WordPress Multisite Utilities Plugin

DESCRIPTION

A plugin to add some functionalities to your WordPress Multisite instance. This provides you some functions you can use in your plugin or template.

• Get recent posts from all of the blogs in your network:

get_recent_network_posts

USAGE

• Install the WordPress Multisite Utilities Plugin:

$ cd /var/www/your_wordpress_installation/wp-content/plugins

$ git clone https://github.com/dangtrinh/WordPress_Multisites_Utilities_Plugin

• Activate the plugin for your network (network only)
• In your home page template file (for example page-home.php), call the get_recent_network_posts function to get latest posts (6 posts by default) from your network. For example:

<?php
 $lastposts = get_recent_network_posts();
 foreach( $lastposts as $post):
?>
  <div class="col-1-3">
   <div class="blog-post">
    <div class="blog-post-thumbnail" style="background-image: url('<?php echo $post['thumb_url'];?>')"></div>
    <a href="<?php echo $post['permalink']; ?>">
    <div class="blog-post-content">
     <div class="content-container">
      <p class="date"><?php echo strftime("%m/%d/%Y", strtotime($post['the_post']->post_date)); ?></p>
      <h4><?php echo $post['the_post']->post_title; ?></h4>
      <p><?php $content = $post['the_post']->post_content; $trimmed_content = wp_trim_words( $content, 15, '...' ); echo $trimmed_content; ?></p>
     </div>
    </div>
    </a>
   </div>
  </div>
<?php 
 endforeach;
?>

• If your network using the Multisite Site Category plugin to categorize sites (site_category option), you can use the following function to get latest posts by category:

<?php
	$myCategoryLatestPosts = get_recent_network_post_by_cat(3, 'myCategory');
?>

Notes: the return data is an array of objects:

$posts = Array(

		[0] => Array(
				['the_post']	=> the_post_object,
				['thumb_url']	=> url_of_the_featured_image,
				['permalink']	=> permanent_link_of_the_post
			),

		[1] => Array(...),

... )

CONTRIBUTORS

Trinh Nguyen

LICENSE

GPLv2 or later