Bowromir, if you are not technically involved...a better method may be to just have it as a plugin and give instructions on how to activate that plugin.

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Mikee17 are you willing to share this code with me? I'm setting up a (non profit) wpmu powered site and I would like to make it easier for new members to get started, so I would like to add some default pages/widgets as well.. I'm no programmer whatsoever but if with some minor instructions I might be able to get it working for my site..

Please let me know :)
Bowe

Thanks Andrew, that solved the issue, was using unserialize at the wrong line.

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Hiya,

You cannot edit a serialized string. You'll need to unserialize it, and edit the array.

Thanks,
Andrew

Hi,

Ref: WPMU Ver.: 2.8.4

We are working on some custom functions that adds required pages, plugins, widgets automatically apart from the default stuff when a new blog is created.

Successfully,
1. Added additional posts/pages as required.
2. Added some code to have plugins to be active by default using >> update_blog_option($blogID, 'active_plugins', $default_plugins);
* $default_plugins is an array of plugins path.
3. Added code to activate some sidebar widgets
update_blog_option($blogID, 'sidebars_widgets', unserialize('a:4:{.....;i:3;}')); &
update_blog_option($blogID, 'widget_name', unserialize('a:7:{s:5:"....";}'));
All the above works well.

The issue is,
when for the 3rd above if we want to add a dynamic value to the string inside the "unserialize" fn()...say for eg:
$blogkeyword = "baseball";
unserialize('.....s:8:"keywords";s:6:"'.$blogkeyword.'";s:9:......;}';) does NOT work....it does not get updated to the database.
It works well if the above is like:
unserialize('.....s:8:"keywords";s:6:"baseball";s:9:......;}';)

Am I missing anything or doing anything wrong? Kindly advice....

Thanks & Regards