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Thanks for you help Mika. Good news about fixing the email.

I would plan to have 3 different roles:
1. basic subscriber – can’t do much but edit their profile & checkout at subsite woocommerce pages.

2. *author: can edit and create their own posts on a blog page I would create for them.

3. admin: an admin for a subsite (choose from some preset themes, change header image etc etc)

* What I can’t get my head around is how to convert or upgrade an existing subscriber to create their own blog if I don’t have a record of their email details etc. they used when they signed-up…

Maybe there’s a way to get a record of the info but I don’t know how.

Thanks for confirming that guys (never had a site with registered users before).

Well I unplugged the plugins… bad news. It looks like it’s woocommerce that’s causing the missing toolbar 🙁

This is really annoying – It took ages getting it play nicely without screwing-up my styling.

Anyone else had this issue? Any solutions, apart from finding another ecommerce program?

AAAaaaaarrrrgggghhhh!!! The random avatar you chose for me is bang on today 🙂

Update – decided to have another go, and noticed a little checkmark box at the bottom of the broadcast settings page in superadmin…

“Override child post permalinks” I checked that and Bingo! Broadcast posts now linking back to the original subsites like I expected…

I feel like such a dork.

But in my defense, that setting was easily overlooked, and the documentation (such as it is) is less than clear, like most plugins.

The links don’t show as “pretty” but site_a/p123, but I can live with that, unless there’s a way to fix?

Anyway – thanks yet again for your help & support on this

Cheers

Yeah, thanks for confirming that, but that’s what I’ve been trying, and for some reason it doesn’t make any difference on my site? It’s setup as subdomains, not folders if that makes any odds?

Just wondered if I’d missed something or was doing something wrong…

Thanks

Thanks Mika.

My background is more graphic design, and my knowledge of “coding” & php is extremely limited. Most of the wp codex might as well be written in Chinese for someone like me.

My main aim with the multisite is to create a small “community” where others can create and manage their own blogs. I want to have a “magazine-style” page on the root/home site, where I can pick & choose articles to feature from the various sub-sites.

The stumbling block for me seems to be the featured images.

I’ve used Artisteer (a wysiwyg wp layout tool) with an add-on called Templateer, which gives me the perfect magazine options. For example, I can create a page which features 4 different categories. I can also adjust the featured article length, and more importantly the featured image sizes.

However, this template uses “tim thumb” which I understand has issues with the multisite format.

I’ve been trying a combination of the mu broadcast, sitewide tags and featured posts plugins. I can now add featured posts to the main site blog OK, but if I try to use my magazine style template, the images don’t show up (tim thumb?).

If I stick to the default templates then I don’t have enough control over the featured article placement and appearance, especially image sizing.

To get around this, I tried “broadcasting” some posts to the main blog, then re-publishing them with a new category. These do show-up in the magazine template with the images, but as you might expect, clicking to read more takes you to my edited version on the home site and not the original article on the sub-site…

I had therefore been looking for a way to edit the permalinks of my re-published articles on a post by post basis to point to the original source. But this seems impossible? Every permalink has the prefix “/blog/” or another prefix of my choosing. I’m now wondering if I should create my main site as a “sub-site” which will give more options regarding permalinks?

Don’t really know where to go next with this. The featured posts plugin is almost workable, but I need more control to re-size images to a standard sizes, as the articles will have been created by other authors…….

Sorry for the length and dullness of this post!

Cheers

THANK YOU – I think that plugin is exactly what I was looking for 🙂
Cheers!

Fixed!
Turned out I needed to make a small mod to one of the includes files in the theme relating to “tim thumb”

Thank god I didn’t need to go through all the .htaccess / override stuff.

Thanks for getting back to me though. Very excited about the possibilities multisite offers 🙂