WordPress MU

er... What I meant to say was that 'Wp-autoblog' has been taken down. Anybody know of another source for this plugin so I can try this approach to categories?

i just cant understand what people are yelling out here.

The only thing i would like to have work properly is side wide Tags, but's too hard for me to get ready.
If i will try what's the first page, it might work ?

get autoblog here. sorry, i still havent found a decent download manager for my site.

Thanks!

Hi,
I've set up my two separate installs like in the instructions (I think) and the different posts all get collected like they should and the tags install links back to the original but I'm having problems getting the other links to work. On my tags install links to the category archives jump to the WPMU install and throw up a 404.

I have wpmu in the root and wp in a folder called tags in the root. I think it's probably something stupid I've missed but does anyone have any ideas how to get it working properly?

I don't think it's related but at the moment the site isn't fully set up, I'm waiting for my hosts to set up wildcard subdomains so I only really have one blog working.

Sorted it, I hadn't set up a htaccess file in the tags install.

Sorry for wasting your time!

Does anyone know how Wordpress handles cron jobs? I have installed this solution and it seems to be working. But it doesn't seem to automatically propagate. I have to visit the trigger blog and then go to the 'collector' blog and rerun the wp-autoblog script.
Would it be better to set up a cron job on the server to trigger those RSS generation?
Is there a way to configure wp-cron?

Cron's built into wordpress. You may want to search the forums over at wordpress.org as there's a couple of threads on the subject in the past.

Are you sure the trigger blog gets decent traffic?

could it be the feed plugin? i finally got it working with my subdir install. but i always have to go into the options and 'save options' to get it to update. i'm sure there's a fix here somewhere, i just havent had the time to find it.

Anyone know where I can download Dr. Mike's WP-Autoblog. The file is no longer on the site listed above. Any help would be appreciated!

hit me at admin (at) realsportsbloggers (dot) com.

i have the original. its listed in another thread, but i moved after a large amount of spam hit my site.

I sent you an email the day before yesterday if you could send it. I really would appriciate it :)

edit: ok thanks alot !

my bad, i thought i sent it already. i'll resend it.

4 months later, I finally got around to it. Worked like a charm, especialy after re-read the whole page of the category tag cloud thingy and stopped making stupid mistakes... ;)

thanks for the brain work drmike.

Sent a follow up email. Still looking for the file if you could sent it.Thanks.

get the autoblog here.

I also found it and drmike's edit on the first page in the thread.

yup, thats what i was thinking.

Hi! I,ve got small problem with this:

Plugin creates for me only 2 categories:
- Uncategorized
and (I don't know what is it):
- Array

All posts from users categories are agregating in "Array".

How to fix it? Any ideas?

2 questions????

1. Is it possible to get list_authors on this setup?

2. Probably been answered but I'll try anyways. I've been trying to get the cloud to display correctly. Instead of going to a new line for every entry I want it to list it horizontally and then goto the next line. Everything says adding a display inline works. Tried multiple places and times and nothing. Any advice?

Where did you add display inline?

thanks for all the knowledge here. Where do i find the wpmu feed plugin? It's not on wpmudev.org

get it here

thank you.

I have been trying to follow the directions from Dr.Mike in the original post. They are very helpful, but i just want to make sure i understand them right

1) Install a copy of Wordpress somewhere handy. I've put mine in http://daria.be/tags

As an aside, make sure you have this name blocked out from your WPMu install or otherwise you're going to have issues.

DONE!

2) Install the WPMufeed plugin and get it working.

DONE!

3) Grab a copy of the reworked WP-Autoblog that I'm going to stick up over in http://wpmudevorg.wordpress.com once I get this finished.

4) Install the plugin but do not activate it yet.

Is this a plugin to be installed under wp-mu? If so, should it be installed under mu-plugins or plugins?
Is this a plugin to be installed under the new wordpress for 'tags'?

5) Go through your WordPress install that you have setup for the tags and make the following changes:

- Uncheck 'Anyone can register'
- Change the Syndication Feeds to Summary (Optional but suggested)
- Bump up the Show the Most Recent: to something like 25. (Again optional but what the hey)
- ***VERY IMPORTANT Turn off the first three options under 'Usual settings for an article' ***VERY IMPORTANT*** This way you're not sending out pings to the posts you're importing. Did I say how important it was to turn off those options?
- Change Permalinks to 'Date and name based'

DONE!

6) Open up wp-includes/link-template.php (Please back it up first) and find the function get_permalink. It's near the top. Go to the end of the function. See that array with like ten lines? From the line after the ); at the end of the array to the line before this - "// get permalink from post ID", replace it with the following:

$permalink = $post->guid;
return apply_filters('post_link', str_replace($rewritecode, $rewritereplace, $permalink), $post);
} else { // if they're not using the fancy permalink option
$permalink = $post->guid;
return apply_filters('post_link', $permalink, $post);
return;
}
}

And then save the file.

Is this under the new wordpress (tags) or the wp-mu??

7) Bump up the WPMuFeed to a high number depending on how currently active your blog is currently. Say 1000. (You can change it back after the first import.)

DONE!

8) Activate the plugin.

Ahem.. which one? Wpmu feed? or wp-autoblog?

Answers to these questions will greatly help me get to next ones. I really appreciate any help.

Everything related to that plugin is for the NEW WP install for TAGS.

Because that's the part that does the autoblogging part, snagging it from your mu install, see.

Another site wide tags solution can be found here: http://wpmudevorg.wordpress.com/project/WPMU-Site-Wide-Tags

Does it still eat up a lot of resources?

I reworked the instructions, and posted them to the wiki and linked to from WPMUDEV so that we don't keep adding more complexity to them:

http://codex.wordpress.org/WPMU_Site_Wide_Categories

Please, add into the instructions, not onto the confusion.

If you know the solution to BartekPOL's issue, please comment and feed the instructions.

Also, has anyone here tried http://devthought.com/wp-o-matic-the-wordpress-rss-agreggator/ as the aggregator?

Thanks,
Martin.