Get latest posts from all sites across multisite network – 2016

  • Modifiedcontent

    (@modifiedcontent)


    8 years, 3 months ago

    What is the latest, best solution to get recent posts from across a multisite network on your central home page?

    The network-latest-posts plugin is not a solution; it requires you give it blog ID’s from the blogs in your network.

    I am looking for an aggregator that automatically collects the latest posts from dozens, maybe hundreds of sites, without killing the server.

    The solution should probably use a combination of wp_get_sites() with get_last_updated().

    This proof-of-concept snippet is floating around:

    <?
$blogs = get_last_updated();
echo '
<h1>Last posts in network</h1>
';
foreach ($blogs AS $blog) {
	echo "
<h2>".$blog["domain"].$blog["path"]."</h2>
";
	switch_to_blog($blog["blog_id"]);
		$lastposts = get_posts('numberposts=1');
		foreach($lastposts as $post) :
			setup_postdata($post);
			the_title();
		endforeach;
	restore_current_blog();
}
?>

    This one from 2011 has some kind of solution, but it is producing an annoying syntax error and I can’t figure out how to fix it:

    http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/11/wordpress-multisite-practical-functions-methods/

    So what is the latest? Has anyone else worked on this? Can someone put this together, point me in the right direction?

    I have another old multisite network latest posts aggregator script that I could post, but it looks very messy.

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  • BeardedGinger

    (@joshlimecuda)

    8 years, 1 month ago

    I’m currently using the following on a small project. This is a controlled project with only a few sites and this approach probably wouldn’t be ideal for a larger multisite network

    function as_latest_posts() {

	$as_latest_posts = array();

	$args = array(
		'offset' 	=> 1
	);

	$blogs = wp_get_sites( $args );

	// Get the 5 latest posts from each blog
	foreach( $blogs as $blog ) {

		switch_to_blog( $blog['blog_id'] );

			$args = array(
				'post_type' 		=> 'post',
				'no_found_rows' 	=> true,
				'posts_per_page' 	=> 5
			);

			$as_posts = new WP_Query( $args );

			if( $as_posts->have_posts() ) {
				while( $as_posts->have_posts() ) {
					$as_posts->the_post();

						global $post;

						$as_latest_posts[] = $post;
				}
			}

			wp_reset_postdata();

		restore_current_blog();
	}

	// Get all the posts returned and sort them based on post date
	$sortPosts = array();

	foreach( $as_latest_posts as $latest_post ) {
	    foreach( $latest_post as $key=>$value ){

	        if(!isset($sortPosts[$key])){
	            $sortPosts[$key] = array();
	        }
	        $sortPosts[$key][] = $value;

	    }
	}

	$orderby = 'post_date';

	array_multisort( $sortPosts[$orderby], SORT_DESC, $as_latest_posts );

	// Limit the results to the first 5 from the array
	$as_latest_posts = array_slice( $as_latest_posts, 0,5 );

	return $as_latest_posts;

}
    ojas.ray

    (@ojasray-1)

    7 years, 8 months ago

    I am also trying to accomplish the same thing – but have no clue how to implement your code – any help?

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