Hard coded would actually be the best way around it, as cross-site traffic can get expensive (CPU wise)
What about pulling in something like the most recent posts from across the site? Is that doable?
There’s a plugin for that – Diamond Multisite Widgets. It uses caching to make magic happen with less drama on the CPU 🙂
I tried that but it breaks my theme. Here is my sidebar code:
<div id="sidebar-alt" class="sidebar widget-area">
<div id="text-4" class="widget widget_text">
<div class="widget-wrap">
<div class="textwidget">
<img src="/images/advertise.jpg" alt="Advertise Here" />
<img src="/images/advertise.jpg" alt="Advertise Here" />
</div>
</div>
</div>
<?php DiamondRP(); ?>
</div>
If I remove the DiamondRP code, the theme renders fine. When I put it back in, I lose my buddypress menu bar and my footer. Any suggestions?
Can’t you echo the shortcode in your template?
<?php echo do_shortcode('[shortcode option1="value1" option2="value2"]'); ?>
It literally just puts [shortcode option1=”value1″ option2=”value2″] on the screen. Just echoes the text.
Ok – duh – I didn’t even read it. If I use the PROPER shortcode for the widget I get the right output. 😀
Now my issue is that the custom widget I need to display there doesn’t have shortcode. Guess I will have build that into the plugin in order for it to work in my global sidebar.
