Publish network post (type) to other network site(s)

  • Resolved Nugerama

    (@nugerama)


    10 years, 10 months ago

    Hi there, I hope someone has experience of this issue and can perhaps point me in the direction of a plugin that might help me out. NB: this is not an aggregation issue that can be solved by the Sitewide Tags Plugin, as I understand it.

    MY SETUP: I have a multisite network of four sites, (UK, US, CH and Global) and want to achieve two things that will prevent me having to duplicate post type content:

    1) On my main ‘Global’ site I have a ‘testimonial’ post type which I would like to feature the content from on each of my network sites.

    2) I also have a blog on the main site and I would like to allow these posts to be ‘published’ on the network sites in addition to (mixed together chronologically or listed along side) their own localised blog posts.

    I did come across a plugin called Network Shared Posts which would appear to at least attempt to do what I need but sadly doesn’t work and doesn’t appear to have been updated or supported in quite some time. This shortcode approach would be an ideal solution though.

    Any tips or pointers will be very gratefully received as I’ve been wrestling with this for quote a while now. Many thanks for you time.

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    In general, people will suggest you not do this, since duplicating content between sites is bad for your SEO.

    In addition, you’re going to have to fork pretty much any plugin you find, since those do posts and you’re using a custom post type, which traditionally aren’t shared.

    But. Looking at network posts, are you sure you remembered to set the post_type correctly?

    Thread Starter Nugerama

    (@nugerama)

    Your dead right Ipstenu, I think I’ll go back and have another conversation with my client regarding the SEO implications.

    As it happens, I have now got the Network Posts pulling in the custom post type albeit with a bunch of errors coming out first (Warning: Missing argument 2 for wpdb::prepare(), called in /home/globalrt/public_html/wp-content/plugins/network-shared-posts/network-shared-posts.php on line 118 and defined in /home/globalrt/public_html/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 992). I previously had the testimonials plugin only activated on the one site, not network activated.

    I see now anyway that it only links to that content on the other site which I can quite easily do manually in this case as there’s currently only three to play with. I think that I should be looking for a whole other solution in this case that doesn’t involve simply duplicating content.

    Thanks again for the feedback.

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