gcarson

Yeah, I found an older version on another site. I’m guessing you need wordpress 3.0 with this version. Wish they would have said that before upgrading…

Well, here’s why i think I need to hack. Lets say I have 1,000 sites using 10 different themes (I’ll probably be using Atahualpa so I can set options per site), 100 sites per theme. I could set up each site on each theme , but then if I ever wanted to tweak the theme, I’d have to go in and change all 100 sites using that theme. But if all 100 sites using the same theme got their options from one database, I’d only have to make 1 change. Does that make sense?

Perfect, I’ll just need to hack the files so that when i install a new blog with theme A, that blog will look for theme A’s options. Seems simple enough… in theory ??

And to add, depending on how Atahualpa stores the options for each blog, I can just try to hack it to look at the template for the theme’s options instead of wherever its trying to look. That would allow me to only have to update the template, which would then update all the other pages.

Hmmm.. That might be an issue then ?? I sometimes use Atahualpa. I’ve read you can have individual options on there. So my thought was, have 5-10 standards already built. then, I can just update each individual’s page based on the Atahualpa options. I think I read that’s possible? I really just need to install and give it a shot ??

Andrea,

Sorry, I was typing my response when you chimed in. Thanks for the response.

I will check out those two plugins.

This does seem like the right option. Especially given that, if I did a site from scratch in dreamweaver, it would look horrible.

I think the last thing I need to figure out is how to make it so I can have say 10 different themes (actually the same theme just with different color combinations and maybe slightly different layouts). I’m sure its easy to have different themes but I’m more thinking about the update process if it actually becomes a hit. If i have 100+ on each theme, it would be a pain to go in and manually update all of them.

Joe,

thanks for the response. This will be a turnkey solution for the owners. I will do everything. I image having a template where I can enter the information and upload the site in less than 1 hour. They will not need to log in at all. Once the information is up, it might only change slightly over time.

One question I forgot to ask. Lets say I have say 10 different themes they can choose from. I have 10 owners on each theme. If i want to update the theme, I’m guessing I would have to update each site individually? I haven’t looked if there’s a plugin for that. One quick thought is that I could hack the database to have each site that has a certain theme pulling the options from my template.

on B. not sure if you figured it out, but I’m playing around with the plugin now and here’s what I did to get it to work with mailpress. I created a test page and put the mailpress shortcode in. Then, on the page, i just copied the generated code and put it into the html section. it worked find for me. hope that helps.

Yeah, I”m using mailpress. I’m not sure if its possible.

Gotcha, it does more than just redirect, but I needed it just to redirect. I would post what I did but I have Atahaulapa theme and it probably wouldn’t work for any other themes.

My next issue is, when a comment is posted, it goes to the single post page. How can I hack the files to make it redirect to the page its current on? So if its in the ABC category page, I want it to go back to the ABC category page, or tag page.

The second plugin is what I had installed. Its great. But having the random pots and the post plugin library installed was taking up alot of database time as well. So I thought writing my own little code would be much lighter. But putting the above code in a text widget with exec-php running is even worse. Was hoping my query was wrong and could be made simpler.

post a way to contact you and I’ll simplify it for you. Its really not that complex. I have zero coding experience but use this method all the time. I’m probably just not good at explaining it ??

If I could kiss you, I would! Works perfect. This code may come in handy for others like me who use WordPress as a CMS. Thank you so much!

OK this almost does everything I need. This is only going on my ‘tag’ archive page. So I only want to pull posts in say Tag1, then sort by my three categories. Trying to figure out how to add that to $myquery = new WP_Query(“cat=$catid”);

Wondering if anyone has figured this out? I’m doing sort of the same thing except with tags. Have all my ‘posts’ on my tag pages and looking to let people comment on the ‘tag’. Sort of like a review for that tag.