View all new posts on main domain

I have to click populate posts on the sitewide tags for the main blog to populate, will it not do it itself?

As long as the sites are set to public, then as each new post is made, it is pulled to the main site with sitewide tags.

Where is the settings to make the sites public, by default?

All sites are set to be visible to everyone
dashboard->settings->privacy – is this what you were saying

yes, that.

Now make a new post. Does it go to the main site?

And you set up the sitewide tags options, correct?

Yes I did a new post from a sub domain, no it does not update auto.., only if I populate posts.

Strange though…

got alternates to sitewide tags

used ThreeWP got the error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’

Is it a PHP version error?
4 to 5 or 5 to 4?

Yes I did a new post from a sub domain, no it does not update auto.., only if I populate posts.

Works for me at homeschooljournal.net.

so what could be the error?

I have no idea. the sitewide tags plugin works fine for me.