livephoenix

raskull, thanks for the link. Looks like it would suffice. However at the moment, I think I am going to have less than 10 sites in my network, so am thinking of going the ‘click’ route ??

For anyone reading through this question:

I found 2 plugins (suggested by Andrea) that might do the trick.
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/multipost-mu/
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/threewp-broadcast/

I just installed multisite recently. Had a very smooth install and nothing like you said happened to me. And I followed the instructions from the codex too. I don’t think it would be a bug, it should be something that you did wrong while installing WP3.

I followed the instructions from here:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Create_A_Network

@roy, I think I wasn’t clear. I can see the installed themes across all subsites, just that I wanted to enable the mainsite theme to be the default theme for all the subsites. Andrea figured it out ??

Andrea, mon ami! Yep, that is what I was trying to do. I have been reading the forums here and found that you suggest the “blog defaults” plugin. I have just installed that and am finding my way around it. Or more precisely, I’ve set the default theme and all and am now trying to find a way to set a “first few default pages” using it, if that is possible.

Roy,

Let me see if I understood it right. On my dashboard, I go to Plugins and see a list of them. For Akismet, I can see an option to “Network Activate”. However for All in One SEO or XML Sitemap Feed, I don’t see that option.

UPDATE: I went to the ‘backend’ of one of my subsites and into ‘Plugins’ from there, and surprisingly I can see the ‘Network Activate’ option for all plugins there. Odd (because I’d expect an option like that in my main site dashboard too not subsite alone), but still looks like that will do the job. ?? Thanks!

Plus, I cannot see ‘Network Activate’ anywhere in themes. As in, I did enable them to be visible to all subsites in my SuperAdmin section. But my understanding is that I have to go to each subsite separately and activate the theme according to what you say. Is that right?

Andrea,

Thank you! You just made my day! ??

Ok, I guess one of you should be able to help me out.

I installed WP3 using the cPanel on the root directory (chose mysite.com as the directory for it to be installed). It’s a new site, so I enable multisite immediately (lest it disallow the subdirectory option and I’d be forced to force it :)). I am in the testing phase right now.

Now when I FTP to see my directory structure, I can see the following:
–/
..|-mail
..|-public-ftp
..|-www
..|-public-html
……..|-wp-content
……..|-wp-admin
……..|-wp-includes

However, when I create a post, it goes into:
mysite.com/blog/post-name

I understood “/blog” could have been automatically added in order to avoid multisite conflicts or is it there because of something that I did wrong (like the above discussed stuff)?

I’d want not to have that ‘/blog’ there in my URL for the main site (or subsites too which would be like mysite.com/subsitename).

If there was something that I needed to do during the install, then I am ready to do it again, I just need to know how.

Or else, if there is something that I can do now, I’d be happy to know that too.

Thanks

Yes, that’s right. I looked at the plugin. It might definitely help me a bit. But frequently I’d add a page to my main site that would be applicable to my child sites as well, so I’d have liked the ability to choose which child sites it propagates to on a child-by-child basis. I don’t know if many perceive such a need enough for it to be a popular plugin though ??

Thanks Andrea. So I guess till some plugin comes around to handle the situation, I’ll do just that!

Thanks everyone here!

tjsherrill, I am looking for a very similar solution.

My site is site.com and I’d want site.com/uk to have many pages inheriting from site.com (because they both basically contain the same content.)

Andrea_r, thanks for the link. But it seems that kinda handles the part where in a new blog should start with some default set of pages/posts.

However, when I add a new page to site.com (my main site), is there a way, I can make it appear under site.com/uk automatically? I guess that is the scenario for which you said we are entering custom area. Does that mean that I’d have to post the page separately under each site?

Has anybody ever had a similar situation?