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Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) on "Multisite WP_Query and search functionality"

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 04:12:06 +0000

The network is intended to be multiple separate sites, hence this not being by design.

The best you could do would be to use WordPress MU Sitewide Tags (a plugin) and aggregate all the posts so you could search that. Otherwise you're joining tables for searches, and that's never fast nor efficient.

ciapci on "Multisite WP_Query and search functionality"

ciapci — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 15:19:20 +0000

The title pretty much covers it, There is no way to query the posts from the entire multisite, and no way to search on the entire multisite. A feature that lets users wp_query with the same single-site wordpress rules and a search would be amazing for a lot of people and companies using wordpress multisite that I've come across.

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) on "Global posts, comments, options and terms tables for network functionality"

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:17:00 +0000

Actually that isn't how WordPress.com does it :) They do not use global tables, if you mean the http://wordpress.com/fresh/ page. Effectively they're using two plugins (though as I gather, highly tweaked).

1) WordPress MU Sitewide Tags Pages - This aggregates posts to one table. In a sense it's creating a 'global' table, but what it's also doing is preventing you from having to search multiple tables, which is better for MySQL's health (as you mentioned, scales better).

2) Featured Posts - Which lets you pick what posts show up on the front page.

network isn't network, if there isn't relationship between its members.

That really depends on your definitions :) You can have a network of computers that don't talk to each other, and it's still a network. Lotta different definitions here.

Mikko Virenius on "Global posts, comments, options and terms tables for network functionality"

Mikko Virenius — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 08:53:45 +0000

I see your point, but building WordPress.com like frontpages always requires global tables - even if I would use Custom Post types.

Collecting this kind of data from blog spesific tables leads to very poor performance and low scalability, if there is large number of blogs.

...and moreover, network isn't network, if there isn't relationship between its members.

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) on "Global posts, comments, options and terms tables for network functionality"

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:55:34 +0000

That is contrawise to the concept behind MultiSite.

Your network is, by intention and design, filled with separate sites. This means your posts, your comments, your terms are all in separate tables. Global tables goes against that.

Separate sites are separate.

If you want one big site to have the same tables for comments, posts etc, you should consider using Custom Post Types.

Mikko Virenius on "Global posts, comments, options and terms tables for network functionality"

Mikko Virenius — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:06:35 +0000

Global posts, comments and terms tables is needed in order to build WordPress based portals and communities.

Building a network of sites has been available since 3.0, but global tables are still missing.

Peter Westwood on "Global functions for global variables."

Peter Westwood — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:15:51 +0000

The globals are there for easy access to the functionality both from within plugins and within themes.

However the data is stored within the running script it has to exist in something within the global space.

Adding functions to get hold of things like the current instance of the db class don't add any benefit and just end up increasing code bloat.

scribu on "Global functions for global variables."

scribu — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:00:10 +0000

Because using getter functions can't be enforced, it won't solve much.

Until WP moves to PHP5-only syntax, this will remain a problem.

Suggest closing.

shakabut on "private blog log in screen"

shakabut — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:31:53 +0000

if you still need a "private blog" plugin, you could try this: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/login-required/

danillonunes on "private blog log in screen"

danillonunes — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:13:42 +0000

This thread is very old, I know... But I made a plugin which is exactly what you asked in your first idea.

See it: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/login-box/