Nick West

Ah ya, mine just made it so it uses the single table with a hard coded prefix. It’s lame because my users don’t have access to change any embedly settings and all blogs share the same settings. It works for me because I don’t really want them to have that much control anyway, but I would imagine not everyone wants such a restriction.

Well, I can reassure you that you weren’t talking to yourself, but I think that’s all I can do.

I’ve still just been using my “solution” from above. Any solution that would require doing anything to every blog manually is out of the question, as my install is for a University with 50k students, faculty and staff, all of whom have access to create blogs.

Well, I dove into the embedly plugin code a bit and saw that it’s using a single table for all WordPress sites in a multi-site environment or not. The plugin was also appending the table prefix for a given site using $wpdb->prefix which it really should be doing. So while the initial site would have the prefix chosen by the user when they set up WordPress (wp_ by default) subsequent sites add a number to that (wp_2_ for the second and so on).

I fixed the problem by hard coding our table prefix into the plugin code and I disabled individual site admin access to the plugin administration (they don’t really need control over which providers anyway). It’s a fix that’ll work for us for now, but the real fix would be to make the plugin create other tables for other sites in the WP Multi-site environment so the provider list could vary for different sites. For us it’s not a big deal though, we don’t really want people to have access to that anyway. The only issues is that we’ll have to remember to readjust when the plugin updates if the problem persists.

I’ve run into this same problem. Without heavily modifying the plug-in code I don’t see a way to fix this. I submitted this as a bug on the maker’s website.

Here’s a link to the bug report if you want to up it or comment on it.
https://getsatisfaction.com/shareaholic/topics/sexybookmarks_wp3_0_x_multisite_overwritten_sprite_image