Sub-blogs use the main blog widgets

So you’re using a plugin shortcode in a text widget? and that works ?

I use duplicate themes on my site. The main blog is the original and the sub domains is an altered copy. I do this so that I can take things from my main blog and code them into my sub domains. Right now I use it effectively for the search box but probably would require additional coding for some thing that changes often.

Not sure if it’s right for you but I use cets_blog_defaults plug-in. It allows you to set defaults for new blogs including themes and plug-ins

Thanks, I figured it out! had to change some things in the plugin..
get_option() to get_blog_option() to get the correct url’s.

However now that I override sidebars_widgets with

add_filter( 'pre_option_' . 'sidebars_widgets', 'override_sidebars_widgets' );

I can’t use any widgets on the blogs independently.

Thought the solution was to use pre_update_option but that didn’t work.

Is it possible to just add the sidebar_widgets without completely overriding?

Your original post:

they will exactly reflect the widgets on the main one.

There are limits to what you can do with a “switch_to_blog” and “pre_option_” filters. These methods break down when there is more complex dependencies on other options or db queries.

And now:

Is it possible to just add the sidebar_widgets without completely overriding?

It would be simplest to hardcode the advertising widget/functions in each theme’s sidebar outside the dynamic sidebar code: <?php if(function_exists( 'wp_bannerize' )) wp_bannerize(); ?> While also modifying the plugin to only get_blog_options from blog 1 and adding the admin menu to blog 1.

Hi, yeah I guess that would be the easiest. It doesn’t work though. The function doesn’t exist. I activate the plugin on blog 1, and switch to blog 1 then try to run the function.