You are correct about the row not having much use outside of a two day threshold where a user doesn’t activate their account. I took a look at the codebase and can confirm there is no API function for removing a signup entry. The only code that removes a signup is the wpmu_validate_user_signup() function. It … Read more
Try Piwik. It runs on your own webspace, and you can give limited access to other users.
I believe the domain mapping plugin can do this, but don’t quote me on that. Domain mapping isn’t necessarily limited to mapping to other domains. It can map to subdirectories too.
I don’t know of you like the sound of domain mapping but check out http://codex.wordpress.org/Migrating_Multiple_Blogs_into_WordPress_3.0_Multisite and check out number 6 if they are on the same server. If not import seperate install into them so that number 6 works.
Multisite does not have cross-posting built in. you can do what you want with one of these: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/threewp-broadcast/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/multipost-mu/
Instead of parsing the RSS feed, you could query the second blog directly with the builtin XML-RPC webservices, described in this Question.
There are two options I’m aware of, and neither are free: http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/new-blog-template http://wpebooks.com/replicator/ I haven’t actually tried either of them yet, so can’t recommend one over the other.
You could create a network-of-networks, using the WP Multi Network Plugin. The primary network would be a subdomain network, and the subsidiary networks would be subdirectory networks. Alternately, you could simply set up a subdomain network, and then use a static front page in each of the network sites, with the blog posts index set … Read more
I figured it out. The fact is, a network can use subdomains or subfolders, even when WordPress is installed in it’s own folder as long as the main site’s HOME URL is set to domain.com and not to the sub folder location. Here’s an example: I setup a clean install of WordPress using Mark Jaquith’s … Read more
Have you considered wpmu_delete_blog? http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wpmu_delete_blog