The answer is yes to all three questions. I am doing the same thing. You can check out http://womenpartner.org. I set mine up for 300 news bureaus. Any content I publish on the subsites show up on the main page to drive traffic to the posts.
1. Yep, just network activate the one theme, and set it as default via wp-config
define('WP_DEFAULT_THEME', 'classic');
2. Yes, via http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-mu-sitewide-tags/
3. That’s… harder to say. It MAY be. Is each magazine managed by separate people?
@jerrilynnb
That is a great example. Can you please explain how you managed this?
@thesuda I used a blog duplicating plugin, New Blog Templates, that I purchased from WPMU DEV. I later found there was free version.
I created a master template to ensure all the sites contained the same categories, plugins, menus and initial starter content. Then I just set up the sites using that template. Saved me dozens of hours of work.
You are able to customize the blogs and change text. It just made setting them up a snap so I didn’t have to add the header, menu, logo, widgets and other common aspects individually which would have been a pain.
Hi jerrilynnb
nice to see that you are able to make it,
just wanted to know
1. you have used wp multi site to create a main site, which pulls up posts from different wordpress sites in your network and automatically posts on to the main site front page right?
2. did you use any specific theme, or any theme would do it,
3. any settings needed on how to pull the latest posts from different subsites on to the main site
Yes, I am pulling in posts on the front page from my different sub blogs. The theme doesn’t matter. I’m using WordPress MU Sitewide Tags Pages to pull in the posts.
