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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><div><div>Have you tried this plugin? <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpmu-new-blog-defaults">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpmu-new-blog-defaults</a>/</div><div><br></div><div>Says it's broken, but it's working on a 3.05 that we have, so you might be in luck for a while…</div><div><br></div><div>Luke Waltzer</div><div><br></div></div></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> "Whisler, Dave" <<a href="mailto:dkwhisle@uncc.edu">dkwhisle@uncc.edu</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span> <<a href="mailto:wp-edu@lists.automattic.com">wp-edu@lists.automattic.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:10:37 -0400<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> <<a href="mailto:wp-edu@lists.automattic.com">wp-edu@lists.automattic.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> [wp-edu] how to set new site defaults on WordPress 3.x network<br></div><div><br></div><div xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">I’m running a WordPress 3.0.1 multi-site network at my university where I work. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I need a way to easily change some of the new site “default” parameters that are used when I create a new site on the WP network. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">While I want to do this, I want to do it safely without modifying core (for obvious reasons) or something else that might put the site at risk when upgrading, etc..<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">It seems like this should be rather easy, but I have yet to figure out where to do this.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Here’s my preferences for a new site:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span>No posts<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span>No pages<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span>No links<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span>Comments are disabled sitewide<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span>timezone to “New York” (aka: EST / UTC – 5 hrs)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span>set a certain header image of my choice<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">7.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span>permalinks – Month and name<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">8.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span>writing settings – size of the post “25” lines <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">9.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span>widgets – set which ones should be in any new sites<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I realize that likely some or all of these cannot easily be accomplished, but setting some up front as we need, would be better than none.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">As of right now each time I create a new site for someone, I either need to walk them thru setting up the defaults and deleting the “default” content off the new site OR do it myself, which either way is wasted time.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Dave Whisler<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">University of North Carolina at Charlotte<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div>_______________________________________________
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