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About 80% of Multisite users, at the last check (based on people who reply to such surveys), use Multisite for multiple, separate, sites

Who are these people? I really can’t imagine many cases where that would make much sense, except maybe a big hosting company or a blog farm advertising scam.

Those 80% are probably lots of kids in basements starting their own blog farms that never go anywhere.

WordPress is developed by and for PHP tinkerers, piling on features on top of “what it is” without much thought to what it could be, how it could be used in the real world.

Creating a members blog feels like a illogical workaround that will only cause problems down the line. It still wouldn’t help make a network-wide view of latest posts etc. easier to accomplish.

Apologies for hijacking/derailing this thread. Was the original question answered? In general, is there a way to make WP_user_query work in multisite, maybe in combination with the blog_id switch stuff?

This also works:

<?php

 $querystr = "
    SELECT $wpdb->users.*
    FROM $wpdb->users
    ORDER BY $wpdb->users.user_registered DESC LIMIT 10
 ";

 $listmembers = $wpdb->get_results($querystr, OBJECT);

 ?>
 <?php if ($listmembers): ?>
 <?php global $member; ?>
 <?php foreach ($listmembers as $member): ?>
 <?php setup_postdata($member); ?>
<p><? echo $member->display_name ?></p>
 <?php endforeach; ?>
 <?php else: ?>
    <h2>You got nuthin...</h2>
 <?php endif; ?>

Again, are there arguments against this approach? Is there a better way?

To get from here to the blog specific data raskull needed is another story of course. These multisite functions and methods could be useful.

I’m trying to figure out the same thing and it is utterly ridiculous that this should require complicated custom coding or plugins.

Automattic apparently developed multisite for the WordPress.com use case; a network of blogs that are completely independent of eachother. That use case would make sense for maybe a big hosting company.

Normal people in the real world will almost never use multisite that way. Most will try to use WP multisite as a network for an organization or company, only to find out the hard way that letting “users” interact on the platform is virtually impossible.

Yes, being forced to add all users to the main blog is “a semantically sad use of the multisite framework”. In my case the main blog is used for organization news and announcement, so it’s the last place I want to have overrun by members/”users”.

So we’re supposed to use half-baked plugins and hacks to fix the mess again.

Can anyone give a basic example of a custom query to list all users in the ‘users’ database table?

Thanks for the quick response.

I found my custom code solution again. It’s an edit in function wpmu_welcome_user_notification in ms-functions.php – that file is still there after all.

Where does that function fit it? Where is it “called” in the registration process? Should I replace it with something else so I can use the excellent-looking SB Welcome Email plugin?

Buddypress has been a constant source of frustation for me as well. At one point they changed all the template tags, making it pretty much impossible for me to upgrade my heavily customized theme.

BP development was going off the rails anyway imho, so I’m phasing it out, but I still have too much code that depends on BP.