Comments on: Global page navigation accross WordPress MU blogs

By: Samuel Sirois

Samuel Sirois — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:29:01 +0000

Thank you very much for this code. Works great in WP3. I've slightly updated the code since CK's version of URL replacement was still hard-coded stuff, (see CK's array solution to URL replacement problem) and won't work fluently when an administrator can add sites that were not there at first release. Here is a little trick that worked for me:


switch_to_blog(1);
$mainSiteURL = get_bloginfo('url');
restore_current_blog();
$output = str_replace(get_bloginfo('url'), $mainSiteURL, $output);

Of course, you don't want to switch blog twice, but that's basically what would work in a generic way. Thanks to Felipe Navarro V. comment for pointing out the switch_to_blog function.

By: Felipe Navarro V.

Felipe Navarro V. — Thu, 20 May 2010 06:50:20 +0000

Thanks, was very useful. Perhaps you better use:
switch_to_blog(1); $pages = get_pages($args); restore_current_blog();

instead of

$wpdb->set_blog_id(1);

By: CK

CK — Mon, 17 May 2010 22:47:46 +0000

For all above who where having problems with the sub directories. I added an array of all my sub blogs and then removed them all with the string replace. See $blogs = array below

// This line is sloppy and needs improvement.
// You have to remove the name of the blog your currently on from you global navigation.
// I’m doing this the simplest but least scalable way here.

$blogs = array(“music/”, “action-sports/”, “new-releases/”,”stuff-we-like/”);
$output = str_replace($blogs, “”, $output);

if ( $r['echo'] )
echo $output;
else
return $output;
}

By: Ecenica

Ecenica — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 14:29:35 +0000

Maybe I spoke too soon? This doesn’t seem to work for subdomain WPMU’s does it? – Am I missing something?

By: Ecenica

Ecenica — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 13:53:54 +0000

Great bit of code. Searched WPMU Forum without success and came across your code. Thanks for sharing!

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Teleogistic / Making Sitewide Tags work — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:58:23 +0000

[...] those changes manually to the tags blog. A bit of Googling led me to a solution. Dusty Reagan wrote a function that he calls wp_list_main_pages that pulls the navigation dynamically from the main site blog onto any other blog on the site. [...]

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Making Sitewide Tags work - CUNY Academic Commons Development Blog — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:56:00 +0000

By: Tyrael

Tyrael — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:36:17 +0000

Just what I was looking for! However, I have the problem that my WPMU install uses subdirectories instead of subdomains, and I need the page link to point to the page on the main site. Currently, it links to the page of the current sub-site (which doesn’t exist).

The link I want: domain.com/page
The link I am getting: domain.com/subsite/page

By: scott bothel

scott bothel — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:19:33 +0000

Great work. It inspired a solution (hack) to my problem of wanting to display a global menu controlled by the bookmarks list of the main blog.
Problem: once defining the current site as ID 1, I can’t get it to go back to the actual current site to display the user’s own bookmarks list. How do I get the real ID back?
global $wpdb; $wpdb->set_blog_id(1);

By: SQL Tutorials

SQL Tutorials — Fri, 01 May 2009 02:57:30 +0000

Does anyone know if there is another language or set of commands beside SQL for talking with databases?

I’m working on a project and am doing some research thanks