There are a lot of specific to figure out, but your basic options are to handle it: In runtime. Stuff common core into plugin or just load it from same directory for all core themes. In development. Set up a version control, make a script that will check out common files to all core themes.
Its built in that way so you can have themes only on specific blogs: Disable the theme under Super Admin -> Themes. Enable the theme for one site under Super Admin -> Edit the site you want. Look on the top right, there’s a list of disabled themes.
I think that is possible with the plugin WordPress MU Sitewide Tags: (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-sitewide-tags/) With that plugin you can republish content from all sites OR a selection and you can choose to publish it to the main site OR to a new subsite.
Although I have not tested a use case such as yours. If the trouble is with path to the images in the posts and other you can give WordPress OneClick Migration a try. It was designed with Database level migration but it should work. You may need to run it in forced mood. See the … Read more
It’s definitely possible. And there are a few plugins to help make it easier Diamon Multisite Widgets Bloglist, recent posts and comments from the whole network. WordPress MU Sitewide Tags A central area where all the posts on a WordPress MU or WordPress MS site can be collected. This plugin creates a new blog on … Read more
Try this: global $current_blog; $blog = get_blog_details($current_blog->blog_id);
I would recommend using Peters Login Redirect to redirect users after login I have used it before and works well. You could redirect users to the secure area by adding the below to your .htaccess file : Redirect 301 blog1.example.com/wp-admin/dashboard.php secure.example.com/wp-admin
Have you tried installing and configuring the “WordPress MU Domain Mapping” plugin? There’s an excellent tutorial available. Please note you have to manually install this plugin.
This tutorial was just published at DevPress by Patrick Carey: http://web.archive.org/web/20111222021406/http://devpress.com/blog/how-to-setup-subdomains-for-a-local-wordpress-network It should help you. It has been written for Windows but you should be able to translate it into “Mac”
Have you enabled Plugins for network sites, via the Network Admin? Also, MU (must-use) or network-activated Plugins won’t show in the site dashboard, IIRC.