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Upgrades with multiple databases have always been more work and many people running multiple databases typically did not upgrade until the .1 release of whatever version of MU. When I upgraded Homeschool Journal to MU 2.7.1, it was two weeks before I had found and repaired all of the database issues (via several plugins). I decided I wasn’t going to go through that again.

With the number of blogs at WordPress.com, Automattic must be using a database plugin that supports WordPress MU better. So, over a couple of weekends, I tweaked HyperDB to use the same MD5 hash based sharding structure that we were using.

I released SharDB (Download) last week as a beta release intended for larger WordPress MU installs using an existing 1-3 character MD5 hash (by blog id) based multi-database sharding structure. (Other structures will be added in early 2010.) The alpha testing of SharDB was carried out this fall with the help of a few people who I knew were using the same multi-database that we were. SharDB has been powering live sites since early October.

SharDB has been tested with over 50 plugins including BuddyPress 1.1 through 1.1.3, domain mapping (both Donncha’s and my version) and my multi-site plugin. I have not found any issues with any of the tested plugins. It should support any plugin that accesses data via the $wpdb object. It has been used to upgrade live sites from 2.7.1 through to 2.8.6 and I’ve upgraded a test site to the WordPress MU 2.9 release candidate tagged 2009/12/21. (Note: I used the plugin in this post to create the commentmeta tables before updating MU from 2.8.6 to 2.9RC.)

One of the features that I really like about SharDB is that I don’t need to edit the database config when adding plugins (a feature inherited from HyperDB). Also, I haven’t had issues with plugins failing to create tables. As an added bonus, I added a handy column to the site admin blog screen so that you can see which database a blog’s tables are in.

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• it now goes in the plugins folder & activates sitewide. The only users who have access to the plugin are site admins.
• it is now MU site aware and users are added to the dashboard blog if the WPMU site has one, otherwise they are added to the main blog of the site.
• there is an option to add the users to the current blog instead of the dashboard/main blog of the site.
• users are added at the default user level set in the site options.
• I tested it with WPMU Default User Role plugin and it worked like a charm.

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I gotta say, while Rafe did all the work, it sure was fun to sit down and brainstorm with him about this. Definitely not a boring guy.

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With the default user role plugin, you can specify additional blogs to add new users to and specify a role for the user for each blog when the new user is created. I gave it a test earlier in the week and it works like a charm.

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To get the plugin options to save, I followed the process I outlined in Writing Plugins (for WP & WPMU). The other two minor changes that I made were:

• A minor fix with post scheduling – if the digest runs after the publish time in the settings, the post status is publish. If it runs before the publish time, the status is future.
• Text field options from the settings page are sanitized before saving.

To sanitize the options I added these lines of code to the plugin:


function ws_filter_options( $setting ) {
return wp_specialchars( $setting );
}
foreach( array( 'ws_td_username', 'ws_td_title', 'ws_td_post_tags', 'ws_td_pub_time' ) as $opt ) {
add_filter( 'pre_update_option_' . $opt, 'ws_filter_options' );
}


The thing to bear in mind with the options screens is the options are automatically saved to the options table. If you want to process the option in some way before saving it to the options table, use the pre_update_option_ + option_name filter. This filter hooks the process during the update_option process prior to the option being saved in the object cache or options table.

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• 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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Triple J wrote a quick and dirty plugin for it. I revised it a bit today. Notes on usage are at the top of the file. Once the plugin has created to tables you can remove the file. JJJ add commentmeta table (125)

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