Attach a custom string (or two) to each "Site"

  • Hello there! Doing some multi-site development (I still want to call them blogs, gosh darn) that includes about a dozen different “Sites”. Each Site is featured on the home page (/) in a rotator of images of the writer’s faces (one writer per Site). Currently, I’m doing that with some custom PHP using a hook in my theme.

    Right now, my options are being stored as PHP arrays, with identification information that duplicates the canonical WordPress options. I’m now rewriting this rotator in a more sustain way, using data from the WordPress sites backend, but the requirement for my project requires me storing a custom string (or two) with each Site.

    Looking at the backend, there’s a dump of the wp_X_options table, where X is the ID of the Site. Is there a way to add a field for a custom option to each of those options tables in a sustainable way, such that it’d show and be editable up on that dump? Rather than writing a plugin that acts as an editor for this data, storing it there seems to make the most sense to me.

    Thanks in advance for the help!

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  • Why not just use an avatar plugin and pull that info? ??

    Seems like a lot of wheel reinventing here.

    Thread Starter rmondello

    (@rmondello)

    Andrea,

    Good point — but this is a little more custom than avatars. The image part is handled already, I just want a string (think a longer blog description) to be attached to each blog’s database table.

    Yeah, you can stuff it in the options table. Same exact way as if it were a single stand-along blog.

    Thread Starter rmondello

    (@rmondello)

    Andrea, thanks a bunch! Do you know of any tools to make this easy on the front-end? I want my client to be able to easily edit these strings (attached to each blog’s options table) in the future, long after I’m gone.

    Again, I appreciate your advice.

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