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Tevya Washburn
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28th January 2012
Hi, I'm wondering if there's a way to make it so when somebody posts on a sub-site that the title and few so many words will be posted to the parent site, but rather than repost the entire post, just that short version, and the titles link to the original site's post. I'm aware of the plugin here that allows you to show recent global posts in a widget, but I'd really like to have them displayed on the home page as truncated posts. Anyone know of an easy way to do this? Thanks.
Hi, I'm wondering if there's a way to make it so when somebody posts on a sub-site that the title and few so many words will be posted to the parent site, but rather than repost the entire post, just that short version, and the titles link to the original site's post. I'm aware of the plugin here that allows you to show recent global posts in a widget, but I'd really like to have them displayed on the home page as truncated posts. Anyone know of an easy way to do this? Thanks.
K. Thanks. As I said in my original post, the Recent Global Posts Widget is closest to what I want to do, but rather than a widget, I'd like it to be the actual blog. So posts automatically show up, whenever a post is made anywhere on the multisite network, but rather than a full post, it's just a title and snippet of the actual post, and the title links to the original post on whichever sub-site it came from. Any ideas?
It basically does what I want, I just wish there was a plugin built for multisite where you could set it to automatically do all new blogs created... so you didn't have to enter the RSS feed each time and have it pull via RSS. It's all in the same database, it just needs to get it from there. Would be super handy. Came across a bunch of threads on WP.org where people were trying to do it.
I looked at the plugin here on WPMU, but based on the description, it didn't seem it had a good method for just listing posts, only the tag-cloud part. So either the one on WP.org doesn't do this either, and has a misleading description, or the one here needs to better explain that it does support just post listings.
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Support Chimp — 28th January 2012 #
Hey evya Washburn.
There are a few options here, depending on what you are looking for:
First of all, WordPress has a default widget which you can enter an RSS feed on and have it syndicate from any site or feed.
Then we have:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/post-indexer
This indexes posts from your network. Further down on that page you will then find further links to other plugins we offer which you may find of use:
Hope this helps :-)
Take care.
Member — 28th January 2012 #
K. Thanks. As I said in my original post, the Recent Global Posts Widget is closest to what I want to do, but rather than a widget, I'd like it to be the actual blog. So posts automatically show up, whenever a post is made anywhere on the multisite network, but rather than a full post, it's just a title and snippet of the actual post, and the title links to the original post on whichever sub-site it came from. Any ideas?
Member — 28th January 2012 #
After looking, I found this: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpematico/
It basically does what I want, I just wish there was a plugin built for multisite where you could set it to automatically do all new blogs created... so you didn't have to enter the RSS feed each time and have it pull via RSS. It's all in the same database, it just needs to get it from there. Would be super handy. Came across a bunch of threads on WP.org where people were trying to do it.
Support Chimp — 28th January 2012 #
Hey again. :-)
That looks similar to our AutoBlog:
premium.wpmudev.org/project/autoblog
Then you could use just one global feed:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/recent-global-posts-feed
For ideas of how to do this in your theme, you could take a look at our Network Theme:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/network-theme
Take care.
Member — 28th January 2012 #
Ah, now we're talking! I think I'll just use the network theme. I'd seen it before, but hadn't looked at what it does. I think it should work nicely.
Support Chimp — 28th January 2012 #
:-)
I use the network theme (slightly modified) on one of my sites, it has always worked well for me as well :-)
Take care.
Member — 3rd February 2012 #
I use Sitewide tags. It is exactly what you are wanting to do for your network.
Member — 4th February 2012 #
Thanks LPH, that also looks like what I'd like to do. Thanks for telling me about it. If anyone else is interested, the plugin is here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-sitewide-tags
Support Chimp — 4th February 2012 #
We do also offer site wide tags as well:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/global-site-tags
Our Post Indexer also lists a number other global type plugins for you:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/post-indexer
Take care.
Member — 4th February 2012 #
I looked at the plugin here on WPMU, but based on the description, it didn't seem it had a good method for just listing posts, only the tag-cloud part. So either the one on WP.org doesn't do this either, and has a misleading description, or the one here needs to better explain that it does support just post listings.
Support Chimp — 4th February 2012 #
Well according to the plugin page for the other one:
So it creates a new blog.
Where as ours indexes the content in another table and makes it available through a page on the main site.
They should both work well, it depends on how you want to achieve tags. :-)
Take care.
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