Using the WordPress XML export doesn’t work in every case. Especially if you have to deal with plugins. I had the best results if I first installed the theme and all plugins in the network, created a new site, activated theme and plugins (in case they create data base tables) and then import the WordPress … Read more
Ok I actually ended up finding an answer by myself 😀 Check out this blog post: http://halfelf.org/2014/switching-main-blog-multisite/
You are correct about the row not having much use outside of a two day threshold where a user doesn’t activate their account. I took a look at the codebase and can confirm there is no API function for removing a signup entry. The only code that removes a signup is the wpmu_validate_user_signup() function. It … Read more
Try Piwik. It runs on your own webspace, and you can give limited access to other users.
I believe the domain mapping plugin can do this, but don’t quote me on that. Domain mapping isn’t necessarily limited to mapping to other domains. It can map to subdirectories too.
I don’t know of you like the sound of domain mapping but check out http://codex.wordpress.org/Migrating_Multiple_Blogs_into_WordPress_3.0_Multisite and check out number 6 if they are on the same server. If not import seperate install into them so that number 6 works.
Multisite does not have cross-posting built in. you can do what you want with one of these: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/threewp-broadcast/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/multipost-mu/
Instead of parsing the RSS feed, you could query the second blog directly with the builtin XML-RPC webservices, described in this Question.
There are two options I’m aware of, and neither are free: http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/new-blog-template http://wpebooks.com/replicator/ I haven’t actually tried either of them yet, so can’t recommend one over the other.
You could create a network-of-networks, using the WP Multi Network Plugin. The primary network would be a subdomain network, and the subsidiary networks would be subdirectory networks. Alternately, you could simply set up a subdomain network, and then use a static front page in each of the network sites, with the blog posts index set … Read more