I'm building a small portal which has a main page and 15 separate blogs. MU is perfect for this and works great. The main blog will consist of small boxes with a short preview of text. I would like to pull beginning excerpt of say 30 words from each blogs latest post and have that on the front page in a designated place. There would be 15 "boxes" on the front palce, all with text coming from bloggers last post
Is there a plugin/feature to pull posts sitewide and put them in a certain place on main blog? I found some plugin which pulls a random post but I need a specific post in a specific place
Appreciate feedback and suggestions
Many choices, each with various degrees of difficulty, various degree of strain on the server:
Option 1:
<?php
switch_to_blog($n); ?>
http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop
<?php restore_current_blog();
?>
Option 2:
RSS feeds - add sidebar RSS widget type code in each box
Option 3:
Donncha's Sitewide Tags Pages plugin and more Loops. http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop#Multiple_Loops
Tks vm for replies. Less difficulty is always better.... I know some php but I'm not an expert. I already have ahp recent posts running in my sidebar on the main blog and it's working fine.
Problem is I need a specicic blog in a specific place on the main site. Recent posts just grabs the latest and publishes it. Widget is great and easy but I would like the authors of teh other blogs to be features on the page and not in sidebar.