If you have ever setup a WordPress Multi-Site aka a WordPress Network, you know that it is not quite the famous 5-minute install that the single site version can be. The few bumps in the road that you encounter are well worth smoothing over as the simplicity of having a single instance of the back-end code to update for multiple domains is worth the effort.
Learn how to capture and display custom fields in a template using More Fields, a plugin that “enables you to define post types, which are custom Write/Edit pages that contains a pre-defined set of boxes”
Wordpress 2.7 offers direct download of plugins from the Plugin Repository. This tutorial shows you how to maintain a plugin code on the Wordpress repository using Dreamweaver.