thelaw
Member
Posted 4 months ago #
I was wondering how I might be able to call the posts by a user from another multisite. For example, user joesmith wrote posts in the cars site and also in the sports site. I'd like to have a page in each site that lists all the posts by joesmith such as:
joesmith wrote these articles
cars site
1. Porsche is great
2. Love that Chevy
sports site
1. Love football
2. Playing golf
There may not be an easy way but I'm wondering if there are calls to other sites like global calls. The only other thought I had that was "easier" was using rss to grab posts by a user - not sure how that might work either.
bhenselmann
Member
Posted 4 months ago #
I´m looking exactly for the same thing!
I thought on trying to do something with switch_to_blog but maybe there is a better way?
maybe there is a better way
No, use switch_to_blog() http://codex.wordpress.org/WPMU_Functions/switch_to_blog, do the query and then restore back using restore_current_blog()
http://codex.wordpress.org/WPMU_Functions/restore_current_blog
thelaw
Member
Posted 4 months ago #
keesiemeijer - super!!! Thanks. This is what I was looking for. It's strange that you need to do this in the same database but the concept is sound and the same as switching databases in mysql. Thanks much.
Ideally there would be a way to have calls to all other multisites in one shot but, when I think about it, the only way to do this efficiently would be to have an index in a table of items from all other multisites or else it can get messy.
Thanks a lot for pointing me in the right direction! :)
keesiemeijer