Im using the Sitewide Tags plugin to collect posts from all blogs in my multisite install so that i can display them on my main page.

The problem is that since all the posts are a copy from their respective blog, if i like a post (copy) on my main page, the like doesn’t affect the original post.

Is there any way i can make the plugin like/dislike two posts (the original and the copy) at the same time?

Thanks in advance

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I have a problem with the sitewide-tags plugin, when i use the quick page/post redirect plugin(from version 4.0) the redirect URL is not being stored. So after going through the code I came across the following line which seems to be affecting the quick page/post redirect plugin. When I commented this line out the quick page/post redirect plugin started working fine. Can anyone tell me how will deleting this line affect the functionality of the site-wide tags plugin.
$post->ID = $global_post->ID;(Line 422)

Thanks in advance

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I am just wondering if you could give me a bit of advice. I have limited exposure to WP multisites and I have a client that would like 5 sites all tied into the same database.

Most (80%) of the content will be mirrored across all sites so I wanted to be able to have it so that adding/removing/editing pages/posts etc. would apply ‘network wide’. Having played around with the MU Sitewide Tags plugin it appears as though this only mirrors content between 2 sites? Is that correct?

What do you think would be the best way to go about this? Are there any WP solutions? Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Cheers,
Phillip

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I installed the plugin, I have 5 sites total, with one being my main site (www.withalittlemoxie.com). My settings look like this:

Tags Blog Enabled
You can create your post archive in a specific ‘tags’ blog of your choosing, or you can use the main blog of your site. Each has it’s own pros and cons.

Blogname of the blog your global tags and posts will live in. Blog will be created.
Post to main blog
Create posts in your main blog. All posts will appear on the front page of your site. Remember to to add a post loop to home.php in the theme directory if it exists.
Max Posts
The maximum number of posts stored in the tags blog.
Include Pages Enabled
Include Post Thumbnails Enabled
Privacy Tags pages can be indexed by search engines.
Tags pages will not be indexed by search engines.
Will your tags pages be visible to Google and other search engines?
Non-Public Blogs Enabled
Include posts from blogs not indexed by search engines.
Post Meta
If you want to copy custom fields with posts. One custom field per line.

Populate Posts Blog ID: OR
All blogs
Add posts from the blog named above or all blogs to the sitewide tags blog. This page will reload while copying the posts and may take a long time to finish.
Note: Depending on your server resources, you may need to turn off other plugins while using the populate feature.

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What am I doing wrong? What do I need to put in so that it will post all posts to my main blog?

Thank you SO MUCH in advance for any and all help – I really appreciate it.

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In my case I’d love to publish to BlogID 6. I am just trying to figure out how, but after looking at the code I thought I’d try my luck with this suggestion first

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www.domain.eu -> site ID 1
www.otherdomain.de (otherdomain.domain.eu) -> site ID 6

The only reason I’d like to do it is that MU Sitewide Tags is currently populating Site ID 1 with posts from other blogs, and I think it would make more sense to have these in ID 6. Maybe there is another solution to do just this?

I have found different ‘solutions’, so I am not really sure how to proceed.

Thanks for reading

I love this plugin and just recently ran into my first issue, basically I’d need to reset the plugins posts, in order to switch he main blogs.

Just as info and “cheesy workaround” I’ll post how I solved the issue.

I simply set the max number of posts to [1] and created a “test” post. By reaching the new limit of “1” post all older “Sitewide Tags” posts were deleted. Now I deleted the test post again and it was as if the plugin had never existed.

However I think it would be a nice upgrade to be able to “reset” the plugin posts via the interface.

Thanks for reading,

Michael

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But for some reason, nothing could be change! The settings page of the plugin just loading with the default options and I’m unable to change any options here!…please can someone help me figure this?

Another thing I’ve noticed is: The plugin was activated from my Network admin & now set to Network Activated status, still the plugin doesn’t show in the list of plugins available inside other sites of the network. Can the plugin pull all posts information of all other sites of the network just by placing activating the plugin in the Network admin, or do we have to activate it to each site inside the network disabling it inside network admin, which works to make use of this plugin, so the Home page of the network can show all posts from all other sites inside the network?

