[wp-hackers] creating blogs across several installs (Nuno Morgadinho)

[Piyush Mishra]

there is a wprobot for adding data across multiple wp installs and from
other social sites na?

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Elizabeth Buckwalter <
elizabeth at slatetechpdx.com> wrote:

> > Message: 1
> > Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:57:00 +0200
> > From: Nuno Morgadinho <nuno.morgadinho at gmail.com>
> > Subject: [wp-hackers] creating blogs across several installs
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> > I have 5 WPMU installs (with different IP addresses and domains). When
> > the user signs-up and creates a blog I would like to additionally
> > create a blog in each of the WPMU installs. I thought about two
> > possible approaches for this:
> >
> > 1) write directly into the database (the installs all share the same
> > database server)
> > 2) make a http request to each MU that will then handle the request
> > and write into the db
> >
> > Would you rather go for 1 or 2? And is there some work done already in
> > this front of creating blogs across several installs?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > Nuno Morgadinho
> > http://www.morgadinho.org
> > http://twitter.com/morgadin
> >
>
>
>
> I'd go for a mix of 1 and 2)  I've made a (very very) custom plugin
> for a client that adds a blog with all the appropriate setting, so he
> doesn't have to the theme or pages, and can add the categories that
> already exist to the new blog.  It uses to core switch_to_blog
> function, which sets up all the tables and options, the kind of thing
> that doesn't need to be rewritten.  But this plugin is in one install
> and only deals with one install.
>
> Which brings me to step 2.  You'd have to then pass the data to the
> other install and tell it to run it's custom create a blog plugin.
> the simplest would be calling your plugin through http request.
>
> the first part of my plugin uses the standard code in the
> wpmu-edit.php starting at around line 129 (wpmu trunk
>
> http://xref.yoast.com/wpmu-trunk/nav.html?wp-admin/wpmu-edit.php.source.html#l129
> )
>
> Then I use switch_to_blog in wpmu-functions.php around line 1297
> (
> http://xref.yoast.com/wpmu-trunk/nav.html?wp-includes/wpmu-functions.php.source.html#l297
> )
> to add my custom settings like the theme which is as easy as
> update_option('current_theme', 'theme decscription');
> update_option('template', 'theme name'); update_option('stylesheet',
> 'theme name');
>
> There isn't an easy way to activate plugins if they have to create a
> database table unforunately, as simply inserting the activated plugins
> makes them active, but doesn't run their activation script.
>
> HTH
>
> Elizabeth Buckwalter
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Regards
Piyush Mishra