly, painless.

mostly.