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Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: Multi site form / database managementAs a side note we also found a plugin that would take care of front end user submissions via forms (for product submissions). This would take care of fooling around with MySQL and PHP to achieve the same result. It’d cost about $200 to get all the features we need (when we are ready to upgrade our site), but it sure beats (for the time being) using a service like caspio or light spoke! We could do it from scratch with PHP/MYSQL and a form plugin… but when you have Arvixe as a web host you can pretty much kiss that ability goodbye (ugh).
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: Multi site form / database managementThank you for you in depth response. I have found several of those links and plugins to be very helpful. My business partner and I are almost done with our multisite. I have to say that I like drupal for many reasons over wordpress and wordpress overall drupal for other reasons. Overall WordPress has worked out better; especially when it comes to creating a business oriented multisite.
Our last hurdle was creating a global template that we could use for a customer account that could be exported and used for new customers via plugin, thereby minimizing the amount of work involved in creating a customer acount. We tried about 5-6 plugins for cloning/copying and import/export but none of them worked right, unless we overlooked one (tried wordpress import, ns-cloner, add-cloned-site-for-wmpu (batch), duplicator, wp-clone-by-wp-academy etc). They just caused problems really.
So what we have resorted to doing is creating a new site/user, using a the global theme, creating new pages, new menus then copying and pasting from the global page into the new page. It takes about 10-20 minutes, but i’d imagine developing a plugin to do something similar without any coding/compatibility issues would be pretty difficult. Unless you’ve heard of a different way that doesn’t cost $100+? lol
The advanced custom fields plugin was definitely very useful too, per your suggestion, thank you. Again thank you for your in depth response. If it weren’t for people well-versed in wordpress like you, people not so well-versed would be screwed! Lol thanks again CFS!