Possible to broadcast already created posts?

  • Resolved Shariq Khan

    (@shariqkhan2012)


    8 years, 2 months ago

    Hi there,

    First of all, thank you for your awesome work.

    Next , I would appreciate if you can help me with a simple question:

    Is it possible for the plugin to broadcast already created posts?

    I have a multisite setup with about 80 sites and each site has about 40 posts.
    I have installed and activated the plugin and I understand that every NEW post I create from now on can be broadcasted to the blog I choose. I also understand from other threads that I can write some Javascript to do that automatically.
    But what about the posts that already exist (80 blogs x 40 posts each ~ 3.2k posts)? Is there a way I can get them to be broadcasted too?
    Is there asettign which might have missed? If there is no setting,would it be possible to do so with the help of some custom code.
    I am not asking for the entire code, just small hints would suffice; I know a bit of PHP , so I can probably write the complete code if I get a little direction.

    Thanks again for the wonderful plugin.

    Best regards.

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  • Plugin Author edward_plainview

    (@edward_plainview)

    Go to the blog that you wish to use as the parent blog, checkbox as many posts as possible (perhaps change the view setting so that you see 100 posts at a time?) and then use the “find unlinked children” bulk action.

    If the child posts all have the same slug and post status, they should be linked to the new parent post.

    Thread Starter Shariq Khan

    (@shariqkhan2012)

    @edward_plainview, thanks for the quick response.
    I am afraid, that this is not what I want. Your solution will try to FIND any unlinked children i.e it will try to find the posts with the same slug and title on the main blog and if it does, it will link them.

    I am not trying to do this. I installed this plugin only 2 days back and my posts were created about a month back. So I want these posts to now get broadcasted to the main blog. I know this will happen for the new posts I create from now on. But I do want it to happen for the posts that have already been created on the sub blogs (before the plugin was installed). So I want these posts which already exist on the sub blog (but not yet on the main blog) to now get broadcasted to the main blog.

    Is there a way to do this?

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by Shariq Khan.
    Plugin Author edward_plainview

    (@edward_plainview)

    Oh, now I understand.

    Since you’re asking about code, I can point you to the Broadcast API, which should be easy enough to use. ??

    Thread Starter Shariq Khan

    (@shariqkhan2012)

    Thank you so much; I will be going through the docs now.

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