You can set up your blog & portfolio with one WordPress installation only. Fist check this codex article: http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page for portfolio it would be best if you’ll create Custom Post Type, then all you portfolio stuff will have permalinks like example.com/portfolio/some-great-project, but post permalinks would be the same – example.com/2011/07/14/hello-world/, maybe with some WP Rewrite … Read more
switch_to_blog isn’t deprecated anymore. You can use it just fine. However, it does have a bit of overhead, so you want to use it as little as possible.
$time = get_blog_details($blog_ID)->registered; $unix_time = strtotime($time); $my_time_format = date(‘Y-m-d H:i:s’, $time); // eg. 2011-09-28 00:20:34 $diff_format = human_time_diff($time); // eg. 2 days See date() and replace Y-m-d H:i:s with the format you want
That’s actually a snippet I wrote a while back, which has since been bettered with a plugin – I’d advise to check that out instead.
I did this for a while on my own Multisite network. Essentially, I had one site that was a central “hub” for all the others and pulled in content from the entire network. It’s not easy, but it can be done. One approach (the approach I used at the time) used a plugin to automatically … Read more
I think the problem may have been a plugin that grabbed other posts from another WordPress blog (that is on the same domain but not same WordPress instance) and inserted those posts into a site on the current multisite instance that is screwed up. For the record, the first trouble-shooting step should always be to … Read more
You need the Swedish language pack, and then you need to pick Swedish from that user’s profile on that blog. http://wpmututorials.com/how-to/localization/ The latter half of this post.
yup it is fast, it would be even better for you to use the WP Transients API to cache your query for a short period. Basically: if($saved = get_site_transient(‘SOME_SORT_OF_ID’)){ echo $saved; } else { ob_start(); switch_to_blog(x); // x being the blog id your want to switch to // Do your quering and echoing here restore_current_blog(); … Read more
Check your httpd.conf file. Sometimes Apache’s settings can be too restrictive and it doesn’t quite catch all the rewrite rules. Look for Allow FileInfo Options for that vhost. Might have to set it to All. I explain this here: http://wpmututorials.com/installation2/subfolder-blog-have-no-theme-styles/
You can go directly to the database via $wpdb. <?php $wpdb->get_results( “SELECT * FROM $wpdb->blogs WHERE archived = 1” ); Or wrapped up in a function: <?php function wpse34731_get_archived_blogs() { global $wpdb; if( empty( $wpdb ) ) return; $blogs = $wpdb->get_results( “SELECT * FROM $wpdb->blogs WHERE archived = 1” ); return $blogs; }