What is the most efficient way to have two “blogs” on one site?
Create two custom post types, one for each blog. Then you can add custom taxonomies to each one of them.
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Excluding a page with a certain name from wp_page_menu
How about using get_page_by_path(), then using the ID from the returned object in an exclude filter? add_filter(‘wp_page_menu_args’,’my_nav_exclude_pages’); function my_nav_exclude_pages( $args = array() ) { $homepage = get_page_by_path(‘my-page-slug’); $args[‘exclude’] = join( ‘,’, array( $args[‘exclude’], $homepage->ID ) ); return $args; }
wordpress htaccess is hijacking my .mp4 files
A missing mime type should not cause a 404 page but the AddType needs to be wrapped in <IfModule mod_mime.c> tags. <IfModule mod_mime.c> AddType video/mp4 .mp4 .m4v AddType video/mpeg .mpeg .mpg .mpe AddType video/asf .asf .asx .wax .wmv .wmx AddType video/avi .avi AddType video/quicktime .mov .qt AddType audio/ogg .ogg </IfModule> I’m running jw player on … Read more
Global searchin multisite but only with one subsite
Perhaps you can use this plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/multisite-global-search/ it uses MySQL views to achieve a global search. Maybe you can use it, or adapt it to your needs?
Sitewide page on all the blogs in the network
Guess you’re looking for a post or page broadcaster that can help you push post or page creation and update to your multisite blogs. Give these plugins a try: ThreeWP Broadcast Multipost MU (dead link, mirror at the Internet Archive : Wayback Machine)
Automatically adding post and pages to new blog setups
You can use the export feature to export the posts. Go to Tools>Export and choose WordPress. You will be prompted to add a plug-in at when you import it into the other sites. Just click install plug-in at the screen that pops up. You can then upload the XML file that you generated by exporting … Read more
Override database config for WordPress multisite
Just came up with a solution to this issue posted here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12958123/override-wp-siteurl-and-wp-home-for-wordpress-multisite/ Basically you do not copy the wp_site and wp_blogs tables to your development installs when pulling in a production database, and have pre-configured them locally for your development URLs. You then leverage a network-wide plugin to set the WP_SITEURL and WP_HOME values based … Read more
how to activate plugin network-wide, and save setting across sites
Plugins can be activated network-wide by using the “Network Activate” link, or by placing the Plugin’s folder inside the \wp-content\mu-plugins directory. For network-wide settings versus site-specific settings, I would look at how other Plugins implement such settings, such as WordPress MU Domain Mapping.
Plugin Uninstall and Deactivate via Options Menu
You just need to obtain the basename of any plugin to deactivate it. if( $uninstall == true ) { delete_option( ‘CHANGETHIS’ ); deactivate_plugins( plugin_basename( __FILE__ ) ); } Generally they look like mypluginfolder/mypluginmasterfile.php Give that a shot. There are a variety of ways to getting it to work. If you want a button on the … Read more
Same footer on all multisites blogs
First of all, using the same footer.php file for multiple themes would be problematic, as different themes use different elements which need to be closed in this file. A better way would be to create a custom function that you call in every footer.php file. Such a function would be best placed in a file … Read more