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Blog Linking Plugin – Link between sites on multisite

KE Kenn
Kenn
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Sep 15, 2014 · 7:34 am · Edited

Hi All,

Can you offer any advice as to whether this is possible and if so how to continue.

After forum conflicts and slow speeds due to the forum conflicting with other site active plugins we moved the forum to a new subsite of the mainsite on our wordpress network. eg. sitename.com/forum

I activated the same theme on both so the user is unaware that it is a different site as everything looks the same but it has helped as we have turned nearly all plugins off except the forum.

I am looking to streamline the customers work and found that they have been copy and pasting forum content to make posts. This seems daft as your blog linking plugin will handle this for them.

Problem is – We want the posts on sitename.com to appear on the forum site sitename.com/forum and backwards as well so posts on site sitename.com/forum appears as new posts on sitename.com

Look forward to any ideas or directions.

Thanks

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YS Yellow Swordfish
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Sep 15, 2014 · 9:08 am

It can be done but it would need a lot of special coding.

Lots of problems to resolve. Neither domain is aware of the others existence. They use different databases with different access credentials. The SP plugin code is only loaded on the domain where it is active and components would need to be written to run on the other domain…

Lot’s of recoding, new coding would be needed…

KE Kenn
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Sep 15, 2014 · 9:45 am

Same database within the multisite just different tables eg. wp3_ running on sub folders not subdomains. Both can be accessed through the network admin area of the multisite but yes the plugin is only loaded on the one sub site not the main one.

Is it something you would consider under your custom plugin service?

KE Kenn
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Sep 15, 2014 · 10:00 am

Could this work with the RSS feed from the main site to generate the posts on the forum and we could just deactivate comments on the posts?

YS Yellow Swordfish
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Sep 15, 2014 · 11:31 am

To be honest I think the RSS feed notion would probably be more complicated in the long run as that more or less be starting from scratch.

This is indeed something we could consider under the custom plugin umbrella. I am actually about to leave on vacation but let me talk to colleagues here to see of we can come up with a rough guide to time and costs involved…

KE Kenn
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Sep 26, 2014 · 10:54 am

Hi All,

I am a member of WPMUDev and they have a plugin called Autoblog

http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/autoblog/

If we used this to ‘clone’ the post from the parent site to the sub site would your blog linking plugin then add the content to the forum? I don’t want to get content duplicated really but I will just not advertise it.

MP Mr Papa
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Sep 26, 2014 · 11:21 am

without knowing more, hard to say…  I assume you are asking if the post was cloned on the network site (sub?), would our blog linking plugin then create a blog linked topic also on the network site??

If that plugin fully utilizes the wp api (all the standard post creation hooks get fired) for creating that cloned post on the network site, I would think it would…  but have not tried it…

and remember, if you use our blog linking plugin, you can avoid duplicate content by using the canonical url option for it and only have on url reported to search engines…