colinmcgray

It was at the bottom Mika, but have now moved to the top and it’s working perfectly, thanks for your help!

No, sorry, still having the same problem!

Surprised Hugh hasn’t got back.. he’s usually pretty prompt.

No worries, glad to help develop an already excellent plugin ??

I wonder, as a stopgap, can you think of an easy place within the code to hard-code a redirect URL? I can’t help but think it must be really easy to just append that URL to the main media URL. For BluBrry for example, all it does is take an MP3 URL in wordpress, remove the HTTP:// and add https://media.blubrry.com/xxx/ onto the front.

Any ideas appreciated!
Thanks
Colin

Just to let you know Hugh, I’d be your first subscriber for a premium version that provided stats tracking. It’s something I@ve been exploring for ages, but not been able to find a good solution.

If you need a site to beta-test, let me know.

Thanks,
Colin

Excellent, great idea Hugh.

I hadn’t realised I could define settings for all plugins within one custom plugin, but now you describe it, it makes sense.

Thanks again for your help,
Colin

That’s brilliant, thanks Hugh! Works perfectly when using the same theme each time.

I wonder, is there a place to put this that isn’t the theme functions file? I have used a ‘random theme’ plugin for new accounts in the past, so putting that snippet in the theme functions file might not be practical.

Is there another functions file that is run each time a new site is set up?

Thanks again for all your help,
Colin

Hi Hugh, that’s amazing, thanks! I’ll get the update installed now.

Cheers!
Colin

Excellent, thanks Hugh – I’ll let you know if I find anything!

Hi Hugh, thanks for getting back to me.

I understand that this is the case when you’re looking at the feed which is empty, but I’m finding that having an empty posts feed stops the separate Podcast feed from working too.

So, I have a few Podcasts posted, so that feed contains, say, 3 items, but there are no posts so that feed’s empty. That empty posts feed seems to stop the Podcast feed working too, even though it contains a few items.

Is that WordPress overriding the SSP feed to cause trouble…?

Thanks,
Colin

Many thanks Hugh – looks like it’s working great!

I can honestly say I’ve never come across a more responsive plugin developer – I’ll definitely be sticking with SSP ??

Brilliant, thanks for your help Hugh.

You can find the plugin here:
https://www.volcanicpixels.com/password-protect-wordpress-plugin/

It would actually be great to be able to just password protect a feed without the use of a plugin like this. Powerpress seems to allow it, but only with custom feeds, and I much prefer your Plugin’s podcasting workflow anyway. Is there an easy way to add a username/password to the main feed without a plugin?

Or, of course, any tips on how to make the SSP feed act like the other WP feeds and become password protected by the Private Blog plugin?

Any help much appreciated,
Colin

Hi Richard, thanks for that update. I actually opted to start from scratch, installing a brand new Multisite, and migrating the blogs manually. A bit of work, I know, but the site benefitted from the clear-out.

Quick question to you or Mika though:

I had thought that the point of dropping ms-files was that files were then delivered with no redirects, just a link direct to the file.

But… when I upload files to the media library now, it includes the actual path, but still puts on the site name at the start. eg:

The file is physically at –
https://www.themultisite.com/wp-content/uploads/site/15/2013/1/1/podcast.mp3

But in the media library it’s listed as –
https://www.themultisite.com/subsite/wp-content/uploads/site/15/2013/1/1/podcast.mp3

Is this then still redirecting to reach the file? The 1st link above does work, but I want to use it all the time, rathern than the second, because iTunes and other Podcasting platforms have trouble streaming from the redirected link.

If either of you can shed any light on this I’d much appreciate it!

Thanks,
Colin

Thanks for the help on this Mika!

I’m still trying to figure it out, but your blog post on the subject helped a bit too. I see you think there are still ways to improve on how you did it though. Do you happen to have done any more work on it since? I’d be really interested to know whether you’ve streamlined the process since…

Also, do you think it might be better to start from scratch? I think this might be a good time to streamline my site, getting rid of the chaff. I reckon I could get it down to around 50 active sites. At this level, I think it’s almost worth starting again, installing 3.5 as a blank canvas and then just importing the old blogs. I’m not entirely sure how tricky that might be though…. what do you think?

Colin

Thanks very much for getting back to me!

So, it’s a pretty manual process… That’s going to take a fair while to do with a large Multisite… If it’s the only way though

In step 2, I’m not sure I understand how you would do this – where would you make the edit?

Thanks!
Colin