Comments on: Virtual Multiblog for WordPress

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:30:24 +0000

Anyone tried VMB with WP 3.3 RC1?

By: Alvise Nicoletti

Alvise Nicoletti — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:13:41 +0000

Hi
This plugin really changed my life.

I guess if someone never did a php script to make useful summary of the installed blogs, now I’m trying to get “installed plugins” but I can’t find a plugins lister script that works in a page template.

By: Jose Luis

Jose Luis — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:07:29 +0000

Having an issue with WPSeo plugin (actually seems to affecta various others) when setting different constant for plugins directory on the blog conf:

The plugin (I understand correctly) uses:
define( ‘WPSEO_URL’, plugin_dir_url(__FILE__) );
to define a base constant to access his files (css, JS, etc)

Defining different WP_CONTENT_DIR works fine:
$vmb_const['WP_CONTENT_DIR'] = ABSPATH .’myblog’;

But as soon as I define different path/URL for plugins:
$vmb_const['WP_PLUGIN_DIR'] = ABSPATH .’wp-content-mysite/plugins’;
$vmb_const['WP_PLUGIN_URL'] = “http://”. $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"] . ‘/wp-content-mysite/plugins’;

The value of “plugin_dir_url” turns from:
http://mysite.com/wp-content/plugins/wpseo-yoast/

to
http://mysite/wp-content-mysite/plugins/home/webs/wordp...

this is… adds fullpath to what should be the new plugin URL !!!!

No idea if this hast to with somekind of bug of WP or something not correct when defining the constant at VMB, but I am now stack with it.

By: Jose Luis

Jose Luis — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 11:56:12 +0000

Hi Chris. We only have security plugings forced on all sites so can’t help. With other plugins that use cache we share a cachedir but normally cache file name or extensions varies including the URL and/or is in each options database, s no conflicts.
In any case I understand VMB has some constant variables that include site name or user, I imagine you should be able to conf the cache to something like “cachedir/”.VMB_USER but I have not tried it myself.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:54:53 +0000

Jose Luis – Thanks for your comment on Quick Cache. How do you point the cache directory to different paths on each site? I assume you have one plugin directory for all sites (plugin updates would be tedious otherwise)?

By: Jose Luis

Jose Luis — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:49:44 +0000

I had some issues “forcing” plugins to all VMB instances.
Perhaps due to the fact that out multiblog config is moved to /multiblog.

Solved it by modifying the required /mu-plugins/vmb-plugins-bootstrap.php for this feature:

if( defined( ‘VMB_DIR’ ) )
//from
//include( VMB_DIR . ‘/resources/vmb-plugins.php’ );
//to
include( ABSPATH . VMB_DIR . ‘/resources/vmb-plugins.php’ );

With this fix so far seems to be working fine with WP 3.2.1

By: Azurite

Azurite — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 04:05:03 +0000

I just upgraded VMB to the latest version as per the instructions, but when I visited the sites where I have my blogs installed, the WP install came up.

I’m afraid of going through the install again, even though so far it’s only asking for admin account information, the site title and an email address, because if there’s a subsequent screen that doesn’t want me to input the existing database information (i.e. it errors out), then I won’t know how to “reconnect” the VMB installs to their tables in my database.

Any advice?

By: Azurite

Azurite — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 04:02:56 +0000

I was using an older version of VMB, and I upgraded today as indicated in the instructions, but when I visit the two blogs I’d previously set up with VMB, they want me to go through the WordPress install again. It’s just asking for the basic site info, admin account, and email, but I’m afraid if I create the account, VMB won’t be able to see the existing tables that are in the database I use for these two blogs.

Anyone have any advice? I can easily make all this info the same, but I don’t know if there’ll be a follow-up screen that errors out if I try to put the existing database/table info in there.