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Hi Ben, its me again (we worked through the post merger MU problem in which you started a new dev version). I just noticed this issue with IE (its fine in FireFox and Chrome) on my MU 3.0 site as well. I’m using your dev version as of late July 5. Have there been some changes since July 5 to address this issue?

Ahhh, that’s it. I have my site hidden from search engines during the development phase. Thank you for clarifying. And again, I really appreciate your diligence on this.

Ah, the thanks belong to you. BTW, did the screenshot of my menu look right to you or is it missing something? It seems like I should be able to select blogs to filter but I am unable to do anything with it. Its not a real big deal since widget menu takes care of my most important needs but it would nice be able to use the admin menu too.

Thank you again for your diligence. I love your plugin and it is the key feature of my website. I down/uploaded the new dev version of your plugin and it seems to be working. I now get the avatars in my side bar on both the main and sub blog levels. Thank you!

With respect to AAL admin menu, By saying it “lacked funtionality” I meant that there seems to nothing on the menu that I can effect, alter, modify, or set in motion. Additionally, it only lists one blog regardless of how many blogs it is enabled on. The format leads me to believe that a button or field is not displaying on my WP install. Below is a link to a screenshot (hopefully it worked)of the AAL admin menu on my Super Admin.

SCREENSHOT

Thank you again for great work and promptness. You rescued my site at a critical time.

Thank you for your responsiveness. I installed the dvlpr version and now it is doing the opposite, i.e., displaying author avatarss only at the main level. I sent a message to Mr. Rennick explaining the issue and he responded: “He misunderstood. He wrote it like get_blog_prefix($x) would return either wp_capabilities or wp_X_capabilities (where X is blog id). get_blog_prefix($x) returns wp_ or wp_X_ (where X is blog id).

Edited: that applies to the first changeset. He fixed that in the second one.

One thing I noticed is before he made the changes that function was returning ‘wp_1_capabilities’ & now it’s returning wp_1_capabilities (no quotes).”

Also, the option menu at Super Admin>Author Avatars List appears incomplete in my installation. It lists only the main blog and lacks functionality. Thank you again for your assistance.

I received this further input from Mr. Rennick:

“The difference between an upgraded MU and a 3.0 network is that for the main blog the blog table prefix in the upgraded MU is wp_1_ and in a 3.0 network it is wp_.

In the usermeta table the user capability key is {blog table prefix}capabilities so in MU it’s wp_1_capabilities and wp_capabilities in a new network (for the main blog).

What the author needs to do is use $wpdb->get_blog_prefix(blog_id) if it’s 3.0 to get the correct prefix instead of using $wpdb->prefix or $wpdb->base_prefix.

The get_blog_prefix() function was added to MU 2.8.5.2 in anticipation of the merge.”

BTW, the sitewide settings control panel (/wp-admin/ms-admin.php?page=wpmu_author_avatars) does not to be rendering correctly. Nothing works on the panel and it appears incomplete.

Thank you for responding. This is the key plugin for my site so I really appreciate your response. My site is an MU site that was upgraded to 3.0. I checked all the things you mention. I spoke (via forum) to Ron Rennick, one of the core developers at WP, and he said: “I looked at the changelog of the last 3 months for the plugin and it looks to me like it was coded to work with WP 3.0 -> WP network. The only place where an upgraded MU install and a 3.0 Network are handled differently is the main blog/site.” It appears that is the cause. Do you have fix so that it will work at the main level of an upgraded MU site? If not, maybe the older version of your plugin will work on my site – do have a copy of the previous version?

Hammadhassan: Thx for the tip. I look forward to trying it.

Update, I brought back my site by deleting the plugin via cPanel. So am I to conclude that this plugin does not work with wordpress mu?

Shauno, thanks for the solution but I have the same problem as Ka81 above (widget). My theme is Atahualpa. Any thoughts?