Grab/Display Info From Random Child Site?

  • justbishop

    (@justbishop)


    12 years, 10 months ago

    I’d love to create a “featured” site block that chooses a random child site in the network, and grabs info about it as pictured:

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v84/justbishop/featuredrandom.png

    It seems easy enough to add a new field to the admin panel area user profiles, and I figured that child site admins could just enter a URL for the 125×125 image there. If the child site admin’s bio info could be pulled, the value of the new profile field could be pulled as well, right?

    Anyway, is there a plugin that will do this (or is anyone interested in creating one)? I have seen a WPMU featured blog widget floating around, but I want something that automatically displays a new blog (site) each time a page refreshes, and that plugin requires the network admin to input a blog ID number to display.

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    12 years, 10 months ago

    You could take that featured blog plugin and change the code from a manual entry to just calling a random number via PHP… Or a random number from an array of numbers, assuming you don’t want ALL the blogs to be possibly featured.

    Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    12 years, 10 months ago

    I’d take that featured blog widget and add a randomizer to it.

    Thread Starter justbishop

    (@justbishop)

    12 years, 10 months ago

    Yeah, I figured that the existing plugin would be the place to start. I’ll have to have a look at it’s guts and see if it’s too far above my level of expertise. I might be able to stumble my way through it 🙂

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