Robin

Hi mika, i know we have some how been on this discussion in lot of posts lately, and i know it is bad for seo, but sometime we dont want seo aspect,
Secondly i have used it and i know u must have used it 100’s of time too,
i dont see it crashing
i am not sure how u have used it in particular, but how autoblog does it for me is it populates my categories on sub site and than (i am assuming it becomes content of that particular site and i have used that content/category post in number of ways to be displayed)

can u put a workflow why is it bad other than SEO ?

hmm have you tried following this video
http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/docs/tutorials/creating-and-registering-your-own-field/

Since u r based in Australia it could be good to use a kiwi based company http://getshopped.org/ has a amazing eshopping plugin for wordpress, they have a free version you can give it a try.
or you can go in for more commercialized woo themes – woocommerce — great support as such.

yes u just have to go to your style.css (line 185)
and instead of float:right
change it to float:left
and that is it

copy and paste and replace

#container {
float: right;
margin: 0px -240px 4px 0px;
width: 100%;
}

as such i dont recommend editing the main files — best option is to create a child theme though (but since u dont want to do code 😛 use the method above 🙂 )

I did a project sometime back where i added extra fields if the above doesnt work you can take a cue from this code

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add_action( 'show_user_profile', 'extra_user_profile_fields' );
add_action( 'edit_user_profile', 'extra_user_profile_fields' );

function extra_user_profile_fields( $user ) { ?>
<h3><?php _e("Extra profile information", "blank"); ?></h3>

<table class="form-table">
<tr>
<th><label for="gender"><?php _e("Gender"); ?></label></th>
<td>
<input type="text" name="gender" id="gender" value="<?php echo esc_attr( get_the_author_meta( 'gender', $user->ID ) ); ?>" class="regular-text" />

<span class="description"><?php _e("Enter your Gender."); ?></span>
</td>
</tr><tr>
<th><label for="designation"><?php _e("Designation"); ?></label></th>
<td>
<input type="text" name="designation" id="designation" value="<?php echo esc_attr( get_the_author_meta( 'designation', $user->ID ) ); ?>" class="regular-text" />
<span class="description"><?php _e("Please enter your designation."); ?></span>
</td>
</tr></table>
<?php }

add_action( 'personal_options_update', 'save_extra_user_profile_fields' );
add_action( 'edit_user_profile_update', 'save_extra_user_profile_fields' );

function save_extra_user_profile_fields( $user_id ) {

if ( !current_user_can( 'edit_user', $user_id ) ) { return false; }

update_user_meta( $user_id, 'gender', $_POST['gender'] );
update_user_meta( $user_id, 'designation', $_POST['designation'] );
}

Dump the SQL
Go to your sites Tools > export (xml)
and copy the folders and do the installation on your new host update the sql, and import the xml file
(While updating sql make sure to properly do find and replace on DB from your old domain name to new ) as wordpress php db uses serialization strings — in lot of cases the theme tends to loose widgets (specially the text) (http://interconnectit.com/124/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/ )

http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_Multisite

This is because it is not getting saved into database,
i personally use ACF (http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/) they are like custom fields but more powerful and more flexible with good tutorial documentation/wiki to help you setup