justinbriggs1

I had success with a few of them, but I ran into a similar problem when I tried to use an ad-manager widget across all blogs. Didn’t work, not sure why. I ended up just using a text widget for the ads, so that sort of solved my problem.

I have found a bunch of other resources and forum posts on this topic since I started this thread. There are several that specifically state that this is possible, but I haven’t seen any evidence that switch_to_blog() works sidebars in this manner. Unless someone has a working example?

Yes, that is one I created myself, and it works on the main blog just fine, but not in the sub blog in this scenario

That’s exactly what I am looking for. I think it will be fine for our needs, I don’t expect a lot of sub-blogs or traffic to any of the sites. I can’t seem to get it to work, however, when I apply it to my dynamic sidebars. I have it set up like this in my sidebar.php file:

<?php
switch_to_blog(1);
dynamic_sidebar( 'global-widget-area' );
restore_current_blog();
?>

Still getting a blank sidebar on the sub-blog. Any idea why?

Hard coding is one option, and would work for most of the sidebar items, but the problem is that they have a couple of plugins, such as the advertising manager, that they want to retain control of, and will update globally across the main blog and all sub blogs. That would mean that I would have to somehow pull only the specified widgets from the main blog, and then hard code the other ones into the sidebar at certain positions.

I wouldn’t mind taking all of the widget control away from the sub-blog user, which is feasible, but I still don’t know how to display the widgets from the main blog globally.

That’s what I was thinking too, but the client seems to have this already in place on their current custom proprietary CMS, and will likely insist. I’ll probably just use some php to set up a mailer when the site is accessed, and if it gets out of hand we can turn it off.

I found the error, it was the attempt to define the current page with bloginfo; I just left the form action blank, which I was under the impression would not work with WP, but now everything is in working order.

Thanks, I was looking for something very similar, but I would also like to select all of the pages, not just a few. How would I go about doing that?

Actually, never mind, Analyticator plugin will track outbound links automatically without the code needing to be added.

Justin

Here is the answer:

https://stylizedweb.com/2008/08/13/query_posts-pagination-problem/

Cool, I’ll see what I can do and post a solution if I come up with one. Thanks.

JW

I would like to have the page break based on the word count of the post, as you can with the_excerpt();

I’m sorry, I was trying to do this automatically, without the use of tags like nextpage. Is there a way to do this?

Thanks, I appreciate it. The built in functionality actually should have been working when I posted but there was an error loading the comment-reply.js script that I didn’t notice until I went through that article.

Justin

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Cool, thanks that is exactly what I was looking for.