You might want to give this a try.
http://xentek.net/code/wordpress/plugins/mu-helpers/
You’ll have to code the avatar bit in yourself.
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patung
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Thanks, there’s also a lot of stuff that looks like it can do that here – http://premium.wpmudev.org/global-listings/ but you have to pay.
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patung
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And they are damn pushy about getting you to pay, once logged in can’t even visit any of the other pages except ‘pay us now’.
that’s why I put in a free link.
These plugins rely on the db-querying function get_blog_list, which has been deprecated for its “suicidal” tendencies (if you have a lot of blogs).
I am hoping to find alternatives over in this thread.
Right, but they are perfectly fine for those users who do not have a lot of blogs.
I don’t seem to be getting an answer to my questions though. What is the safe method for users with a lot of blogs?
You’re asking the same question in a multitude of places, and Ron just answered you in the relevant single thread.
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/suicidal-multisite-database-queries
Anyone running their own large site has their own preferred methods for aggregating data.
We covered this a whole lot over in the old mu forums.
Sorry, it took me a while to even figure out what I should be asking and how I should be phrasing the question. I will be in the relevant single thread henceforth… though I’ve all but given up hope that what I thought was a simple question would have a simple answer =:-o
Yeah, it’s not a simple question. 🙂
