As many of you are no doubt aware, for the past couple of months we’ve been running a kind of Question and Answer forum here at WPMU.org.
We’ve been asking our readers to send in questions about WordPress, and every few days we have selected the most interesting submissions and published them here on the blog. The wise WordPress geniuses among our readership have then pitched in with their own answers and suggestions.
Calling all Multisite gurus. Today’s installment of the WordPress Q & A Sessions should be right up your alley.
A reader named Brian has submitted the following question to us:
I want to use WordPress Multisite to create something similar to Etsy and Artfire. How would I completely hide all WordPress admin options in the dashboard (for subdomain sites), and create a custom admin page that limits each store owner to just a few basic storefront customization options?
Thank you!
-Brian
This is a question that we’ve heard from several multisite users over at the WPMU DEV forums. Have you attempted something like this yourself?
The WordPress Q & A sessions continue! We’re collecting interesting questions about WordPress from our readers, then publishing them here on the blog, in an effort to harvest the best problem-solving skills that the WPMU community can muster. Get involved here – there are glorious prizes and lots of karma points to be won.
Monday’s WordPress Question
Do you know a thing or two about embedding videos in WordPress? If so, take heed, because a member of the WPMU community is in need of some good ole’ fashioned WordPress wisdom.
WordPress caching has been a bit of a hot topic round here this week. We originally received a question from one of our readers, asking which is the best caching plugin to use on a WordPress site. This kicked off a pretty solid discussion, which we then followed up with a second article on the best caching plugins, as voted by our readers.
Finally, I thought we should aggregate the results from both of those articles, and bring a little pie chart lovin’ to your Friday afternoon.
Thursday’s WordPress Q & A Session covers some pretty familiar territory: dynamic header images.
A reader of this blog named Allan has graced us with today’s question, in the hopes that some of you WordPress magicians might be able to help him out. He asks:
How do you display a different header image in WordPress, according to which page is currently being viewed?
Attention ninjas: It’s time for another Q & A session, so break out those WordPress skills and get ready to help a fellow WPMU reader solve his problem.
We received today’s question from a WPMU reader named Mike, who’s trying to cut some unnecessary weight from his WordPres site. He says:
I need to completely disable comments on my site, for both posts and pages, with no remnants of a comment system ever being there. I also need clean, empty pages with no sidebars anywhere on my site.
What is the simplest and least-technical way of accomplishing this?
-Mike
A couple of weeks back, a WPMU reader sent us a question: Which is the best caching plugin to use on my WordPress site?
The Q & A article that we published got a pretty interesting conversation started, which we felt warranted a follow up post, and hopefully some more quality discussion on caching solutions for WordPress.
By the way, if you haven’t fully wrapped your head around the concept of caching and why it’s important to your WordPress site, a little background reading might be in order. We’ve got a great article here on the basics of caching.
On with the show
We’ve got another question for you all WordPress magicians out there in the WPMU community. A reader of this blog by the name of Rick has sent us this query, as part of our WordPress Q & A Sessions. He asks:
Is there a solid, easy-to-use plugin for adding custom typefaces to a WordPress site? There seem to be a number of competing technologies and I’m not sure which is the best solution.
How can I add custom fonts to my WordPress blog in the easiest and least-technical manner possible?
-Rick
The latest installment of our WordPress Q & A Sessions is about older plugins and what you should do with them.
Today’s question comes from Katrina, a WPMU reader and owner of the site Kat’s Cafe. She asks . . .
How should one deal with an older (but much-loved) plugin that is no longer being updated by the developer? Should you simply uninstall it and find a replacement? Or should you try to do some updating yourself?
What’s the safest way to tweak a plugin, without putting your site at risk?
-Katrina
As most of you are no doubt aware, we’re hard at work trying to make WPMU.org a more interactive experience this year.
In 2012 we aim to involve you folks in the blog as much as possible. An important part of this strategy is our WordPress Q & A sessions, where we try to connect members of our community who can help each other solve their WordPress problems.
If you haven’t been following our Q & A sessions, these are some of the questions that we’ve received from our readers so far:
