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Hi.
I am trying to work out the best way of ensuring that all new 'blogs' created are a duplicate of a template blog - without 'me' having to create them.
When someone signs up for a new blog, I need them to have the same starting point. I was expecting something like 'New Blog Template' to do the job but now I realise it is a manual set-up not for new blog creations.
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Hi Martin,
You should be able to set a default site template using New Blog Templates in your Network Admin page at Settings > Site Templates. There's a [Make Default] option. Setting that will entail that all newly created blogs will use that template.
You wouldn't have to create the site yourself as admin for it to use that template. It would automatically do it.
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Hi Martin, admins have the ability to choose from the templates upon creating a site in the Sites section, but the defaults still can be set for sub-sites. Works a treat, too! :)
So the new blog created by a new user (or existing admin) would have ALL the template blog's settings? Including things like thumbnail sizes, widgets and and any plugins that were in use on the 'template'?
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Yes, those settings should all save just fine. If a template works for you as admin, it will work just the same for a user creating a site with that template. :)
Actually. I don't see that the plugin actually recreates the posts from the default template when a non-admin registers and creates a site. It chooses the default template, but I thought (from what DavidM says above) it would copy everything.
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Hi Martin,
You should be able to set a default site template using New Blog Templates in your Network Admin page at Settings > Site Templates. There's a [Make Default] option. Setting that will entail that all newly created blogs will use that template.
You wouldn't have to create the site yourself as admin for it to use that template. It would automatically do it.
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Thanks David. I got the impression from the plugin page for 'New Blog Templates' that it only applied when an existing admin created a new blog.
Martin
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Hi Martin, admins have the ability to choose from the templates upon creating a site in the Sites section, but the defaults still can be set for sub-sites. Works a treat, too! :)
Cheers,
David
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So the new blog created by a new user (or existing admin) would have ALL the template blog's settings? Including things like thumbnail sizes, widgets and and any plugins that were in use on the 'template'?
Martin
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Yes, those settings should all save just fine. If a template works for you as admin, it will work just the same for a user creating a site with that template. :)
Cheers,
David
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Actually. I don't see that the plugin actually recreates the posts from the default template when a non-admin registers and creates a site. It chooses the default template, but I thought (from what DavidM says above) it would copy everything.
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