WordPress MU

Hi,

Sorry but I don't write very well english.

I need your help for the following issue :

I have just created a multiblog Website.
How to create a blog retrieving the same theme, category and links as the main site ?

To understand my question, please find below an example :

I create the website http://www.example.com, I customise it with a theme, new links and new categories.
Now, I create several blogs :
blog1.example.com
blog2.example.com
blog3.example.com

When I create a blog, I want to retrieve the same configuration as the main site http://www.example.com (Theme, categories, links ...)

How to do ?
Currently, when I create a blog, I have to reappply theme, recreate categories, recreate links ... that is very long...

Thanx for you help.
Nico from Paris

You need to modify wp-includes/wpmu-functions.php on line 1412 look for install_blog_defaults.

This function holds new blogs defaults.

NO, don't edit core files. There are plugins for this. For the theme and other defaults, try

http://wpmudevorg.wordpress.com/project/New-Blog-Defaults

And this one for categories:

http://wpmudevorg.wordpress.com/project/new-blog-default-categories-plus-search-and-replace

I am sure there are others too.

I agree don't modify the core unless you really know what your doing and there is no other way or hook in place.

If you do, I suggest putting it under version control to keep track of changes.

@grandslambert , these plugins you listed set default options, how do you go about adding default pages , and other db entries, besides options, on install. I have not found a clean way?

There are also some plugins for that I hear, but I haven't used any because I don't usually use "pages" in a blog. I just tried to find one but don't see any, and can't do a whole lot of searching since I am at work.

However, I know there is the action hook

add_action('wpmu_new_blog', 'function_name')

So you can create a mu-plugin that has a function to do whatever you want, add pages, categories, set the theme, etc. The action sends the new blog ID to your function, then you can do whatever your want.

OK, after looking at the plugin http://wpmudevorg.wordpress.com/project/New-Blog-Defaults

the author deletes the default db entries and recreates them.

yes the author is hooking into add_action('wpmu_new_blog', 'function_name')

Thanx a lot guys, I gonna evaluate these plugins
See u

I have just evaluated these plugins and it match my needs !
Thanx guys.
So, Do you know a similar plugin for links or another solution to keep links when i create a new blog ?

Thanx for your help
Nico from paris

If you can follow my code, you can write that part yourself. It wouldn't be that hard. I don't have time to add it right now - maybe in the next iteration.

Ok I'd like to see your code as soon as you can.
Thanx
nico

by her code I guess she meant her plugin, see link above to the new-blog-defaults plugin!

new-blog-defaults does not include the possibility to avoid recreating links