Sitewide Tags 0.4
Posted by Ron in Andrea & I use Donncha‘s Sitewide Tags Blog for global content aggregation on any client installs that use sitewide content. Over the last year I’ve made at least a dozen custom versions of it. Most of those do some combination of the features listed below. This week we tested and released a new version. The new features of the Sitewide Tags plugin are:
- Added option to include pages in tags blog. (For site wide search functionality.)
- Added option to include non search engine indexed blogs if tags blog not indexed. (For site wide search functionality.)
- Added option for post meta to be copied with post. (Main use we have seen for this is including post thumbnails in the tags blog.)
Thanks to kgraeme, dsader & others for testing and feedback. I would also like to thank Donncha for the opportunity to collaborate with him on this plugin. If you’ve used SWT on your site and it’s done the trick for you, consider dropping by and giving Donncha a donation.
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I understand what a daunting task this would be, but any chance to get a script to rebuild the search index? Would be awesome to take existing blog posts and import them into the new search blog.
I am planning an addon pack for SWT. It will probably be Jan/Feb before I get it ready for release. The script is one of the things Andrea mentioned. I won’t be able to look at it for a couple weeks, but if I do get to it, I’ll drop you a line about testing it for me.
Cool. I may hack together something to get by until then. I have an immediate want/need for this for a client. I’ll let you in on what I come up with of course, so that you may have your way with it.
You would mostly be writing the script to run through the blogs. With each blog run a query and retrieve all of the published post/page data and called sitewide_tags_post( $post->ID, $post ) for each post.
Hey gang,
Please keep me updated as well.
There is also an interim solution using WPMU Power Tools posted here:
http://seoserpent.com/wpmu-sitewide-tags-2010
Fine work Ron, this is a crucial plugin for us, and your upgrades are very, very welcome. You rule.
Thanks
It’s been on my list for a while and I’m glad I finally had the time to get it out there.
Also meant to ask, does this have support for custom taxonomy types? I haven’t really checked out the code that much to be honest, but this could be really super powerful if it did.
Yes, you should be able to do something with custom taxonomies. You’ll have to look at the plugin code for specific applications though.
Over at http://www.storytellersunplugged.com we use the plugin (I believe I upgraded it too) but the one thing that still eludes me is the comments. For some reason, despite all settings, when the post is copied over into the main blog, the comments and pingbacks have to be manually turned back on. I also had to remove the link back to the original post to allow comments on the main blog.
Great work!
Will this work with timthumb and it’s problems with creating thumbnails on sub blogs. So posting on a sub blog and then pulling it across into the main blog automatically including the thumbnail?
thanks
Is there a way to include the blog title with the corresponding post on the main blog?
Hi there, I’m new to wp-mu and I’ve got some trouble trying to switch my wordpress site to a wp-mu installation.
In particular I’d like to post in the footer of the home blog some boxes with random post from other mu blogs… one box for each blog (3 blogs total=3 boxes)
Initially I’ve think to do it with some rss plugin reading the feed of each blog… but looking through the net I found this interesting plugin wich spread the tags trough the all wp-mu installation…
So any idea that can help me?
thanks in advance for any tip,
and of course for all the great job you guys are doing here!
Bye
Carlo
I just fell in love with you 3 all over again!! This plugin is absolutely perfect. Why the heck don’t they put it into wpmu as a default option?
I’ve been using the premium plugin post-indexer and fighting it for a week. Have had to tweak it all over the place and it’s just the biggest pain the butt to get it to work with other plugins.
This is absolutely awesome!!!!! It will cut the design process down from months to weeks.
I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!!
Hi,
maybe a stupid question, but:
I installed your plugin, let the plugin create a tag blog.
In that tagblg, I embedded the Tgas cloud in the sidebar.
By Theory, all the tgas from my other blogs shall show up there, or?
Lars
Just wondering if you have tried this plugin with WP 3.0? I have not been able to get it to work and just wondered if you had it working or whether an update is going to be needed.
Do you know if there are any plans to have site wide ‘custom post types’ added to this plugin? Would it be tricky to add this feature to the existing plugin?
It already has support for custom post types and only requires adding a couple lines of code to the custom post type plugin.
Thanks! I am pretty new to PHP, so not very good at reading plugin files.
However, I think I have found the correct lines of code, as it is now working.
hi..
i try to install the wpmu sitewide-tags plugin in my site. after configure the plugins im so happy because the plugin is working all the post in my sub derictory blogs are automaticaly display on the main blogs .. but the problem is when i browse one of the sub derictory blogs it display this error “Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 90 seconds exceeded in /home/manjaro/public_html/blogsmu/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 302″, then i try to disable the plugin and the errow was gone..
someone help me on how to fixed that issue? i try already changed the maximum execution time but it’s not working..
thanks in advance
Are you saying that the only plugin you disabled was sitewide tags and doing that eliminated the 90 second execution time problem?
If that’s the case then you probably have another plugin that is conflicting with it.
Hi Ron,
I use this excellent plugin on our site.
Is there a way exclude posts by category from being aggregated in the homepage?
In hope.
I have Sitewide Tags up and running on my site. I was wondering how I could redirect ALL of the links to tag pages that appear on a sub-blog to the clone tage page that appears on the main blog.
In essence here is what I want to happen:
301 redirect http://watches.mydomain.com/tag/gold-watches/
…to…
http://mydomain.com/tag/gold-watches/
I need it to happen automatically as well without going into the backend of the “watches” sub-blog and creating a redirect manually from that sub-blog to the main blog.
Any help is appreciated.
You can do that with a rewrite rule. Try posting in the WordPress support forums for specifics.
Hi Ron,
I’m all over the place here, fighting with the plugins.
Do you think there is anyway to make the plugin post on a different page (not the homepage) on the same mainsite so I can pull the posts individually from there?
Could you give me some directions of where to look in the code for making something like that?
Lots of thanks in advance!
I was using this plugin on my old 2.9 setup and it worked perfectly.
I am now building a new 3.0 multisite setup which uses custom post types ‘video, audio’ for every single site on the network. Logic is built into all the themes.
What I am after:
Each site has their own ‘video’ post type archives and single view templates. Video contains a number of custom fields/metaboxes and taxonomies.
I want to have every single ‘video & audio’ post from every single blog indexed onto the primary site. So a custom video from site1.example.com would show up on the archive and single view of example.com
Is this plugin able to do this, or is there a better solution?
–basically building a mini ‘ning’ type of site, with a main index site.
thanks for your time
Hi Ron.
Is there a way to change the plugin to save the posts to the ‘tag blog’ ( I actualy post it to my main blog) as a draft instead of a published post. I know it will involve modifying the code a bit….
I need a nudge in the right direction…..
Hello,
I also would like to know how to gather post from all the network blogs, and display them into the main one! WordPress 3.0….
Any idea?!
That’s what the Sitewide Tags plugin is for.