Funny how easy it can be to over look the simplest things. I found page two of this forum after I figured out how to use @godlike ‘s posted code which is what I’m about to share.
I did look into both Sitewide, and List-recent-sites but not in great depth. Both plugins caused server errors. List-recent-sites more specifically caused me to not have access to only my plugins page in the dashboard immediately after installing the plugin. I’m going to look into these issues more as I’d like to use the plugin for future projects. For the time being, I found it easier to work with @godlike ‘s code.
Original Code Posted by @godlike [Pastebin] [WP_Forum]
Reference Site [kandar.info]
How to Setup Code
- Simply paste the code as is into your functions.php file.
How to Use Code [@Phoat, @-interested-parties]
Very Basic Example
Use the following in any custom-template.php, statichhome.php, or index.php where you want the list of multisite posts to appear:
$latest_posts = wpmu_latest_post();
foreach($latest_posts as $latest_post){
echo '<p>' . $latest_post->post_title . '</p>';
}
Return:
- Post ID = $latest_post->ID
- GUID = $latest_post->post_url
- Post Title = $latest_post->post_title
- Post Date = $latest_post->post_date
- Post Time = $latest_post->post_time
- Post Content = $latest_post->post_content
- Comment Count = $latest_post->comment_count
- Author Blog Url = $latest_post->author_blog_url
- Author Url = $latest_post->author_url
- Author Email = $latest_post->author_email
- Author Name = $latest_post->author_name
Other Notes:
This is a farily configurable script. I was able to add the excerpt to the array and create an excerpt Return ( $latest_post->post_excerpt ) without any problems . Further, I was able to setup my custom admin page on the Mainsite to control the number of posts provided on the news feed. This script by default only retrieves and sorts the recent posts from the multisites. However, a few lines of code allowed me to add the mainsite as part of that post retrieval. Lastly, I was able to limit the script to only 5 specific multisites out of the 100+.
This script, when styled correctly, can look identical to what a basic wordpress loop produces for individual sites (except it does it for all of your sites of course). I’d really like to see wordpress develop functions which can filter a wordpress loop (much like “if(in_category(‘cat-slug-name’))” ) and auto retrieve all posts from a multisite installation instead of needing a plugin. But, atleast in the meantime, this works very darn close.
Lastly, this script does not call for the Categories nor Tags associated with the multisite posts. It also doesn’t call for any Featured Images. This actually looks to be a little more involved to setup with the current code.
