My first recommendation would be to delete or rename your .htaccess file. That file is what contains the guts of WordPress’ redirection engine. And that’s also the only thing that could be redirecting from the login. WordPress redirects virtual URLs to http://blog.url/index.php so that the blog can serve up content. But the admin dashboard and … Read more
WordPress doesn’t (and won’t) support this natively. The alternative is to write your own template with a custom request. (You might even have to drop down into MySQL – I’m not sure the built in WordPress query system will be capable of this.) Check out this plugin though: WordPress MU Sitewide Tags Pages It might … Read more
I’ve had to write some custom stuff to copy settings across blogs. Currently I’ve got a plugin with two textareas: A read-only box with a base64 encoded serialized string of all the blog options (wp_options) I care about (in this case, widgets, sidebars, and options from a specific plugin) A field that can accept the … Read more
Here’s a plugin for you: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/yd-wpmu-sitewide-options/ The option that you’re looking for is: comment_moderation comment_whitelist
Option 2 should work, I just wrote http://wp.leau.co/2010/12/24/moving-a-weblog-to-a-wp3-multisite-weblog-system-on-mediatemple/ themes: you should NOT network activate all themes, only activate them on a specific site via the site settings for a blog plugins: disable the setting in the network admin to display plugin etc.. How to enable a theme for a specific site To network-enable or to … Read more
WordPress 3 uses the mu-plugins folder in exactly the same way as MU used to use it. Everything in there is automatically active sitewide. Note that WP 3 has some newer methods for dealing with plugins though that you may want to consider switching to. For example, the Network Activation allows you to install a … Read more
TimThumb is enough of a resource drain on a non-network install; I can only imagine how much more of a resource drain it would be on a network install. Rather than trying to make TimThumb work on your network install, why not just use the core Post Thumbnail functionality? TimThumb is absolutely unnecessary in WordPress.
You can access the blog ID you are on by global $blog_id; and then you can use that how you want it to work.
Yes. Use the Domain Mapping Plugin. Plugins can be enabled network-wide, or on a per-site basis. You can choose whether or not to give site admins the capability to activate/deactivate Plugins. Plugin settings are on a per-site basis. The Network Administration handles updates to core, Plugins, and Themes, and automates updating the database tables for … Read more
There are two plugins that do exactly what you want, and I have used them both extensively. First, ThreeWP-Broadcast. This plugin lets you “broadcast” posts from your sub blogs to your main blog (or the other way around). It also allows you to link to broadcasted post to the original, as well as auto create … Read more