It looks like the original poster has not been around for awhile, but I am working on this same plugin trying to figure out a way to make it usable.
The developers have been saying for over a year that they are going to get around to up-dating this plugin, but for now you have to invent your own way to use it. In my searches A LOT of people have been asking how to do this:
So, here is what I have come up with so far. My PHP skills are minimal, so be short with your mockery and any feedback is very appreciated on how to make this more concise:
I wrote a function that can be placed in the functions.php file, and then you can use the function on any page template like so (just an example):
<h3 class="pagetitle">A List of Categories and Sites</h3>
<?php get_blog_types(); ?>
and here is the function:
<?php
function get_blog_types() {
global $wpdb , $blog_types , $blog_subtypes;
//first I get all of the blog_type names
foreach($blog_types as $blog_type){
$blog_type_name = $blog_type['nicename'];
$blogtypenames = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT blog_ID, blog_types FROM wp_blog_types where blog_types="|$blog_type_name|" "); //echo the blog-type
echo '<h3>';
echo $blog_type['name'];
echo '</h3>';
//Second I get the sites in each blog-type
foreach( $blogtypenames as $blogtypename ) {
//Third I get he names of those sites
$sitename = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT option_value, blog_id FROM wp_".$blogtypename->blog_ID ."_options WHERE option_name="blogname" ");
foreach( $sitename as $name ) {
$blogs = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT domain,path FROM wp_blogs where blog_id = ". $blogtypename->blog_ID."");
foreach( $blogs as $blog ) {
// Create bullet
echo '<li>';
echo '<a href="http://';
echo $blog->domain;
echo $blog -> path;
echo '">';
echo $blogtypename->blog_ID;
echo $name->option_value;
echo '</a></li>';
}; //end fifth
}; //end fourth
}; //end third
}; //end second
} //end first
?>
I am going to work on it some more to include sub-types and probably just turn it into a plugin once I have it ironed out more, but I thought it would be helpful to get it out for anyone else messing with this.