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.
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!!!!!!!!!