goldenstate

I am not using multisite. I have no plugins at all installed, as I have removed them. Still the same problem.

Any suggestions? Is no one else having this problem?

Thanks Ipstenu. I think maybe hardcoading is the best option.

I understand that the idea is that I am running a bunch of content-unrelated blogs, as that is the way WP-MU is designed, though this makes no sense to me. How useful could this default functionality be to anyone? It seems much more likely that end-users would want to have an actual SITE, with standardized categories, a global main menu, global sidebar widgets, and a standardized template, rather than a bunch of random blogs. I really don’t get it. Who would want that?

All I know is that, aside from everything else, WordPress has a great blogging interface.

Thanks for the helpful links, and for answering my numerous questions!

Best,
Scott

UPDATE ON THIS ISSUE

Dear Andrea,

Just to cover all bases, I went back AGAIN and tried the default WP template. THESE WIDGETS IN QUESTION ARE NOW SHOWING UP. Apparently after I tried some of your previous suggestions the widgets DID show up, but I was unable to see them because my template was the problem.

So that brings me to another issue. I paid quite a bit of money for the template I want, and all other types of widgets seem to work with it. Any idea why JUST these multisite widgets (and I mean ALL of them, and I mean JUST THIS TYPE) would not work in a particular template?

Thanks once again for your expertise in this matter. And if you have a moment, I would still like to hear what exactly is a MU-Plugins folder, because I don’t think I have one.

Best,
Scott

Hi Andrea,

Regarding the default post widget: I wasn’t expecting it to pull in posts from other blogs, I just put it on my site to test of ANY of my posts were being recognized. Kind of make sure I’m not going crazy, as none of the multisite widgets that I have installed are even SHOWING UP, as you’ve noticed.

I have installed various ones with no success. I can see them in the back end, I can move them around in the back end for my template, but not even the titles of the widgets show up when I refresh my site.

I’ve tried switching templates, and I’ve tried setting the widgets alternately between normal activate and network activate with (I don’t think) any difference. And I don’t see a MU-Pliguns folder at all…I figured that was a pre-WP 3.0 feature. BUT, the modules that I’ve installed don’t come with any instructions regarding what folders or what type of activate. Have a look for yourself:

I’m using this one:
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/multisite-latest-posts-widget/installation/

and here’s the Diamond on you recommend…no installation instructions at all:
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/diamond-multisite-widgets/

If these are supposed to be going into a special folder, I don’t know anything about this. I’ve just been installing these plugins through the normal backend plugin installation area.

Thanks again,
Scott

The URL of my main site is:

https://goldenstatescience.com

You’ll notice on this main site there’s a widget titled “Standard Post Widget” which is just the default post widget that I installed just to test if I could pull in any posts at all. It does work.

Here are a couple of subsites (I plan to have many more if I can ever get this working):

https://goldenstatescience.com/coachellagreen/
https://goldenstatescience.com/friends-of-the-pleistocene/

Thanks so much

HI Andrea, thanks for responding. I have checked that my blogs are public, and I just made another test post. Still nothing. I find this very very strange.