Title: [Feedback] WordPress Menu/widgets Multisite
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Feedback] WordPress Menu/widgets Multisite

 *  Resolved [MyrddinDE](https://wordpress.org/support/users/myrddinde/)
 * (@myrddinde)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feedback-wordpress-menuwidgets-multisite/)
 * Hello,
 * I am running a Multisite (mmo-game.eu) and sometimes I need to change the Menu
   and it is an annoying task to have to do that for all sites in the Network.
    
   The same is true for widgets. If you want to change a text at the sidebar you
   have to do it per domain.
 * I’d love an option that reads like:
    [ ] use Menu called [……] from Blog [ ] (
   ID] [ ] use Widgets from Blog [ ] (ID]
 * Or an option to sync menus/widgets.
 * Haven’t seen a plugin that can do it. Copied widget settings with “YD Network-
   wide options” don’t work with custom widgets and menus don’t work at all sadly.
 * This sounds like a “simple” suggestion with a lot of benefit for people like 
   me who are constantly tweaking their site.
 * Thanks for reading.
 * Michael

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feedback-wordpress-menuwidgets-multisite/#post-2680996)
 * Well. Yes.
 * Multisite = Multiple, separate, sites. Look at WordPress.com.
 * The sites are intended to be 100% separate, save using the same DB and having
   access to the same user base.
 *  Thread Starter [MyrddinDE](https://wordpress.org/support/users/myrddinde/)
 * (@myrddinde)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feedback-wordpress-menuwidgets-multisite/#post-2680999)
 * Well, if you have the same user base, why not enable the same menu? 😀
 * Its if you like the branding of subsites, etc. Not like multiple separated blogs
   are the only use for that. I am using it to separate subjects for my visitors…
   for example to have wow users not get useless posts about skyrim or wildstar,
   mass effect or witcher …
    the same things you mentioned are true for that … common
   user database, ease of adminsitration, plugins, themes … so I don’t get why it
   is not intended to make it possible to take this one step further. Not like people
   HAVE to use the option, just like I prefer to have my sites, while separate still
   as one site.
 * But thanks for the reply.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feedback-wordpress-menuwidgets-multisite/#post-2681001)
 * Because the sites are separate. I totally get what you’re saying, and I’m just
   explaining the design 🙂
 * Anyway: [http://wpmututorials.com/plugins/networkwide-menu/](http://wpmututorials.com/plugins/networkwide-menu/)
 * > Its if you like the branding of subsites, etc. Not like multiple separated 
   > blogs are the only use for that. I am using it to separate subjects for my 
   > visitors
 * I … wouldn’t use Multisite for it. Custom Post types, maybe.
 *  Thread Starter [MyrddinDE](https://wordpress.org/support/users/myrddinde/)
 * (@myrddinde)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feedback-wordpress-menuwidgets-multisite/#post-2681003)
 * Yeah, I have some custom blogs by others there, too. I also get what you are 
   saying, about keeping things separate and can understand where you draw the border.
 * I have been searching for Network menus for a while and always grew frustrated
   finding no solutions, just others who were looking for the same.
 * The link you showed always eluded my search 😀 Thanks, appreciate the help!
 * kind regards,
 * Michael
 *  Thread Starter [MyrddinDE](https://wordpress.org/support/users/myrddinde/)
 * (@myrddinde)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feedback-wordpress-menuwidgets-multisite/#post-2681004)
 * Ah well, have the same issue as the commenters on the site. Followed the instructions,
   but see no effect.
 * Can just hope that someone takes more than 15 min into coding this option and
   doesn’t get grumpy when people don’t understand the instructions 😀
 *  [CGAdmin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cgadmin/)
 * (@cgadmin)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feedback-wordpress-menuwidgets-multisite/#post-2681185)
 * I’ve been messing with this sort of issue for pretty much the whole day and I
   think I have figured out how to create a basic menu for each “child” site based
   on one “master” menu on the main site (or even any other site you choose to place
   it).
 * It might take us a bit of hashing to get it to work right because I am in the
   infancy of the operation, but I’m pleased with my results so far.
 * The key is to utilize the same underlying theme for all sites (which it appears
   you are doing to “brand” the child sites as I am). I personally like to use two
   custom menus: public-menu and user-menu. Obviously one is for logged in users
   and the other is for anonymous users.
 * What we need to do is tell each child site where to look as it builds its menu
   structure. I’m sure you have discovered that even if you name all the menus on
   each child site the same, it creates its own instance of that menu (which defaults
   to blank). As a caveat, I have been messing around with changing the default 
   structure of the menus as well, but haven’t had much luck.
 * Anyway, in the header when you call your custom menu, add a `switch_to_blog` 
   call in before you load the menu. This will make the server call up the same 
   menu on all child sites. The unfortunate part is that the user then is unable
   to add new menu options or make changes. I’m still working on that part. The 
   cool part is that the child sites aren’t required to have any menus defined at
   all.
 * Here is the code I have in my header:
 *     ```
       <?php if (is_user_logged_in()) {
       	switch_to_blog(1);
       	wp_nav_menu(array(
       		'echo' => true,
       		'theme_location' => 'user-menu',
       		'container_class' => 'nav-center'
       	));
       	restore_current_blog();
       } else {
       	switch_to_blog(1);
       	wp_nav_menu(array(
       		'echo' => true,
       		'theme_location' => 'public-menu',
       		'container_class' => 'nav-center'
       	));
       	restore_current_blog();
       } ?>
       ```
   
 * Does this help?
 *  Thread Starter [MyrddinDE](https://wordpress.org/support/users/myrddinde/)
 * (@myrddinde)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feedback-wordpress-menuwidgets-multisite/#post-2681186)
 * Yes thanks, I tried this long ago, but did not find the cortect spot, where to
   change this in my Artisteer generated Theme.
 * But here is what I ended up doing, pretty similar to what you said above.
 * I copied the original theme to a new folder, edited the style.css to give the
   theme a new name and below instructions into the header.php (I tried thsi initiall
   in the menu php)
 * mmo85 -> mmo85nm
    edit style.css edit header.php
 * Credit goes [to Abland at Artisteer Forums](http://www.artisteer.com/Default.aspx?post_id=191442&p=forum_post&forum_id=13)
 *     ```
       global $blog_id;
       $current_blog_id = $blog_id;
       switch_to_blog(1);
   
