Aggregating specific sites

  • Resolved Macfionn

    (@macfionn)


    12 years, 7 months ago

    A little over a 3 years ago, i asked this question and was told it wasn’t possible (By whom, I do not recall.)

    So a year later, I asked again… and was again told no.. ??

    So.. two MORE years later..and here I am! ??

    I would like to use WordPress (yea me!) for my towns community site. I want ALL of my members to have their own blogs (personal blogs) but would like to have a few ‘official’ blogs as well (ex. City Water dept., local hospital, local library, etc) and for these official blogs, have designated people that can can write/edit its contents.

    Now the key is, i would like to be able to aggregate these ‘official’ blogs, and place the newest ‘news’ of these ‘official’ blogs on the MAIN FRONT page of my site; kind of a ‘whats new in our community’ type of thing.
    So if I wanted to aggregate 4 ‘official’ blogs I could have the very latest entry of each of those four blogs on my home page with a ‘more’ link going to that specific blog.

    Does any of this make sense? I tried the best I could to explain my need but can might can go into greater detail if needed.

    Essentially, Im just wondering if this can be done via an official release of mu wordpress, or even with a third party plugin.

    Im not seeking an RSS feed solution, as I would like to be able to include any images and markup if they exist in the blogs im aggregating.

    I have found several plugins that appear to aggregate ALL the blogs (including common user blogs). I have to be specific about which blogs I pull from.
    Would anyone have any idea please if this is yet possible, and maybe point me in the right direction?

    Thank you for reading!

    Mac

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  • “I want ALL of my members to have their own blogs (personal blogs) but would like to have a few ‘official’ blogs as well (ex. City Water dept., local hospital, local library, etc) and for these official blogs, have designated people that can can write/edit its contents.”

    How about:

    https://buddypress.org/
    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/bp-groupblog/

    ———- x ———– x ————

    “So if I wanted to aggregate 4 ‘official’ blogs I could have the very latest entry of each of those four blogs on my home page with a ‘more’ link going to that specific blog.”

    I think you can hire a WordPress plugin programmer for this feature. Probably can be developed in a day or two, max 3 days.

    ———- x ———– x ————

    “Essentially, Im just wondering if this can be done via an official release of mu wordpress”

    Buddypress doesn’t require MUWP anymore.

    Thread Starter Macfionn

    (@macfionn)

    Thank you much for the reply. ??

    Buddypress is a route i am going for the community page, but not for the purpose i’m speaking of. When I say ‘blog’, I am of course meaning their own site in a multi-site install.

    I want specific sites aggregated, but don’t want these sites to be ham-tied into using a buddypress supported template only. Yes, there are some nice ones out there, but I want to allow the users to buy what ever theme they want and use it. Make sense?

    Im really surprised there isn’t an obvious plugin already around.
    One that can pull specific blog ID’s, and page/post ID’s from the same database and then simply post it it as a widget on the parent page.

    It looks like https://premium.wpmudev.org/project/site-categories/ has such a plugin, but would hate to pay $70 dollars for a months access when all i want is one plugin, only to have it “supported” for that month only. Any bug fixes or updates, I would have to pay another month for.

    If anybody knows of another source (free or paid, it doesn’t matter as long as its supported with updates afterwords), please let me know!

    And David? Thanks again for trying to help me. ??

    Mac

    Thread Starter Macfionn

    (@macfionn)

    Oh… regarding “I think you can hire a WordPress plugin programmer for this feature. Probably can be developed in a day or two, max 3 days.”..

    If I were anyone different than a common everyday blue collar working man, Then I could probably afford to hire a programmer for 2-3 days.

    BUT! If such a developer is reading this, then perhaps they could see this as an opportunity to make some profit selling this on codecanyon, or the like, and make vastly more then they would just hiring themselves out for a couple of days to make this for one person.

    Just throwing that out there… ??

    Hope you can find somebody that can pull this off soon, good luck!

    Thread Starter Macfionn

    (@macfionn)

    Thanks David. ??
    And.. and for anyone interested, forget that link to https://premium.wpmudev.org/project/site-categories/ . I just went and studies it deeper. It does nothing more than provide a link and profile pic. Was talking about actually bringing down some of the text as well.

    Anyways.. yeah. Thanks again. ??

    Thread Starter Macfionn

    (@macfionn)

    Hold the phone!
    I may have stumbled across something exactly as I described!
    Can’t test it until tmw, but test it I will!

    Here is what I found in case others seek it too:

    https://en.8elite.com/network-latest-posts/
    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/network-latest-posts/

    Made by L’Elite.

    Thread Starter Macfionn

    (@macfionn)

    Based on the above links and plugin by L’Elite, this old conundrum has been put to bed! Woohoo!! ??

    Wow, glad you’ve achieved your goal finally! Thanks for sharing the results.

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