Title: Restrictions when using multisite
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Restrictions when using multisite

 *  [pappfer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pappfer/)
 * (@pappfer)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restrictions-when-using-multisite/)
 * I’m just wondering why are there some negative restrictions when using multisite?!
 * I mention two which confuses me:
    – I can’t use external pages when multisite
   is enabled. So I can’t fetch my latest blog posts and display it on my main site
   as it worked before with [this method](http://codex.wordpress.org/Integrating_WordPress_with_Your_Website).
 * – My editors can’t embed videos to posts when multisite is enabled. I can’t set
   oembed either (no oembed option in settings -> media). Temporarily I’m using 
   Unfiltered MU plugin but I’d like a better solution.
 * I’m using WordPress 3.0.1 at the moment.
 * Any ideas?

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restrictions-when-using-multisite/#post-1795294)
 * > My editors can’t embed videos to posts when multisite is enabled.
 * Tell them to use the oembeds instead 🙂 They can just paste in the youtube URL
   and it’ll load! Done! 🙂 — [http://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds](http://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds)
 * > I can’t use external pages when multisite is enabled.
 * That should still work… Read this:
 * [http://wpengineer.com/1038/embed-wordpress-functions-outside-wordpress/](http://wpengineer.com/1038/embed-wordpress-functions-outside-wordpress/)
 *  Thread Starter [pappfer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pappfer/)
 * (@pappfer)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restrictions-when-using-multisite/#post-1795303)
 * Thanks for your reply!
    As I wrote in my first post oembed doesn’t work. The 
   option in settings -> media is not there.
 * I’ll try the solution about external pages soon but I think I already tried that
   way, too…
    Basically I’ll try the code below (source: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Integrating_WordPress_with_Your_Website](http://codex.wordpress.org/Integrating_WordPress_with_Your_Website))
   but instead of including wp-blog-header.php I’ll try it with wp-load.php. Let’s
   see how it works.
 * <?php
    require(‘/the/path/to/your/wp-blog-header.php’); ?> <?php $posts = get_posts(‘
   numberposts=10&order=ASC&orderby=post_title’); foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp();?
   > <?php the_date(); echo ““; ?> <?php the_title(); ?> <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
   <?php endforeach; ?>
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restrictions-when-using-multisite/#post-1795311)
 * oembed is built in. You don’t need to activate it. Just paste [http://youtube.com/watch?=kljasfskljdf](http://youtube.com/watch?=kljasfskljdf)
   or whatever the URL is. Should work for everyone, provided the embed is there.
   Works fine for me.
 * There’s a plugin to enable oEmbed discovery which will let it work with sites
   that aren’t known already by WordPress: [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/enable-oembed-discovery/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/enable-oembed-discovery/)
 *  [tom26](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tom26/)
 * (@tom26)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restrictions-when-using-multisite/#post-1795321)
 * multisites?
 * I can’t change theme for each site after I install multisites.
 * How to solve?
 * See website: [http://www.wtt123.com/News](http://www.wtt123.com/News)
    and
 * [http://www.wtt123.com/money](http://www.wtt123.com/money)
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restrictions-when-using-multisite/#post-1795327)
 * tom26 – Make a new topic. It’s rude to try and take over other people’s topics,
   esp when your problem is nothing like this one.
 *  Thread Starter [pappfer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pappfer/)
 * (@pappfer)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restrictions-when-using-multisite/#post-1795563)
 * Yeah, my editors saying that oembed is working fine. (it didn’t work for me in
   preview mode)
 * The other thing about the external page didn’t work, that link didn’t help. However
   after a longlong time I figured out how to make it work when multisite is enabled
   in WordPress 3.
 *     ```
       define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
       define('WP_INSTALLING', true);
       require('./blog/wp-load.php');
       ```
   
 * The 2nd line is really important, it doesn’t work without that. Now my question
   is how to tell get_posts() function that which blog’s posts should it read. So
   if I have multiple blog but I just want to get posts from one of them, how do
   I do it?
 *  [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * (@andrea_r)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restrictions-when-using-multisite/#post-1795564)
 * pull it via rss?
 *  Thread Starter [pappfer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pappfer/)
 * (@pappfer)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restrictions-when-using-multisite/#post-1795565)
 * That’s what I did so far… But that’s what I don’t want to do anymore.
 *  Thread Starter [pappfer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pappfer/)
 * (@pappfer)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restrictions-when-using-multisite/#post-1795594)
 * Any idea how to tell get_posts() (or another) function that which blog’s posts
   should it read?
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restrictions-when-using-multisite/#post-1795596)
 * switch_to_blog() before those calls can do it, though FYI, it can get fairly 
   processor intense if you do it a lot.

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