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Oooh, me too please Deanna - have emailed you. :o)

k, just checked your new version, still some ideas for you which could help make the other plugin obsolete: http://plugins.paidtoblog.com/wpmu-blog-defaults/

- the other plugin can add other links into the default blogrolls, while your plugin can only delete the default ones
- the other plugin can add/define default widgets

Otherwise great improvements :-)

Questions:

- The settings under Bonus Settings, respectively From Email and From Email Name - are those global settings? I am a little confused about these two settings.
- Default Category: (Overwrites "Uncategorized") does this change the name and slug or only the name? Hopefuly both!
- Default Link Category: (Overwrites "Blogroll") - same here: is the slug also changed? would be great if so!

Ovidiu - yes it's both name and slug that are updated for both default category and default link category. The other updates aren't happening in this version.... Maybe next one.

For everyone else, here's the latest version:

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

great :-)

thanks a lot, that's a great plugin!

got a big problem after upgrading your plugin :-(

a user signs up for a blog at http://zice.ro writes a couple of psots and finds out all posts, categories and archives give a 404 error. If the user goes to settigns => permalinks and just saves without changing anything, everything is fine :-(

if I reinstall http://plugins.paidtoblog.com/wpmu-blog-defaults/ again, parallel to your plugin, everything works fine again, so obviously the other plugin is doing something different to your plugin? can you please verify?

can anyone duplicate my problem? all of you no problems at all with this plugin?

Ovidiu, can you leave URLs to both 'defaults' plugins you're using?

well previously I was using both these plugins:

http://plugins.paidtoblog.com/wpmu-blog-defaults/ (old one)
http://wpmudevorg.wordpress.com/project/New-Blog-Defaults (new one)

now that the new one has been updated to include most of the functionality of the old one, I deleted the old one and now new blogs don't work properly. with every new blog I have to log in and save the permalinks once otherwise all frontend links give 404 error.
If I activate the old plugin again, all is fine.

To me it seems that the new plugin isn't properly saving the permalinks settigns for new blogs :-(

I have set the permalinks for new blogs to be: /%category%/%postname%/

I use this: http://wpmudevorg.wordpress.com/project/New-Blog-Defaults and have no issues with default permalinks...

Well, do you have any other plugins that might do something with permalinks?

no :-( weird, with the one you use, all links are 404, if I additionally activate the old one its all good :-(

well, I can have them both running in parallel but its unnecessary.

Hm...let me look into it. I just now saw this. I'll try with your permalink setting. I've played with others and it worked, but I'm not sure I've tried your particular one.

Okay - it works for me - but you're using sub-domains, aren't you? I don't have a sub-domain install to test on. Can you tell me what the permalink goes to when you initially create a blog? Feel free to email me directly, because I don't check the forums every day.

I have a new version for you to test, Ovidiu. Send me email (deanna dot schneider at gmail dot com).

there's some problem with this plugin

as i installed this plugin i got some of the mu plugins options from siteadmin dissappear

and which options would that be that disappear?

Blogz,
Can you be more specific? I'm not seeing any issues like that.

I apologise to reply late, but some of the plugins options like terms and conditions, themes rollover list and userthemes revisited dissappeared but after i removed this plugin there were right back there

Blogz - that's weird, because I'm also using terms and conditions and do not have any issues with anything disappearing. I'm assuming there's some sort of plugin collision going, but I'm not sure which one.

Ovidiu - I looked at that other plugin again. It has one line of code that I don't know why is there or what it's doing. It's this line:
$wpdb->query( "UPDATE {$wpdb->terms} SET name = 'Articles', slug = 'articles' WHERE term_id = 1" );

I'm not sure what it has to do with permalinks, or if it has anything to with why you're experiencing the oddities. The permalink code changed for 2.7, and the old plugin is using the old way.... Not sure if that has anything to do with it either.

I think its there to set the default category name to Articles and adjust the slug accordingly if I am not mistaken...

:-( will wait for wpmu 2.7.1 then try again and disable the other plugin to see if it works if I run only yours.

DeannaS - I am not sure about it and it could be due to conflict among this and other plugins as well as i am using too many plugins but it worked fine when I removed this one.

I had to modify http://wpmudevorg.wordpress.com/project/New-Blog-Defaults a little. Seems like /blog is hardcoded, so all new blogs were created my.domain.ltd/username/BLOG/date.., with blog being there no matter what you enter. I just removed it and now blogs are created again as /username/date.

Just pointing out that maybe it shouldnt be hardcoded.

Hm.... Konstan - I took that code directly from the WPMU ource code I think. I'll take a look at what's in 2.7.1 though and see if it's changed.

Konstan - what's the BASE set to in your htaccess?

Its set to /

I double-checked, and in 2.7 /blog is there in the core code, as well. I basically took the code from wp-admin/options-permalink and copied it in my plugin.

I haven't heard of it creating problems for other folks....

Hiya folks!

I'm trying to get new member blogs in BuddyPress to have a default setting (widgets, plugins).

I have a post going here: http://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1632&replies=4#post-10361

and I'm stumped!

Basically I'm trying to control how the theme of new member blogs appears...and I would like that to be uniform throughout buddypress/WPMU.

Does that make sense?
Can you help me out?

Best,
Dainis

We can help out with the setting up of preset widgets (already been discussed) but as far as making the blog *themes* look the same as the buddypress theme?

I'd bounce you back over there but I see no one's done it yet.

Buddypress DOES come with a home theme for the main blog. Make a copy of it and rename it. Take out home.php and make sure there's a post loop in index.php.

Shouldn't be too hard for anyone who's ever made a theme before.