WordPress MU

Where can I find MU frontpage themes? I am looking to setup something like blogs.adobe.com where you have recent posts including some content and info.

Take whatever theme you want, and add various plugins and stuff to ge tthe results you want. there are non out there bundled with recents posts plugins or lists.

doesn't work for the homepage, not designed to.

Do you mean FrontPage or do you mean themes for the main blog? Because your last post does not even make sense.

Because a regular theme for WP can be customized to include recents posts across the system and all kinds of other things. It is not built in, you have to add the bits yourself. All kinds of people have done it.

I mean the page you see when you visit myblog.com not myblog.com/someones_blog

If you're looking for something to be handed out, you're out of luck.

You'll have either make your own theme, or modify one to suit your liking.

I am looking for somewhere to download one. Just like you can download regular themes. I wouldn't know where to srart to make my own anyway.

Ryan, please reread the answers posted here, I think you may be a bit confused. All you do is either write your own theme or modify a previous theme to your liking. There's no specials themes that you need to download. You can find themes at http://themes.wordpress.net as well as elsewhere on the net.

If you feel uncomfortable with that idea of editing your themes or working with php, please remember that that is one of the requirements of the software.

From the readme file:

If you're not comfortable editing PHP code, taking care of a complex webserver and database system and being pro-active about following developments of this project then run, don't walk, to http://wordpress.com/ and sign yourself and your friends up to free blogs. It's easier in the long run and you'll save yourself a lot of pain and angst.

You may want to take some time and consider if you would be up to running mu. What would happen if 100k folks signed up for your install within the next 24 hours? Could you provide support for them? What's going to happen when they start asking you questions? Considering that you appear to be having concerns with digesting responses given to you here on your question, you may be over your head.

Just something to think about.

I am the administrator for the web server, I know verry little of PHP however and may or may not be able to modify an existing theme to work as the MU homepage. As far as 100k users signing up in 24 hours, I know this won't be a conern as nobody can signup for a blog, just an account for the purpose of having one for commenting.

The goal is to run something like blogs.adobe.com for my company and blogs will be for staff only so I won't have 100k blogs but I feel MU is more advantageous over numerous seperate installs.

I was inquiring as to the avaliblity of themes that are MU frontpage ready. As this is not the case, what modifications need to be made to make a template compatable for the MU frontpage?

Is it a complex modification where I need to look into the budget for outsourcing the coding, or would it be simplistic enough to do with a basic PHP knowledge, and if so, what do I need to change, perhaps their is documentation on this?

Every theme, if it works on wpmu, is mu front page ready. Anything you throw in there as extra is extra and is up to you to do so. You may want to take a look at the wp-content/themes/home/home.php file included with your download as it's an example of some of the things that you can do with your front page.

If you're looking to do something specific with your front page, say a list of "last updated blogs", you may want to search the forums for previous discussions on the topics. Another example, say for a list of latest posts, can be done with the wpmufeed plugin and using the fetch_rss function built into wpmu. An example of that is to take a look at how it's currently done with the dashboard page on your admin side for your install. (ie wp-admin/index-extras.php I believe it's named.)

There are no generally available themes designed strictly for the main blog for wpmu. Everybody does their differently and want to display different things on their front page.

If you want to outsource, may I suggest http://incsub.com or clicking on andrea's link up there. Both do custom work. You should come up with a specific list as what you want though on your front page.

Well I am looking to have a front page that displays the most recent posts from any blog, such as the front page of blogs.adobe.com, as far as outsourcing to the link you provided, "We don’t take on work or contracts that total less than US$1.5K" either simply setting up a frontpage would be too small, or they charge alot for such a task to meet their minimum requirement.

As far as the frontpage, the link you provided happens to link to http://wpmudevorg.wordpress.com which as I look around, they do actually have a simple frontpage design that will show the recent posts, and it's GPL so I ccould work off of that and modify as needed hopefully without any further help. I'll definatley stop by again though if I have any questions though.

Well, maybe not. I am looking at this theme that says, "...theme for the WPMU Home/ Admin blog..." but apparently that does not mean it shows posts from all blogs, just the admin blog.

I belive this is the code to show that:

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

there may be more, let me know if this is not the whole code, I'll try to see if there is some nearby code that might go with it, or I may just post the whole file, but here is what I want to do with it:

1) Show x recent posts from all blogs

2) Show a breif description, in testing I noticed it puts the whole post

Any examples, help is appriciated...thanks.

"that does not mean it shows posts from all blogs, "

Because that features *is a plugin*. Different setups require different bits on the front page. The main blogs themes that are out there just have the basic design done with loads of room for you to put there what you want.

Example? Sure, http://homeschooljournal.net - Three seperate plugins are used to create that (one is used twice), and it's just a randomly selected WP theme that I modified.

Search for "most recent post" plugins. That'll get you started.