Stephen Rider

I highly recommend you NOT edit the jspullquotes-core.css file. Instead, copy the Pull Quote Style you’re using and use it as a basis for a new custom style (“Default Wide” or whatever).

More info? What doesn’t work? When? Where? Why?

An interesting concept, but seems more like material for a different plugin. Perhaps I could add a hook into GPQ to make it easier for a “random quote” plugin to generate text….?

Not sure this is the place to post this.

sheri — It’s best to open a new topic rather than piggybacking on a different question. But while I’m here….

When I try to import the “Add Quicktag” data file the author of Graceful Pull Quotes recommends, I get a horrible screen full of errors.

I made the Add Quicktag import file quite a while ago, and that plugin may have changed the way it works since then. Sorry about the confusion. I would suggest just making the quicktag manually with that plugin. The “before” and “after” text should be:

Before:
<span class="pullquote">

After:
</span>

Your theme is loading the wp-head information twice, most likely.

(from the VMB developer)

Just to confirm — Yes Virtual Multiblog works just fine in testing with the latest 3.0 (RC1). In fact, VMB is designed to be *extremely* stable. In the entire time I’ve been working on VMB, there has been exactly ONE release of WP that could break it, and that was WP 2.6 which added the ability to move the wp-content directory. It’s always worth double-checking of course, but breaking VMB would require a significant change in the basic infrastructure of WordPress.

Essentially, all VMB does is pass a different wp-config.php file depending on what URL is pulling it up. WordPress takes that config and uses it normally from there.

The main aspects of VMB that differ from WP 3.0/MU are

1) VMB creates a completely separate install of WP, with none of the integrated “Network” stuff in the back end. For some applications this is a good thing. For others, not so much.

2) VMB has a handful of other features, such as the “always on” plugins. Not only MU plugins, but any regular old WP plugin can be set to “always on”, which WP 3.0/MU can’t do.

3) As pointed out, VMB can handle different domains, and can do subdirectories in ways WP 3.0 still can’t. No doubt these features will advance in WP down the road.

Spam Karma is excellent. I use that in combination with Bad Behavior (and one of my blogs uses Quiz too).

In WP 2.8 you can make a mu-plugins folder inside wp-content. Any PHP files placed therein are activated like plugins. (Technically speaking, they activate before plugins do….)

I’ll check into this. Not sure what might be causing it.

Does it happen if no other plugins are active? Best to rule out conflicts….

Sorry for the delay – I didn’t see your note until just now. If you have .po files for Quiz, please email them to me. Thanks!

Address at https://striderweb.com/feedback/

— Stephen Rider

No hacks are required — just set WP_PLUGIN_DIR and WP_PLUGIN_URL in each blog’s wp-config.php.

Doing that, you can nativly point all of the blogs to a single plugins directory.

Look into wp-includes/plugin.php, roughly line 337.

I think you want to manipulate the array at $wp_filter[$tag]

Virtual Multiblog for WordPress
https://striderweb.com/nerdaphernalia/features/virtual-multiblog/

This gives you _completely separate_ installs of WordPress, but runs them off of a single set of files.

Works over multiple domains or subdomains, and can use same or different databases.

Compatible with most plugins (WP Cache being the only exception I know of.)

This will really annoy AllahPundit. ??

Author might even include an option to exclude CSS altogether, so that site admins can put the CSS directly in their theme’s style.css. That avoids an additional HTTP request at page load. ??