Title: Network-wide posts
Author: Aurovrata Venet
Published: <strong>March 28, 2016</strong>
Last modified: November 30, 2021

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# Network-wide posts

 By [Aurovrata Venet](https://profiles.wordpress.org/aurovrata/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/network-wide-posts.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/network-wide-posts/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/network-wide-posts/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/network-wide-posts/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/network-wide-posts/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/network-wide-posts/)

## Description

This is a multisite plugin.

The plugin creates a network-wide tag in all post_tag taxonomy of each site.

Tagged posts are made available for a theme developer to display on the home site.

Furthermore, the home site admin dashboard has a new submenu Posts->Network Wide(
the name of your network-wide tag) which allows the admin to manually order the 
network-wide posts with a drag and drop interface.

This plugin was originally designed for a client site. The site is a multi-resort
group of hotels. Each hotel has special offers through the season. Each special 
offer is promoted on the home site. Special offers need to be pushed up to the top
of the page at various moments during the season. This plugin allows them to do 
so.

The plugin is compatible with the excellent [PolyLang](https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/)
multi-language plugin.

**Main Features of this plugin**

 * Allows multi-site child-blog posts authors to tag their articles as network-wide
 * These child-blog posts can be manually ordered in the main blog
 * It is fully compatible with the PolyLang multi-language plugin

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Shows the main blog Dashboard settings page for Network Wide posts. If you change
   the name of the network-wide,the new name will be used as the sub-menu in the
   Posts dashboard menu.
 * [[
 * The sub-menu in the Posts dashboard section. You can order the post as per the
   default published date, the slug or opt for a manual order.
 * [[
 * If you use the PolyLang plugin to enable multi-language content, the plugin allows
   you to sort each set of language specific network-wide posts in tabs.

## Installation

 1. Upload the plugin files to the `/wp-content/plugins/plugin-name` directory, or 
    install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
 3. Navigate to your main blog admin Dashboard, and set your network-wide taxonomy 
    in the options page Settings->Network Wide Post.
 4. You can also set aliases for your child blogs to facilitate network-wide posts 
    manual ordering process.
 5. To order your posts, navigate to the Dashboard Posts->Network Wide submenu page.
 6. If you have multiple languages, each language posts will appear under a separate
    tab.

## FAQ

### How do I display the network-wide post in a page?

The functionality is exposed through a single function `get_network_wide_posts()`,

which returns an array of posts with a limited number of meta-fields, which are,

 * `post_id` the id of the post
 * `post_title` the title of the post
 * `post_excerpt` the excerpt of the post
 * `post_url` the permalink of the post
 * `thumb_url` the thumbnail image URL of the post
 * `blog_id` the id of the blog to which this post belongs to

Here is the example of how to use it in a page template

    ```
    $nwposts = array();
    if(function_exists('get_network_wide_posts')){
      $nwposts = get_network_wide_posts();
      foreach($nwposts as $post){
        ?>
    <article id="post-<?php echo $post['post_id']; ?>" >
      <a class="post-thumbnail" href="<?php echo $post['post_url'];?>" >
            <img src="<?php echo $post['thumb_url'];?>" class="attachment-post-thumbnail" alt="<?php echo $post['post_title'];?>">
      </a>
        <header class="entry-header">
            <h1><?php echo $post['post_title'];?></h1>
        </header><!-- .entry-header -->
        <div class="entry-content">
            <?php echo $post['post_excerpt'];?>
        </div><!-- .entry-content -->
      </article><!-- #post-## -->
    <?php
      }
    }
    ?>
    ```

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Network-wide posts” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Aurovrata Venet ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/aurovrata/)

[Translate “Network-wide posts” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/network-wide-posts)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/network-wide-posts/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/network-wide-posts/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/network-wide-posts/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/network-wide-posts/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.1.1

 * bug fix in public class SQL query

#### 1.1

 * Fixed a bug which prevented the posts to be loaded when no feature image was 
   set

#### 1.0

 * Initial launch of the plugin with PolyLang compatibility

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1.1**
 *  Last updated **4 years ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.5 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.8.13**
 * Tags
 * [manual order](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/manual-order/)[multisite](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/multisite/)
   [network](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/network/)[posts](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/posts/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/network-wide-posts/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Aurovrata Venet ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/aurovrata/)

## Support

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