WordPress MU

First I was switching to each blog and then using
$recent = new WP_Query('showposts=1');
to grab the newest post from each. Then I was just printing it out right there. Then I'd switch to the next blog and so on.

My issue is that I wish to have these most recent posts sorted chronologically...and since a blog might get queried before another one with a more recent post, this can't happen the way I'm doing it.

I've changed what I was doing and built a stdObject array up and then sorted it. The only problem with this is now I cannot use "member" functions on it. I get the following error when I try to loop through as I would normally on a post using while($stuff->have_posts()) : $stuff->the_post();

ERROR:
Fatal error: Call to a member function have_posts() on a non-object in...

How can I properly get the most recent entry from each Blog on my site sorted chronologically with newest first and still use the normal loop functions?

Why not just use one of the sitewide tagging solutions that compile the posts and produce a latest post list from that?

Well...I've already built this site not using those plugins and I want only the single most recent post from each blog...not the 10 most recent posts regardless of where they come from.

I could just go through this and try not using the standard functions like the_title(), etc. but I'd like to.

Basically I have a stdObject array...but I want it to be able to use those above functions. Is there a way to enable it to use the_title(), etc via an include or something of that nature?

"I want only the single most recent post from each blog."

The sitewide tags plugin does exactly that.

How can i get n number of posts from a particular blog by giving its blog id in the home page?

something like this?

<?php query_posts('blog_id=4&posts_per_page=5'); ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?>

<?php endwhile; ?>

please help!

i need multiple blogs of this on my main blog homepage and flexibility to show excerpts, title, or full post. :) asking for too much?

i need multiple *blocks* of this on my main blog homepage and flexibility to show excerpts, title, or full post.

Usually, that excerpts or not is handled via the theme. Look at any magazine theme out there with a bunch of blocks on the main page.

thanks andrea,

but my main problem is to get n number of posts from a particular blog by its blogid (and if possible from a certain category or tag) on the home page of my mainblog

something like this:
<?php query_posts('blog_id=4&posts_per_page=5'); ?>

or

<?php query_posts('blog_id=4&'category_name=canada&posts_per_page=3'); ?>

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>

I'm sort of having this issue too. My problem is how to get the original individual blog names show on the new sitewide tags blog. I want to create a mixed RSS feed from that blog and there it's important to show the blog names from each blog.

I use this in the postmeta section of the template on the main(tags) blog to return the original blog name/link:

<small><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> by <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?><?php
	  list($org_blog_id,$post_id) = explode('.', $post->guid);
	if($org_blog_id) {
		$blog_details = get_blog_details($org_blog_id);
		echo '  from <a href="' . $blog_details->siteurl . '">' . $blog_details->blogname . '</a>';
	} ?> | <a href="<?php comments_link(); ?>">Comments (<?php comments_number('0', '1', '%', 'number'); ?>)</a></small>

Oh, and I have another function in the template's functions.php to return the comment count, if interested.