Hi @giorgosnl
Does the old post you copied the question from include any guidance or suggestions? Perhaps you could link to the post?
What do you mean by “implementing” ? The link shows a blog called Kevin Straw authored by Bill Blake.
– The blog directory shows a list of all blogs: http://my.telegraph.co.uk/blogs/
– Bill’s profile shows his activities: http://my.telegraph.co.uk/members/kevinstraw/blogs/
All this is default behaviour of BuddyPress when user blogs are enabled.
What will you “implement” ? š
Hi @henrywright
Sorry, here is the link. Not real a suggestion I can use. Might be custom work done.
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/implement-new-blogs-on-top-of-main-blog-blogging-network/
Hi @danbp
The member blogs are displayed within the main blog. If you click on “visit blog” you will see what I would like to “implement” š
Is this the kind of thing you’re looking for?
BuddyPress Multi Network
Thanks @henrywright but no, I want the member sites (subsites, http:example.com/blogs) , to use the same theme (header,footer,etc) as the main site, and not open as a separate site. Exactly the way http://my.telegraph.co.uk works
@giorgosnl – I am confused what you are asking to do.
You could have one blog where new users are all added to that blog as authors, or editors.. and that would be just one blog where multiple people can post..
or you could give each user a new blog (aka “site”) – and that would have a different blog at:
yourdotcom/kevins-site
yourdotcom/mandys-site
you could easily make it so all new user blogs had the same header and theme etc.. and use a plugin to display “sitewide blog posts” onto one page.. so you could have a page that showed each member’s blog posts (or snippets from each) and click to read the whole post, which would take them to the individuals blog..
or one main blog where each person is given access as a contributor, editor, admin.. whatever and they all post on just one main blog..
both are similar, both are easy with wp+bp… one takes the extra step of making wp multi-site… and a plugin to pull in sitewide blog posts onto a single page…
I want the member sites (subsites, http:example.com/blogs) , to use the same theme (header,footer,etc) as the main site, and not open as a separate site.
You can manage that kind of thing from the Network Admin Themes Screen.
Thanks guys. Let me try to explain again.
Rosie is a member of a multisite network at my.telegraph.co.uk
http://my.telegraph.co.uk/members/rosie/
Rosie has 19 friends, she is subscribed in 4 groups and also she has created 1 site
http://my.telegraph.co.uk/members/rosie/blogs/
If we now go and visit rosie’s site
http://my.telegraph.co.uk/roseanna/
we stay at main blog with a nice custom background. Is Not opening a separate blog
I believe this is a custom work done here and I would like to know if is possible to have the same functionality?
For sure it is possible.
My Telegraph
How to do that ? i’m expecting it is the exact same theme for main and user blogs.
we stay at main blog with a nice custom background. Is Not opening a separate blog
Actually I think this is indeed opening a separate blog/site… looks to me like this setup simply uses a global header override to display the main navigation over each person’s separate site.
Without digging into the source to look at plugins, I am guessing it is a wp with multi-site enabled, installed in a subdomain (my dot) – with buddypress to handle profiles and groups.
You could add a global header thing that puts whatever you want at the top and bottom of each person’s new ‘site’.. limit the theme options for users to twenty twelve or whatever.. which would give them a backend option to change a header and background (I think) – you’d still have your global header over top.. and this would give the illusion I think you are describing…
Thanks @djsteveb , sounds like a plan.
@danbp same theme is ok but still opens a separate blog
May I suggest you mixin
and see if that gives the final result you are looking for
BP Blog Author Profile Link
Buddypress Profile Widget for Blogs
I use “New Blog Templates” from wpmudev – but I think there is another similar one in the wp-repo
I use ” Ultimate Branding” from wpmudev to display some info / links / content in the footer across all of the sub aka “sites” that other users create on one of my networks. It has options for displaying your choice of stuff in the header across all sub blogs – so I guess you could put your main site nav buttons,etc there with it.. I imagine there is something similar to this in the wp-repo as well.
