September 22, 2008 Update: This plugin has now been superseded by the New Blogs Templates plugin
I’ve seen a lot of discussion on how site admins can set defaults for new blogs created in a WordPress Mu environment. Most of the solutions involve figuring out which option you want to change and manually updating the schema.php (ie – hacking the core) or using a plugin file where you manually type in the update_option() command for the option you want to set. I decided to create a plugin that would provide an administrative interface to most of the blog settings, so that site admins wouldn’t have to mess with files. No code knowledge needed.
Anyway, I uploaded the files over at WPMU Dev. Take a crack at them and let me know what you think
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Cool. This and plugin commander would make a great tool set.
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can’t we just use this plugin from mu-plugins? so no plugin commander needed?
They really do 2 different things. This one only lets you set the default options for new blogs, and it doesn’t let you set the default plugins. Plug in commander will let you manage all the plugins, and not just in a default for new blogs way. Make sense?
I udnerstand what you say, but I didn’t get what pkeung was meaning… why would he want to combine these 2 plugins? or did he mean both used together are great? ahhh, that makes sense now.
sorry I just had thought he found a way to combine these two plugins which was not obvious to me, but it seems he was just suggesting that using both is cool :-)
Yep, that’s what he’s saying.
It would be nice to try this but the download ling just has the readme file
Hey Tony – try again. Looks like they changed their download interface and only allow a single file download now. So, I’ve zipped up the readme with the php file.
I am *really* interested in this same plugin, with a few additional abilities:
- control the # of default pages
- content on each page
- customized fields on those pages
- and default categories + subcategories
A lot to ask – am probably willing to pay.
@JoeS
you might want to try additionally using this plugin: http://plugins.paidtoblog.com/wpmu-blog-defaults/
@DeannaS
what about incorporating some of those features into your gui? See this forum post too: http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=9265
Thanks for the response.
I haven’t tried that one yet. From the list of functions it offers, it didn’t seem that helpful to my needs. Did I miss something on it?
Hey Joe – we’re working on getting our WPMU install deployed for the next few weeks – but I swear I’ll get back to plugin improvements once I get through this launch.
I got default Pages + Default Categories & Sub-Cats. Would still be interested in the rest.
Thanks DeannaS!