Because I am not personally a WordPress MU user, it seems to be very rare that I talk about WPMU that much here at WordPress Hacks.    For those unfamiliar with WordPress MU, it is a multi-user version of WordPress, allowing you to control thousands of blogs with a single installation of WordPress.   This of course makes it ideal for blog networks, newspapers and magazines, or universities.

I know a number of our readers do use WordPress MU, so I wanted to let you know that our friend Andrea of WPMU Tutorials has taken her popular post and published the information in an ebook explaining how to install WordPress MU.  For people that are considering starting a network of blogs, you’ll want to check out this free ebook!

Weblog Tools Collection has announced the winners for this years WordPress plugin competition.   Thanks to everyone who participated for contributing to the WordPress community and congrats to all the winners!

Here are the winners and prizes:

The Grand Prize Winner is WP Comment Remix

• $2000
• Production of a professionally recorded song for the winner.
• Dedicated server for one year from iWeb (Intel Core 2 Duo, HD 160GB Sata2, 1GB of RAM and 1500GB of bandwidth per month)
• Copy of OIOPublisher Advertising Plugin

Second Prize Winner is Manageable

• $700
• Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas for the PC and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
• Copy of OIOPublisher Advertising Plugin

Third Prize Winner is WP Easy Uploader

• $200
• Country codes of the world poster
• Copy of OIOPublisher Advertising Plugin

Consolation Prize Winner is Prelovac

• 12 month blogclub subscription from Blogalized
• Copy of OIOPublisher Advertising Plugin

$250 prize from WPMU

• First Prize for the best WPMU compatible plugin from Incsub goes to Vote2Publish
• Consolation prize for the best WPMU compatible plugin goes to WP Wall

Everyone else got $10.00 for their plugin contribution.

My favorite thing about this competition is that it can provide inspiration for someone who otherwise might have not taken the time to create a WordPress plugin.   In looking for the list of plugins submitted, I think that several of these plugins will find a large userbase and be around for years to come.

Congrats again to everyone who participated!