Single install or multisite?

You could go with multisite, but as long as they’re only asking for a different look and feel, you could work it out with Templates and conditional statements for enqueueing styles, scripts, etc. For the ease of things, I’d go with a single site install.

Notice bar at frontpage for multisite

You can use the adminbar on front. Plus you can customize it to your needs. Example on how to add a node // Read here 1) function nacin_promote_network_admin_in_toolbar( $wp_admin_bar ) { $wp_admin_bar->add_node( array( ‘id’ => ‘network-admin’, ‘parent’ => false, ) ); } add_action( ‘admin_bar_menu’, ‘nacin_promote_network_admin_in_toolbar’, 25 ); 1) Read on WPDevel how to add/remove_nodes in … Read more

Redirect Site Geologically

You can try this http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/geographical-redirect/ Alternatively, roll your own, using any GeoIP service (MaxMind for example, or get your own GeoIP database) and use wp_redirect based on the $_SERVER[‘REMOTE_ADDR’].

How to recover deleted site in WordPress Multisite?

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.3.1/wp-admin/includes/ms.php#L46 Notice, how drop defaults to false; this means that the blog tables are not removed. Deleting is triggered from over here: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.3.1/wp-admin/ms-delete-site.php#L19 and nowhere else by default. Unless you have a plugin that forces drops on the tables there’s still a chance to recover something. First of all backup the database before attempting anything. … Read more

Aggregate multisite RSS and restrict certain content

The bottom line is that you’ll need to have all the post content in one place in order to be able to form it into a single feed. (Querying efficiently across 18 different post tables is more or less impossible.) My go-to method is to use the Sitewide Tags plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-sitewide-tags/, which allows you to … Read more

How to protect post attachments related to a custom post type, from non-logged in users, on 1 subsite of a multisite installation?

Andrew, In the case where your custom post type exists on only one sub-site of your Multi Site installation, you can in your template file in which controls the display and output of your custom post type work with simple conditional functions such as; is_singular(‘post_type_name’); is_user_logged_in(); …and in-fact it might well be as simple as; … Read more

Memory question on WordPress Multisite

No, this has to do with each page load and uses PHP’s memory_get_usage() plugin. Every page load will have a slightly different memory usage. Disabling plugins will decrease it, as the plugin doesn’t have to load on that page. This means that the usage will be different on every blog, and possibly on different pages … Read more