Ipstenu (Mika E.), hope you’ll help me sort this!..

Look forward..
Thanks
Pradeep.

The main site is at dsnamerica.com/test/
One subsite example is at dsnamerica.com/test/idaho/

I can pull all content (title, post, links) and I have no problems changing or generating new permalinks. I do not think I have rewrite issue. I think the problem is in my theme’s code. This was a premium (cost bank) theme and I want to use it, but their response time is pretty bad at Magazine3 so I need help from you guys please.

I want to be able to post on the main site and sub sites, but see all of those posts on the main site’s index page. Of course I also want to see all articles published in test/idaho/ in the test/idaho site, and this is working perfectly. It’s only when I try to see an article from the Idaho subsite in the main site. I can also see the posts made in the main site just fine.

I think it’s how the theme’s code is calling the thumbnails. I’ll give you some code now since that’s what you want to see

Section of theme index.php:

<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
                 <?php if(get_option('thumbok')!="no"):?>  <?php if( has_post_thumbnail() ) { ?>
            <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail('smblock3_block_l'); ?></a>
             <?php } else { ?>
           <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">  <img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/img/noimg.png" alt="" style="width:284px; height:190px;" /> </a><?php } ?>
           <?php endif?>
           <?php if(get_option('thumbok')!="yes"):?>
<?php 	$m_scrp = get_template_directory_uri() . '/includes/timthumb.php?';
                    	$m_image = '';
                    	$customfields = get_post_custom();  if (empty($customfields['image'][0])) {
$m_image = m_theme_capture_first_image(); } else { $m_image = $customfields['image'][0]; } if (empty($m_image)) { $imgpath = $m_image_def;  	} else {
$imgpath = $m_scrp . 'src=' . $m_image . '&w=' . 284 . '&h=' . 190 . '&zc=1'; } ?>
  <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>">
  <img src="<?php echo $imgpath; ?>" alt="" /> </a>
 <?php endif?>

Yup… it uses timthumb. If you’re wondering, yes, I’ve modified the $allowedSites array to include dsnamerica.com. Also, as a test I’ve also included https://dsnamerica.com, https://dsnamerica.com/idaho as well. Right now, ALLOW_EXTERNAL is also set to TRUE, but if that makes you pee your pants a little, rest assured I will put it back to false after this problem is solved.

In my functions file I’ve added some custom image sizes because you’ll notice that the home/landing/index page of dsnamerica.com/test offers a variety of thumbnail/featured image sized areas.

if( function_exists( 'add_theme_support' ) ) {
	add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );	 add_theme_support( 'homepostthumbnails' );
  add_image_size( 'colorcontentblock4', 205, 120, true );
    add_image_size( 'featbigimg', 418, 215, true );
     add_image_size( 'secslider', 302, 238, true );
       add_image_size( 'content2', 150, 75, true );
               add_image_size( 'smblock1_block_l', 200, 150, true );
     add_image_size( 'smblock1_wrap_r1', 81, 61, true );
     add_image_size( 'smblock2_block_l', 328, 181, true );
              add_image_size( 'smblock3_block_l', 284, 190, true );
                       add_image_size( 'smblock4_block_l', 99, 66, true );
                 add_image_size( 'smblock5_block_l', 129, 67, true );
               add_image_size( 'smblock6_block_l', 138, 104, true );
			add_image_size( 'sidebar-thumb', 50, 50, true );
   add_image_size( 'relatedimg', 55, 55, true );    }

I have tested a great number of possible fixes. I can’t think this through anymore. But I did have a minor success by editing the index.php of the theme to use get_the_post_thumbnail() rather than has_post_thumbnail() and it is showing the thumbnails! But… they’re all the same default size (150). Here is the code I’ve edited in the slider section (same as the code I edited in the section below the slider):

