Categories are meta data for n:n relations: Each category can be related to multiple posts, and each post to multiple categories. So categories aren’t what you need. I would set up a multi site installation. Use the main site for everything related to all sub sites and the subdomains or sub blogs for each section. … Read more
Why am I doing wrong? You’re breaking WordPress. On a subdirectory installation, the /blog permalink is there on purpose and for a very specific reason – to make your main site continue to work while still allowing you a network dashboard. When you install a subdirectory site, WordPress automatically uses /blog for the main site … Read more
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While this question is several months old and you’ve probably figured something out already, I figured it was worth answering anyway. This is possible to do using the WP Multi Network Plugin. WordPress has the underlying structure to accomplish this, but no accompanying UI — this plugin merely offers that interface. Some things are not … Read more
The mechanic is the same in Single and Multisite installations. And yes, the plugins inside mu-plugins will be activated in the entire Network. To enable a new thumbnail size in all the sites except the one with ID equal to 3: global $blog_id; if( $blog_id != 3 ) add_image_size( ‘category-thumb’, 300, 9999 ); //300 pixels … Read more
You’re looking for get_site_option(). From the Codex: Retrieve option value based on name of option. In multisite, return network option, blog option otherwise.
See http://wpmututorials.com/how-to/localization/ Basically after you install the language packs, go to that site and change the language option from the admin area.
simple list all last post about the network, not the popular posts; for popular posts you must use an plugin or track via Google Analytics etc. <ul class=”postlist no-mp”> <?php $blogs = $wpdb->get_results( “SELECT blog_id,path FROM {$wpdb->blogs} WHERE blog_id != {$wpdb->blogid} AND site_id = ‘{$wpdb->siteid}’ AND spam = ‘0’ AND deleted = ‘0’ AND archived … Read more
BackPress does not offer any multisite support libraries, you’ll have to build those yourself with the support of the WordPress multisite source code. The following are the major parts making up multisite functionality: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.3.1/wp-admin/network.php, deployment of a multisite environment. http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.3.1/wp-admin/includes/ms.php, most multisite administration functionality http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.3.1/wp-admin/includes/ms-deprecated.php, deprecated administration functionality, can have some useful stuff http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.3.1/wp-includes/ms-functions.php, Multiite … Read more
In short: No, it hasn’t been fixed – You should use the plugin instead. In Detail: Activation hooks should work for the main site properly. For subsites (or as Nacin pointed out: for all sites), you should use a proper upgrade routine. Not that I double that 1). 1) Note to myself: When a core … Read more