Google Analyticator plugin adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google Analytics tracking across your site(s). It also includes widgets for Analytics data display.
Set your blog as Blog category and your portfolio as Portfolio category. You might be also interested in Custom Post types (which I think is the right way to do it): Run your Blog as a usual via Posts and set the Portfolio as Custom post type with its own categories, tags or what ever … Read more
blogs.dir was the way to handle specific blog plugins and themes when it was WordPress-MU but since version 3 came out and the WordPress-MU was integrated into WordPress Core and introduced WordPress Multisite, that’s no longer the story. WordPress Handles the creation of the new blogs/sites in the database and mainly in the background so … Read more
According to your sites quantity and requirements, I will recommend you cloud hosting, as it is fully flexible you can upgrade it any time, Or you can go with VPS. For cloud rackspace is the best, and it has good uptime + Live Chat support(I have never used, but heard a lot good reviews about … Read more
take a look at Mingle Forum plugin, which is nice, simple and did the job for me on a couple of sites. also bbPress looks promesing but its still in a beta stage like @Rarst pointed out. and last you have SimplePress which is by far the most feature rich forum plugin I’ve seen.
I hope you are using different theme in each site Just add this code in your header.php file. <link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/25736/<?php bloginfo(“stylesheet_directory’); ?>/favicon.ico” /> Add your favicon in each theme. For favicon in admin area. Add the following function in your function.php file. function admin_favicon() { ?> <link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/25736/<?php bloginfo(“stylesheet_directory’); ?>/favicon.ico” /> … Read more
First when you register your custom taxonomy use the capabilities argument and define your custom capabilities: ‘capabilities’ => array( ‘manage_terms’ => ‘manage_cities’, ‘edit_terms’ => ‘edit_cities’, ‘delete_terms’ => ‘delete_cities’, ‘assign_terms’ => ‘assign_cities’ ), and only give your users the assign_terms capability this way they wont be able to create new terms, only YOU. Then use the … Read more
Every user can set this value on the My Sites admin screen. It defaults to the first blog a user created in the MultiSite instance, if it’s unset and the user creates a new blog, that blog becomes his primary blog.
The codex has some very detailed advice: Upgrading_WPMU. Make sure to test it on a safe copy of the real site.
The framework is not the problem. You just need to exclude your Consulting category from the loop each time you have it. Then use a custom template for the marketing page. Another option would be to set up a multi-site install and then use Consulting as its own blog. EDIT: To exclude the category try … Read more