Network Wide Content/Ads/Widgets

  • Resolved edtiley

    (@edtiley)


    12 years, 9 months ago

    Mika and Andrea have said many times that Multisite is meant as an independent series of blogs.

    And I’m doing just that, trying to build a community based on a network of independent blogs.

    Still, there are some things that I’d like to appear on all blogs in the network.

    Is there no way to place content and ads into the sidebars of all sites in the network? The ad thing is crucial in that it has to generate some income if only to support me in the poverty I’ve become accustomed to.

    TIA,

    Ed

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  • Thread Starter edtiley

    (@edtiley)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    I got no idea what this says exept NIKE.

    I think it’s possibly spammy, but I don’t speake Polish.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Is there no way to place content and ads into the sidebars of all sites in the network?

    Sure, hard code it into the themes.

    Thread Starter edtiley

    (@edtiley)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    I assume you mean something like editing sidebar.php (or its equivalent). That’s unfortunate because it limits choices of themes for users. I was planning to limit users to child themes of twenty-twelve anyhow, so…. That triggers two questions:

    Is it possible/practical to have grandchild themes? That is a child theme of a child theme, so the extended programming is separated from the styling.

    Is there a good example plugin that shows how to build a screen for the superAdmin Dashboard to be able to control ad rotation etc.?

    Thanks,

    Ed

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    12 years, 9 months ago

    That’s unfortunate because it limits choices of themes for users.

    Right, but the other ways are all things the site-admins can change (widgets and menus etc). If you wanted it in the FOOTER, you could hook into wp_footer() and have it as a function, but given that you’re limiting sites to the themes you’ve installed anyway….

    And no, you can’t have grandchildren, but you can just use a plugin to edit the CSS (Safe CSS, or the one that comes with Jetpack come to mind).

    Since they can’t edit the theme files anyway, this should work.

    Thread Starter edtiley

    (@edtiley)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    And no, you can’t have grandchildren

    Well, I do have two… <grin>

    That’s again unfortunate. My child theme is based on twenty-twelve, and the code changes would be the same for all the variations. Thus all the “enhanced” templates could be the main child, and its children could contain just the CSS, background images, etc. That way I’d be able to have just one copy of the templates to maintain.

    I guess I’m going to have to write plugin code that instantiates one or two additional sidebar areas, then hard codes the content for them instead of being able to widgetize them.

    In my wishlist dreams you’d be able to create a network site to clone from, and be able to specify what menus and sidebars from that site could be inherited by other sites.

    Sigh…

    Thank you for your help.

    Ed

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