wordpress-mu

wordpress-mu: other options apart buddypress to build a good blog social network home page etc…?

Hi, I want to mount a social network of blogs and I am using Wordpress-mu, I need to have a home page to resume all the activity / members / comments, and add featured blogs. I have considered buddypress but I am not very satisfied, because it has more things than what I want. Plz, can you give me names / urls of free plugins for wordp...

How to allow self-registration to join a specific Wordpress MU blog.

Hi, I have a Wordpress MU instance installed. I allow self-registration, and self-creation of blogs. I have a user who has created a blog for a Chemistry class. He wants his 100 students to be able to self-register and become authors on this blog. By default, when you follow the Wordpress MU register link, you are signing up for a ...

User registration/login external to Wordpress MU

Can anyone point me in the right direction with regards to registering a new user in WordPress (MU specifically) from outside of wordpress? I'd also like to have the user log in/out from my own back-end code if there's a way to manipulate WordPress's codebase to do so. ...

Wordpress-mu subdomain

I installed wordpress-mu on a Windows machine and set it up so that i can have addresses like myblog1.blog.ph. I have configured the DNS settings for such. blog.ph works fine, but the sub-blogs like myblog.blog.ph show the following screen: http://yfrog.com/0jerrvxj So what do I do now? ...

Function name conflict when including a PHP file in a WordPress Theme.

I am a PHP novice, so bear with me if any of my terminology is incorrect. I have a small PHP file (page_class.php) that defines some functions and I include this file in the header.php of my theme: <?php include("page_class.php"); ?> And these are the contents of page_class.php: <?php function curPageURL() { $pageURL = 'http'; if ...

WordPress MU: Login from main page but not individual blogs

I recently upgraded to WPMU 2.8.6 and ever since, my users can't log in on their individual blogs, but they can log in from the main page. My site is at blogs.mtwp.net (we're a school district). So if a user goes to blogs.mtwp.net/BLOGNAME/wp-login.php, their password is rejected. If they go toblogs.mtwp.net/wp-login.php, they can log ...

WordPressMU - get blog list, alphabetically sorted by blogname

In WordPress MU, I've tried writing my own query for this but can't seem to get all of the joins I really need. The result set I'm looking for would be something like: blog_id blog name blog path owner first name owner last name and return it all alphabetically, by blog name. The trouble I'm having is that the first and last name of t...

IIS Host Headers using PHP

I'd like to add Host Headers to an IIS from PHP. Is there a way to access the metabase from PHP or do I have to write a .NET command line tool and then invoke it from PHP? Here's the background for the question. I have a Wordpress MU installation on Windows 2003/IIS6. The only way the setup will support subdomains (blog.mainsite.com) is...

wordpress mu theme per-user options

Is it possible to add an options screen to a Wordpress MU theme (options being saved for each user, so blogwide, not sitewide) ? I'm used to program wordpress themes, but i'm a bit puzzled as to how make customization happen in a multi-user environment... ...

Multi Vendor in WordPress

Is there any multi vendor wordpress plugin available? ...

WordPress MU for hosting subdirectories

Hi there, I'm trying to consolidate two WordPress installations into one WP MU install. Basically, I have example.com/blog and example.com/microsite/blog I'd like the microsite's blog and the /blog to both be hosted by WordPress MU. Does sunrise help me accomplish this? If not, how would I do this? Thanks! ...

wordpress mu image speed problem

I have an mu install with the typical blogs.dir folder storing files for each blog. When loading these images however they take forever to appear, but they eventually do. It seems that wpmu uses php to serve each image which is ludicrous. When using images from the same domain but in a root folder, the images are displayed quickly. Is th...

How should I create a global options in wordpress?

I am using WPMU but there are some options that the administrator should set and should take affect for every user of the website. Does wordpress have a place to store these global options? Can anyone point me to sample code? Thanks! ...

Wordpress 3.0 documentation

Hi guys, quick question here. Is there any Wordpress 3.0 documentation available? Some kind of list with all the new functions and variables? All I can find are blog posts talking about the new features coming. Thanks! ...

Geolocation with wordpressmu/buddypress

I am just looking for the best solution for the following problem. I have installed wordpress mu, and I wanted to create child blogs, for different areas in the world. But I want it so 1 domain can switch them instantly using the users ip address. IS there a extention of wordpressmu or buddypress or do I need something on the server say...

In Wordpress MU, how to allow users to register for new blogs with their existing account?

In Wordpress MU, how can I allow users to register for new blogs with their existing account? Right now, it seems that the site admin has to manually add them at the admin page. That would be fine with me except that the admin for the entire site will have to manually add users to blogs one by one. With hundreds of blogs and hundreds of ...

Setup Wordpress MU within an existing Wordpress MU

Hello, I have a current Wordpress MU site and I want to build a staging Wordpress MU within it. I have the staging setup on www.domain.com/staging. The problem is when I access the url above, It wont go to it. I have already played around with the .htaccess but don't still no success. Any suggestions would be a great help. Thanks! ...

[Wordpress MU] Changing the uploads directory

Hi, I've looked everywhere and while there is solutions to change the uploads directory for all the blogs by changing this line in the wp-settings.php: define( "BLOGUPLOADDIR", WP_CONTENT_DIR . "/blogs.dir/{$wpdb->blogid}/files/" ); I can't find a way of changing the directory for each blog individually, something like: define( "BLO...

Using Wordpress as a CMS to a site AND blog (two completely different layouts for each). Duplicate installation?

I'm going to create a website using Wordpress static pages feature. It's going to have a menu for all the created pages. A blog is going to be created as well. This blog has a completely different layout/menu from the main site, but within the same domain: "http://www.domain.com" is the website url, and "http://www.domain.com/blog/" is ...

how do I programically create a category in WordPress if it doesn't exist already?

Using a built in wordpress function (if available) how do I create a new category in wordpress if it doesn't exist. I'm using wp_insert_post to insert posts, but I want to be able to do custom categories. Thanks -Brad ...