       echo theme_get_menu(array(
       'source' => theme_get_option('theme_menu_source'),
       'depth' => theme_get_option('theme_menu_depth'),
       'menu' => 'primary-menu',
       'class' => 'art-hmenu'
       )
       );
       switch_to_blog($current_blog_id);
       ```
   
 * This way I can have the old style and also a network version for select sites.
 * Works like a charm now!
 * [http://www.mmo-game.eu/](http://www.mmo-game.eu/) <- Main Site
    [http://www.myrddin.de/](http://www.myrddin.de/)
   <- Subsite with network Menu (Domain Mapping) [http://album.mmo-game.eu/](http://album.mmo-game.eu/)
   <- Subsite with network Menu
 *  [CGAdmin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cgadmin/)
 * (@cgadmin)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feedback-wordpress-menuwidgets-multisite/#post-2681187)
 * Good looking sites.
 * You can change your code to the following and get the same function if you care
   about keeping your code as short as possible:
 *     ```
       switch_to_blog(1);
   
       echo theme_get_menu(array(
       'source' => theme_get_option('theme_menu_source'),
       'depth' => theme_get_option('theme_menu_depth'),
       'menu' => 'primary-menu',
       'class' => 'art-hmenu'
       ));
   
       restore_current_blog();
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [MyrddinDE](https://wordpress.org/support/users/myrddinde/)
 * (@myrddinde)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feedback-wordpress-menuwidgets-multisite/#post-2681188)
 * Thanks for the feedback.
 * I’ll look into it 🙂
 *  [lovemegood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lovemegood/)
 * (@lovemegood)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feedback-wordpress-menuwidgets-multisite/#post-2681211)
 * Are you placing this code in the main site theme or in your first multisite created
   site theme?
 *  Thread Starter [MyrddinDE](https://wordpress.org/support/users/myrddinde/)
 * (@myrddinde)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feedback-wordpress-menuwidgets-multisite/#post-2681212)
 * I have 2 themes, 1 for sites that use the network menu and one for the ones that
   don’t.
 * The child site theme needs to have the switch code. The code does instead of 
   reading the menu from the current blog switch to the blog with id 1 and reads
   the menu then switches back for the content to the current site.
 *  [lovemegood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lovemegood/)
 * (@lovemegood)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feedback-wordpress-menuwidgets-multisite/#post-2681213)
 * I was able to do te menu without hardcoding. I just duplicated the mainsite database
   with the appropriate “wp_#_” for the following databases using the find replace
   on text edit on mac:
 * wp_commentmeta
    wp_comments wp_links wp_options wp_postmeta w_posts wp_terms 
   wp_term_relationships wp_term_taxonomy
 * This dup’ed all my post, menu, categories, etc. But Now I want an easy way to
   duplicate my widgets, a hardcode I guess.
    Each new site I create is in a different
   langauage. Same site, just translated.

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