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Awesome! A billion thanks James and Mika! I really appreciate it. 🙂

Ahh! I see! That makes sense. Thanks for the clarification.

For some reason, I thought sample.css was related to lasers.php… Now I feel silly. 😀

If you don’t mind me asking one last question… How would I go about using toolbox_super_laser_defense() function? Do I need to copy/paste the method into my functions.php file and/or include bonus/lasers.php in the calling PHP file?

I tried calling toolbox_super_laser_defense() from the functions.php file, but got an error… I was thinking maybe WP included that method in the global scope automatically, but it looks like I might have to do what I mentioned in my last paragraph above, no?

Thanks again for your help!!! I really appreciate it. 🙂

Cheers,
Micky

Thanks Ipstenu! I really appreciate the help. 🙂

I am finding that there’s a ton of articles on the net about how to secure a WP site, but not as many that are specific to a WP multisite install.

Anyway, thanks a billion for all of your pro help! You rock!!!! 😀

Cheers,
Micky

Doi! I found a solution.

Screen options! That’s one area I hadn’t explored yet.

Cheers,
Micky

Thanks a billion Ipstenu!

That would only work for SOME sites. If you do domain mapping, you don’t always want people to log in from maindomain.com :/

Great point! I did not think of that. In our case we are using the “folder” setup, so having the one, primary, login location would work well. If I knew more about WP, and had the time, I would consider writing a plugin to handle redirection from “sub” login pages to the main one.

A proper MultiSite security plugin would be something to enable network wide, but would only have settings etc on the /wp-admin/network pages. Actually that would be REALLY COOL for a lot of plugins, but since most are written for single site, it doesn’t happen as much as I wish 🙂

Oh man, that would be awesome! Do you happen know of any off the top of you head? Every security plugin I have found has been single site setups. 🙁

What’s the best way to search for MultiSite compatible/specific plugins on the WP plugin site (or other site)? From what I can tell, it looks like the best way to do this on the WP site is by tag:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/multisite

Thanks again Ipstenu!

@xzoom: That’s a great question.

I personally think my users would get annoyed at having to type a captcha each time they logged in; but then again, all of our users are “trusted”.

If we had registrations open to the public, I would definitely consider implementing both login lockdown and the captcha.

What do others think?

Hello Ming! Thanks so much for your reply and pro help! I really appreciate it! 🙂

Have you done an analysis of your current blog presentation and how you want the new presentation to be?

I am in the process of doing that now… Unfortunately, deadlines dictate that I do several things at once here.

Taxonomy? What is your ideal taxonomy going forward? Categories, sub-categories, tags, etc.

Great questions!

Each blogger should have their own set of categories. We don’t want one big pile of categories/subcategories shared by everyone.

Tags, maybe, but that’s not something we’re banking on (some of our bloggers have a hard enough time categorizing posts).

Media strategy? Do you want readers to be isolated into “columns/bogs” or do you want more of a free flow of information and cross navigation?

Hmm, well, currently each blogger has their own section. I’m pretty sure we want to maintain this type of structure.

We would want a homepage that has everyone’s posts (or, depending on how we set things up and the limitations of the WP system) we’ll just have a static landing homepage that has links to each blogger’s blog (like you see now with our ExpressionEngine setup).

In terms of navigation, I want to keep it simple. We’ll probably want one main horizontal nav across the top that links to each blog, and/or a sidebar tease that links to each blogger’s blog (with avatars).

Our goal is to keep it simple without trying to push the boundries (in terms of custom code and mods) of the theme we have chosen.

Itemized features? About Author, widgets, feeds, etc. What do you need, what is shared, what is custom per column/blog.

For each blog, we’ll want widgets that relate to that blog (in terms of most popular/commented/emails/other). As it stands currently, there’s not much connection between our bloggers except for the “Most Popular” box in the sidebar. We’re good with this type of separation.

Really, the only time we would want everyone in one pile is on the homepage (and this is not even a requirement).

Publishing workflow? What is your publishing workflow? Authors and Editors? Comment moderation, etc?

Authors, admins and Guest bloggers.

We don’t want our guest bloggers to have access to much other than an entry form, and their stuff will be moderated.

Admins should have access to and will be able to post to any blog (we’re talking WPMS here) and authors will be limited to their own blog (i.e. we don’t want bloggers posting to other blogs unless they are specifically allowed to do so).

We’re planning on using Disqus for comments and we would like to use a Disqus plugin to import comments into the page for SEO reasons. I am hoping that this is not going to be a tedious setup if we use MS (in other words, a global Disqus setup would be nice).

Comments will be allowed without initial moderation.

These are just some high level questions off the top of my head that should be considered before determining the blog platform/configuration. Based on what information you have presented so far, I’m not sure I would be able to make determination as to use Multisite or not.

This has been very helpful! Thanks so much for the help.

Based on my answers, I am leaning towards a MS setup.

On top of what I said above, I am realizing that I will want each blogger to have the ability to create Links, Pages, Features, Boxes and Banners without having to see other blogger’s Links, Pages, Features, Boxes and Banners.

Additionally, I also like the thought of each blogger having their own Media section.

The more I play with MS, the more I think it’s going to be the right choice for us.

The only major drawback I can see is having to export/import theme settings from blog to blog. Also, it looks like author management might get a bit tricky; but with ExpressionEngine we have to jump through similar hoops, so there’s not a lot of surprise here.

Hehe, it sounds like I talked myself into WPMS! I hope I don’t have a bad case of tunnel vision. 🙁

Thoughts?

Thanks again Ming and Ipstenu! I really appreciate it!

Cheers,
Micky