WordPress MU

I'm very pleased with WPMU, except for a problem with the header bar.

On http://skepticblogs.com , the header bar has a navigation menu with "Main blog" and "Get a blog". But these two links point to http://domain.tld

How do I change the links so that they point at http://skepticblogs.com ?

Also, how can I or individual authors, get rid of the header navigation bar?

To edit the header, go to your themes directory:
wp-content/themes/

and edit your header.php

whichever theme you edit your header.php file for, will be site wide, even for individual authors.

You can also, enable themes, choose one you want for YOUR theme, enable it, then go back and disable that particular theme and nobody else can choose it.

it is a good way for you to have a "seperate" look to your site.

all in all, header.php is the file to edit...

hope that helps

I think I'm being misunderstood. If you go to http://skepticblogs.com right at the very top (above the header is a navigation bar whose links are wrong.

Can someone help?

I understand you completely, you must edit your header.php file for that particular theme.

I believe the directions say something about uncommenting lines to get it to work with Random Blog. Basically you need to edit the mu-admin-bar.php file which you put in mu-plugins and change domain.tld to your domain. I have no way of knowing ahead of time what your domain is and so didn't want to hard code something. The comments in the mu-admin-bar.php file should spell out very clearly what you need to edit.

I have no way of knowing ahead of time what your domain is and so didn't want to hard code something.

MU does have vars for this. ;)

Are they documented? Is there a consistent way to get the domain of the main blog that will work with people who seem to be running MU sites with different domains sharing one code base? I started the plugin mainly for my own needs and then people were looking for something that had the functions the admin bar had. I admit I am not intimately familiar with all the vars MU now has. I am also not sure the var was their when I was working on this. If someone points out where to find the vars, I'll look at modifying the plugin.

global $current_site;

Vars you're interested in would be:

$current_site->domain
$current_site->path

<a href="$current_site->domain . $current_site->path">

etc.

This comes from the "sites" table, and corresponds to the current domain, not the actual "blog".

I did

$main_blog = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $wpdb->blogs WHERE blog_id = '1'");
$domain = $main_blog[0]->domain;
$path = $main_blog[0]->path;
$main_url = 'http://' . $domain . $path;

which seems to work. I'll give this a try. Thanks.

lunabyte,

Yours doesn't seem to work instead of getting domain.tld/. I get subdomain.domain.tld/domain.tld/ with your code. Haven't had a chance to troubleshoot yet.

I might be a little of on the order, but that should do the trick.

For yours, you should be looking in the sites table.