Aggregating Multisites

  • Resolved tjasko

    (@tjasko)


    13 years, 7 months ago

    I know this has been discussed before, but I am looking to aggregate content from one site onto the other. I would like to take all the content from one site and all the content with the other, and create one nice page out of it.

    I’ve heard of some plugins that’ll do this, but quite honestly, I’d prefer to do it in my custom theme than anything else.

    I saw some old posts on this topic (https://mu.www.ads-software.com/forums/topic/18271), but nothing seemed to work correctly, as pagination didn’t even work.

    Does anyone have some recommendations to some code on how to get this done?

    I’d appreciate any help!

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  • Thread Starter tjasko

    (@tjasko)

    Turning of the plugins did it… I also updated PHP and Apache because it needed to be updated…

    Yeah, the plugins need to be turned off. Maybe put it in red text in the plugin. It’s actually propagating right now and it’s going by much faster.

    at least you only have to populate exisiting post once. ??

    After that, every time you make a new post they will automagically get sent to the main site.

    Good to know that worked. I’ll make a note about adding a note to the populate page.

    Thread Starter tjasko

    (@tjasko)

    @andrea_r Ha, good point! It was quite the load on the server, but all of them transfered.

    @ron It worked out very well. One thing to mention, most of the posts it was importing did not add in the permalink custom field data correctly. For the permalink, it included my main domain and not subsite.maindomain.com.

    I was able to fix it by just running a SQL command in the database (replacing “https://maindomain” to “https://subsite.maindomain”).

    The propagation worked for a few posts, but the majority were wrong. If there’s any more information you’d want, I’d be more than happy to help.

    One thing to mention, most of the posts it was importing did not add in the permalink custom field data correctly. For the permalink, it included my main domain and not subsite.maindomain.com.

    That’s odd b/c it runs in the local context of the sub site. I’ll see if I can reproduce the issue.

    Thread Starter tjasko

    (@tjasko)

    It is odd. I propagated it again and it added in the permalink custom field this time… very weird.

    Yes, the permalink to the original post is stored in the post meta. The ones you saw may have been from the propagate in the released version which ran in the context of the main site.

    I’ve seen this issue of the posts not keeping the subdomain permalink prefix, so that a post subdomain.domain.com/examplepost appears on the main blog with a permalink domain.com/examplepost.
    I’m pretty sure it still exists at subdomain.domain.com/examplepost
    As tjasko noted I’ve seen this feature go away again: maybe its just the propogated posts?

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