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Applying one theme to multiple blogs in a WordPress Multisite network

On August 2, 2010 · 1 Comment

Here’s a good bit of code I found in the WordPress MU forums and slightly altered for my own purposes – conditional tag based on blog ID. This will work for WordPress 3.0:

<!– SWITCH CODE BASED ON BLOG ID –>
<?php
$current_blog_id = $GLOBALS[’blog_id’];
if ($current_blog_id == 1) {
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How to create a WordPress 3.0 Multisite Network on a Windows server using sub-directories

On July 30, 2010 · 55 Comments

Updated: If you’ve used this tutorial to create subdomain blogs and are having trouble logging into those blogs, here’s a fix I found that worked.
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I recently spent many hours — most of it Googling and staring at error pages — trying to get the new WordPress Multisite functionality working on [...]

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Controlling the number of posts in multiple loop calls on a single WordPress page

On July 13, 2010 · Leave a Comment

That’s kind of a mouthful, eh?

With all the talk of organizations using WordPress as their website CMS, it’s pretty surprising some features aren’t yet part of the core code or at least surprising that some hacks aren’t more distributed. A very basic feature I know every news site would want is the ability to [...]

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WordPress Plugin: Post XML for Simpleviewer Gallery

On April 21, 2010 · 2 Comments

Update 4/4/2011: This plugin does not currently work with WordPress 3.0+ and, due to time constraints, I may have to deprecate it entirely.

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After writing my first WordPress plugin (which creates an XML file of your blog using every post’s title, excerpt, permalink and custom fields), I started getting several requests from people [...]

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