andrewmowder

Sorry for the late response on this. I hadn’t had a chance to mess with it again until yesterday. It ended up being nothing more than the widgets in the sidebar. I began to create a new site (to replicate the old and then replace it). I started building the new site the same as the old, testing as I went. I put in the sidebar the same and received a 500 error. Then I immediately went back to the site that was not working, pulled the sidebar, and it worked instantly. I ended up putting it back exactly the same way it was and now everything works. Must’ve just been some weird glitch.

Anyway, THANK YOU all very much for your help on this. It is MUCH appreciated.

We are running on IIS 7, no Apache. Nothing in the event logs. We are using a web.config and .net 2.0(because it’s Windows). The site has been running without incident for around 8 months. until now, anyway…

Thank you!

We applied write prilivages to the write directory and everything below it and still no luck.

Follow up:

I emailed the author. He suggested adding write permissions to the diamond-multisite-widgets directory for the IUSR account. We did this and it failed.

It gets ‘permission denied’ on file_get_contents and file_put_contents functions.

Any ideas?

yeah, I’ve tried that. I forgot to mention before that I’m running IIS 7 on Windows. Perhaps it’s just not compatible with that + WP 3.2.1.

Do you happen to know of any other plugins/combination of plugins that might take the place of Diamond MultiSite? I haven’t much luck finding anything close.

Ipstenu,

I think I’ve partially figured out the issue. I think it is some sort of caching issue. When I remove the diamond multisite plugin (manually) it still shows in the admin area and allows me to mess with the settings. When I add it into addw2p it will show that it’s there, but of course when I visit the homepage it is not there (albeit the page DOES display. The error messages (above in my first post) that display when the plugin is installed in the directory shows, for example:

\wp-content\plugins\diamond-multisite-widgets\diamond-cache.php on line 26

Note the ‘diamond-cache.php’ portion of that. Do you know where WordPress is saving the settings for a removed plugin, and how to delete/reset that?

I think maybe I’m on the right track here, but maybe not…

Thank you in advance,

Andrew

Also, possibly related – what is the diffence between plugins showing up in network admin vs. site admin? Most of my widgets are in network admin, but a couple of them are showing up in site admin.

Yeah, I’ve de-activated/activated it quite a few times, deleted and re-installed it several times, and have even gone so far as to test it with just ‘recent comments’ active, with just ‘recent posts’ active etc. (I am placing these inside of the addw2p plugin on my homepage. This worked fine in 3.1.3 but hasn’t worked since the manual upgrade to 3.2.1. Every page that doesn’t contain the diamond multisite widget will work fine even when it’s activated, but the homepage (the page it’s on) will not. As soon as I de-activate it, the page comes back (sans plugin, of course).

I had this same problem. I just figured out that if, under:

Maximum post per blog (0 for unlimited):

If you select ‘0’ it displays the most recent.

If, however you select 1, 2, etc. it displays the first post from each blog. This really goofs me up, because I need the most recent posts (1 only) from each of l0 selected blogs.

Anyone have any ideas, or is this just a bug?

You’re talking about the “Shortcodes’ Documentation”, right? Now I just need to learn how to work with shortcodes.

Thanks again!

I think I’m on the right track. Thank you.

But, can I add a shortcode to the “format string” input box. If so, what is the syntax for adding this?

I installed diamond multisite and began working with it. I love the idea of it and the options, but I’m not yet finding a way to make it work the way I need it to. It has all the different options for the format string, but what I’m needing to have is the following format:

• Article Title 1 (Blog 1)
• Article Title 2 (Blog 2)
• Article Title 3 (Blog 3)
• Article Title 4 (Blog 4)
• Article Title 5 (Blog 5)
• Article Title 6 (Blog 6)
• Article Title 7 (Blog 7)
• Article Title 8 (Blog 8)
• Article Title 9 (Blog 9)
• Article Title 10 (Blog 10)

Is there any way to have the title of the article show up?

Thank you,

Andrew

I’m still fairly new to WordPress and I’m probably not describing the details well – at all… sorry about that.

I have 31 sites under a multsite setup (it’s a collection of different blogs). At the bottom of the main site, I’m bringing in Simple RSS Feeds Widget (to link to featured articles on the different blog sites) into the Main Sidebar via addw2p.

The issue doesn’t appear to be an option that can be changed through the widgets page, so I’m thinking it’s going to have to be a manual fix in the .php of either the Simple RSS Feeds Widget or the addw2p widget (I’m not sure which one would be causing the ‘January 1,1970’ date issue). Unfortunately I’m not as .php-savvy as I would like to be.

So would the diamond multisite widget work better for what I’m trying to do?

Thank you so much for the help on this.

Andrew

Please tell me they’re not all being pulled in from the same network, because you will crash your site that way.

no, they are not.

I’m thinking it has to be something in the .php of either the simple rss feeds widget or the addw2p .php. I’ll look into the diamond multisite widget.

Thank you both.

I ended up getting in using a different login, and was then able to go in and change super-admin (the one I couldn’t get into) from there.

Thank you!