Title: Widget availability / Popular Posts across Network
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Widget availability / Popular Posts across Network

 *  [kno](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kno/)
 * (@kno)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-availability-popular-posts-across-network/)
 * Hi everybody,
 * I have a couple questions about managing a multi-blog-network. Here’s what I 
   want to have when I’m done:
 * One main blog at [http://www.domain.com/](http://www.domain.com/), where
    - All posts from all blogs show up
    - A widget that displays the X **most active posters across the whole network**
    - A widget that displays a slideshow of **featured posts from across the whole
      network**
    - A “Categories” widget, that shows posts from all blogs within a couple of **
      network-wide categories**
    - A widget that displays a **network-wide message**
    - A widget that shows the **most popular posts across the whole network**
 * And the sub-blogs at [http://subblog.domain.com/](http://subblog.domain.com/),
   where
    - The network-wide-message widget cannot be deactivated
    - Other widgets may be edited/activated/deactivated/… to the blog owner’s liking
    - the network-wide categories cannot be edited/deleted
    - A global navigation bar at the top, where users can a) go back to the main
      blog and b) choose any author from a dropdown-menu to get to their blog directly
 * Now I’ve seen that there’s the sitewide tags plugin, but I see a potential problem
   with the popularity plugin, since – as far as I understand – posts are copied
   to the main blog, thus being rated there and on the sub-blog separately.
 * Also I haven’t found any ideas on how to make categories permanent on sub-blogs,
   or how to have network-wide and blog-only widgets side by side. While researching
   solutions I find myself locked up in tons of outdated wordpress-mu tutorials,
   this is really quite frustrating 🙂

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 *  [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * (@andrea_r)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-availability-popular-posts-across-network/#post-1651686)
 * Most of the tutorials out there for wpmu are still relevant. Yes, really.
 * there’s nothing you listed that would be done differently in 3.0 than it was 
   in wpmu. Really.

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## Tags

 * [multisite](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/multisite/)
 * [widget](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/widget/)

 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-availability-popular-posts-across-network/#post-1651686)
 * Status: not resolved

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