<?php query_posts('showposts=5&cat='.of_get_option('example_select_categories').'&offset=0'); if (have_posts()) : ?>
 	<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
           	<div class="slide slides_threewrap">
             <?php if(get_option('thumbok')!="no"):?>  <?php has_post_thumbnail() ?>
            <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail('secslider'); ?></a>
             <?php if(function_exists('get_post_thumbnail_id') ) { ?>
             <?php } else { ?>
           <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">  <img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/img/noimg.png" alt=" " style="width:302px; height:238px;" /> </a><?php } ?>
           <?php endif?>
           <?php if(get_option('thumbok')!="yes"):?>

...blah blah, the rest is the same

Help a brother out! Could it be SWT problem? Theme code? My code? What’s the best way to fix this little/big problem?

Thanks all!

You’ll notice the different sections on the index page that have different sized images for the thumbnails. This is set up like this in the functions file:

if( function_exists( 'add_theme_support' ) ) {
	add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );	 add_theme_support( 'homepostthumbnails' );
	set_post_thumbnail_size( 'secslider', 302, 238, true );
	add_image_size( 'colorcontentblock4', 205, 120, true );
    add_image_size( 'featbigimg', 418, 215, true );
     add_image_size( 'secslider', 302, 238, true );
       add_image_size( 'content2', 150, 75, true );
               add_image_size( 'smblock1_block_l', 200, 150, true );
     add_image_size( 'smblock1_wrap_r1', 81, 61, true );
     add_image_size( 'smblock2_block_l', 328, 181, true );
              add_image_size( 'smblock3_block_l', 284, 190, true );
                       add_image_size( 'smblock4_block_l', 99, 66, true );
                 add_image_size( 'smblock5_block_l', 129, 67, true );
               add_image_size( 'smblock6_block_l', 138, 104, true );
			add_image_size( 'sidebar-thumb', 50, 50, true );
   add_image_size( 'relatedimg', 55, 55, true );    }

A section (we’ll use the slider at the top for this example) of the index.php file that should display the thumbnails:

<div class="slides_container">
		   <?php query_posts('showposts=5&cat='.of_get_option('example_select_categories').'&offset=0'); if (have_posts()) : ?>
 	<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
           	<div class="slide slides_threewrap">
             <?php if(get_option('thumbok')!="no"):?>  <?php if( has_post_thumbnail() ) { ?>
            <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail('secslider'); ?></a>
             <?php } else { ?>
           <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">  <img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/img/noimg.png" alt=" " style="width:302px; height:238px;" /> </a><?php } ?>
           <?php endif?>
           <?php if(get_option('thumbok')!="yes"):?>
<?php 	$m_scrp = get_template_directory_uri() . '/includes/timthumb.php?';
                    	$m_image = ''; $m_image_def = get_template_directory_uri() . '/img/noimg.png';
                    	$customfields = get_post_custom();  if (empty($customfields['image'][0])) {
$m_image = m_theme_capture_first_image(); } else { $m_image = $customfields['image'][0]; } if (empty($m_image)) { $imgpath = $m_image_def;  	} else {
$imgpath = $m_scrp . 'src=' . $m_image . '&w=' . 302 . '&h=' . 238 . '&zc=1'; } ?>
  <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>">
  <img src="<?php echo $imgpath; ?>" alt="" /> </a>
 <?php endif?>
          <h2> <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
      <?php the_content_limit('300'); ?>
      <div class="smallgal_meta">On <?php the_time('M j, Y') ?> <b>//</b> in <?php the_category(', ') ?> <b>//</b> <?php comments_popup_link(__('# 0'), __('# 1'), __('# %')); ?></div>
		 <div class="cb"></div>
		</div> <?php endwhile; ?>	<?php else : ?> 	<?php endif; ?>
		</div>

I have tried other plugins but they just won’t do what SWT does and many people seem to be having great success with it. What do you see in my index or function file that might be messing with it?

I know from the Codex that they shouldn’t be using showposts anymore, but… that’s what it is. If I need to change that, please walk me through it. “Wits end” is appropriate here.

Thanks all