WordPress MU

I am launching a wordpress mu site http://socialeguide.com
soon and I need plugins to work in my site.
I need plugins like:

1)User Themes
2)WPMU Sitewide Feed
3)Sidebar Author Registration

All of the above, their links not working. How can I get these plugins or are there new options available?

And I need these functions:
1)view all sitewide posts (tags blog)
2)sitewide recent post
3)sitewide archives
4)sitewide topics
5)header for main site as headers for all blogs(so they can easily find their way back to the main blog)
6)Most Popular Posts
7)Most Popular Blogs
8)New Blogs
9)Featured Editors
10)Directory page of all blogs
11)Author's page
12)Directory of all bloggers

I saw many of these functions at http://umwblogs.org/

How can I find many of these plugins or are most of the plugins multi purpose (meaning you just need to change a function to call a certain list?)

I am pretty new to all this but learning fast.

Also willing to pay someone to make these plugins work on my site. I didn't know where to post this.

Donncha's Site Wide Tags plugin will knock out like 5 or 6 of those features for you ..including sitewide tags, feeds, recent posts, search and archives.

You need to do your research and use the search feature on these forums.

@klarko
thanks for that. I downloaded donnacha's mu sitewide tags plugin and put it into the mu-plugins folder and
#it is not listed under site Admin and Options.

I have had this problem with a few plugins. I put them in the mu-plugins folder and they do not show anything.

it worked when i put it in plugins folder.
Should I put the other mu-plugins that are not working in the plugins folder?

Go to http://wpmudevorg.wordpress.com. Tons of stuff there.

Please note that not all plugin "do stuff" in the backend when they are int he mu-plugins folder. And they don't show up in the plugins list.

It has to go in the mu-plugins folder. Then go to Site Admin > Options. It's easy to miss, but it's under the section "Global Tags".

Enable it and tick off put posts to main blog. Once you do that, you can simply use template tags to manipulate how you want to display recent posts, search, archives, tags, etc.

i did it but the tags blog is not there when I went to http://tags.socialeguide.com

In the options tab:

Tags Blog
You can create your post archive in a specific 'tags' blog of your choosing, or you can use the main blog of your site. Each has it's own pros and cons.

1. Tags.Blogname of the blog your global tags and posts will live in. Blog will be created.
2. Post to main blog
Create posts in your main blog. All posts will appear on the front page of your site. Remember to to add a post loop to home.php in the theme directory if it exists.

Which should I choose, what are the pros and cons?

i chose the first option, to create a tags page and now i get this error:

Table 'narroyo6_blog.wp_8_ak_popularity_options' doesn't exist on line: 124

What do I do now?

Sorry for all the need for help :)

You should choose the second option, so you can display the posts on your front page.

do i tick off the box that says tags blog enabled?

then erase the prefilled word tags for option 1?

also it says this: Remember to to add a post loop to home.php in the theme directory if it exists.

What do I add to the post loop? Is it those different tags added to the loop that will give me the 5 or 6 features mentioned above? And I checked and no home.php is in the theme directory.

thanks Klarko.

Ok

Just tick the second option to put the posts in the mainblog. So when you or your users write a post in a sublog, the post is copied to the mainblog with permalinks intact. That's how it works. It might sound bad, duplicate content and all ..but it works quite well.

With that understanding above, we can use these:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags
To display and use content from all the blogs on the system.

The bit about adding the post loop to home.php is just one example of how you can use it. Some themes don't have a home.php. The default MU home theme does.

For example, on my site I display a small tag cloud on the home page using this code in my theme: <?php wp_tag_cloud('smallest=12&largest=26&number=30&orderby=count&order=DESC'); ?> And then I display all on a seperate page.

This is all very easy, just get an understanding of Wordpress themes and how they work before you delve further into MUland.

so if i wanted to list updated blog posts on the main page, what would i edit the

/public_html/wp-content/themes/home/home.php

or

/public_html/wp-content/themes/arthemia-premium/index.php

what code would i use in the loop to display updated blog post in the body of the main page
see: http//socialeguide.com ?

@Klarko
I admire your patience :-)

@narroyo623
are u serious? of course u need to edit the theme your blog is using. are u using the home or the arthemia theme?

if the theme u are using has a home.php then that file influences whats shown on your homepage, if not, its the index.php

thank you Ovidiu. I figured that but I wanted to be sure.
and I do thank Klarko for his patience.

I would still like the second part of my question answered if that's ok.

what code would i use in the loop to display updated blog post in the body of the main page not the sidebar.
see: http//socialeguide.com ?

To answer the first question, you would edit the theme that is activated for the main site.

MU comes with a function built-in for your second question. Don't want to confuse you but you can see it in action if you use the default MU theme. I pasted it below, but don't just use that. Go look at the default theme's home.php and see where I copied it from. You will notice that it does NOT go in the loop.

<?php
$blogs = get_last_updated();
if( is_array( $blogs ) ) {
	?>
	<ul>
	<strong>Updated Blogs</strong>
	<?php foreach( $blogs as $details ) {
		?><li><a href="http://<?php echo $details[ 'domain' ] . $details[ 'path' ] ?>"><?php echo get_blog_option( $details[ 'blog_id' ], 'blogname' ) ?></a></li><?php
	}
	?>
	</ul>
	<?php
}
?>

Also Arthemia is a good but fairly complex theme. Are you sure want to start off with that ? It might be a good idea to play with the default one until you get more familiar with this stuff.

i am trying to use list-all-posts.php but need to know how to show a list for it. What is the code to use so that it can appear in the body of the main site (not in sidebar.php)

the text instructions that came with it doesnt't help me much.

I want sitewide posts to show on the home page of http://socialeguide.com like it shows now with ten dummy posts. Can you please take a look at site and then advise.

Thanks again.

@Klarko I know that Arthemia is fairly hard and I really didn't know anything about wordpress until recently but I want to learn. I like a challenge :)

Might wanna read up at http://wpmututorials.com

This is about using Google Friend Connect with WordpressMU installation. I am looking for some tips and tricks to make GFC (Google Friend Connect) work with WPMU, e.g. where to put rpc_relay and canvas files for individual blogs of WPMU and any change in the plugin if required?