Rob
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Ron,
I’ve confirmed that the categories in my tags blog are identical to those in the source blog, including case usage, yet duplicate (but empty) categories are being created with each new post or post update.
-Rob
Just curious – why do your categories have parents in the tags blog? SWT does not assign parents to any categories that it creates.
The categories being copied over by SWT from the source site’s posts were all on the same level when viewed on the tags blog, so I edited them to match the hierarchy of the source’s categories. Does SWT intentionally not preserve category hierarchies?
To be clear, in my case, SWT is indeed placing the posts in the hierarchical categories, but is also creating duplicate (empty) categories on the root level.
I too am experiencing duplicate (but fortunately empty) categories being created in the tags blog. I’m using SWT v0.4.1.1 and WP 3.2.1.
In reference to the questions above, my posts have multiple categories assigned, and the categories have parent categories in the tags blog, and all categories assigned to the post(s) from within the source blog are being duplicated in the tags blog.
Thanks in advance for any help with this.
Update: I found a solution to this issue, or at least as a workaround. The set of custom fields occurring within the write panel and associated with the template must be saved individually, prior to Update/Publish of the entire post, in order for the associated post meta to be copied. This did not occur to me as an available option b/c I had disabled the separate custom field Save button from within the CFT settings.
While this isn’t an ideal solution, as it requires authors to take this additional imperative step, it seems to work just fine. Nonetheless, I believe this essentially a shortcoming of CFT, or perhasp the relationship between CFT and SWT, and should not discourage anyone from using SWT, as it’s a great plugin!
Sidenote: Each of the posts in my current project are geo-tagged using GeoMashup. With SWT, I was able to copy that info over to the main site as well, simply by addding geo_latitude and geo_longitude within the Post Meta box in settings. Much appreciated!
Ron,
A clarification re my reply above: the parts of the post that ARE getting saved to the subdomain (and therefore also copied over to the main site) are those parts that are not custom fields originally created from within Custom Field Template settings….regardless of whether the custom fields are listed in the SWT settings Post Meta box or not.As a result, I’m led to believe that this is issue related to the interaction between SWT and CFT plugins. (Could it be filtering issue of some sort? ) Since I already have two subdomains filled with posts, I want to be able to preserve the custom fields and their respective data, all of which I’m trying to send to the main site…so I’m reluctant to disable the CFT plugin (and have my custom fields go away). I’m going nuts trying to figure this out.
Thanks again for your help.
Ron, Thank you very much for your reply.
I’m not sure what that plugin does but get_post_meta is a core WP function.
The Custom Field Template “adds the default custom fields on the Write Post/Page”. Basically, you set up your desired custom fields via the plugin, name that template, and apply it to the post/page panel as desired.
For example, if you want custom fields institution & department to be copied with the post then add the following to the SWT settings post meta box
OK, that is the way that I added them to the post meta box, linting the meta keys/names as you’ve stated, with one per line, but no luck. Still none of it gets saved upon Update/Publish. The pasrt of the post that do get saved (and copied over from the subdomain to the main site) are the Title/Permalink, main content, and the meta info (labeled as “Filed under:…” and “Tagged with…”) appearing beneath each post.
Any ideas? Thanks again!Ipsetnu,
Thank you very much for answering my questions! I really appreciate your help.
To put my inquiries in context, I currently have WP site (about a year old) that contains information pertaining to one US state, all of which is currently located at example.org. Now I would like to expand it to include information for a second state, and thinking that Multisite would make the most sense…particularly with an eye toward scalability (possibly adding other states in the future). However, I haven’t used Multisite before, so I’m a bit unsure.
Basically, I want visitors to be able to go to example.org, where they can get general information, and perform searches that include both states. From that main page, I also want visitors to be able to select an individual state (example.org/state1) and thereafter they’re searches results would be limited to that state (unless of course they returned to the main example.org).
1. Does this sound like a good fit for Multisite?
2. If so, would you suggest directories, as above, or subdomains?
3. I’m planning to develop in localhost (using MAMP), and read that subdomains are therefore not possible (wildcard subs won’t work). If that’s correct, is it possible to switch to from subdirectories to subdomains at a later date?Thanks again for any guidance!
Getting closer to a solution, so I thought I’d share, in the event that someone runs into a similar issue. Although, I’m not sure on the specifics, the issue is caused by a conflict with the Events Manager plugin. With that plugin disabled, the settings sections in the Custom Field Template panel all open and collapse.