used Stray Quotes since it appears to be more maintained. Now I just have to actually get updated themes and then add it in again…

Also, I got closer to the everything-running-multidomain (though not with multiple URLs to the same blog, and I may fall back on apache redirects) thanks to a discussion thread with Dr. Mike and then a recipe from cafespain for making multiple domains work:

  1. edit the Domain server for the domainname you are interested in and add a CNAME record for something like blog.domainname.com which points to your WPMU installation.
    eg. I added the CNAME blog.clearskys.net to the clearskys.net DNS settings and set it to point to cafespain.com
  2. Create a blog in your WPMU installation – it doesn’t matter what you call it for now – use the existing admin system to create it.
  3. Add a record in wp_site with the the domain of the new blog. eg. in this case clearskys.net and set the path to /
  4. Duplicate the wp_sitemeta entries for your new site (insert into wp_sitemeta (site_id, meta_key, meta_value) SELECT x, meta_key, meta_value FROM wp_sitemeta WHERE site_id = 1 (change x to the id of the new site record created at step 3.
  5. Modify the record for the blog you created in wp_blogs and change the domain to the CNAME you created in step 1 (in this case blog.clearskys.net) and change the site_id to the id of the site record in step 3.
  6. Modify all the records in wp_xx_options (where xx is the record number of your blog in step 5) that have the domain path, so that it is the same as that set in step 5 (blog.clearskys.net).
  7. Wait a bit for the DNS changes to propagate and access the website at blog.clearskys.net, voila one wordpress blog, with it’s own domain running off an installation of WPMU at a different one.

There’s some discussion of issues with administration of blogs on other domains farther down after that recipe, but we’ll burn that bridge when we come to it.