<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>I highly recommend the plugin (not premium, available in WordPress repository) Site Template. </div><div><br></div><div>Very nice that it allows for multiple templates (a feature we really really needed) so new sites can be given the option of being several different types from the point of inception. <br><br><div><div><br></div><div>Joseph Ugoretz, Ph.D</div><div>Associate Dean of Teaching, Learning and Technology</div><div>Macaulay Honors College</div><div>City University of New York</div><div><a href="http://macaulay.cuny.edu">macaulay.cuny.edu</a></div></div></div><div><br>On Mar 31, 2011, at 4:27 PM, James Tryon <<a href="mailto:james@easilyamusedinc.com">james@easilyamusedinc.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>This sounds fun,<div><br></div><div>This is going to be a quick replay, sorry for any typos ;c p<br><div><br></div><div>I have done a couple sites like this in the past.</div><div><br></div><div>I have used a couple plugins from <a href="http://wpmudev.org"><a href="http://wpmudev.org">wpmudev.org</a></a> so yes you would need to signup but its worth it.</div><div><br></div><div>1 - created an example site.</div><div>2 - Use a child theme to keep a clean upgrade path. </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Strip out things from the theme file that you do not want. Like the commit include in single.php</div><div>3 - set all your settings and remove anything that you do not need or want.</div><div>4 - set it as a template | <a href="http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/new-blog-template"><a href="http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/new-blog-template">http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/new-blog-template</a></a></div><div>5 - set the template as the default theme on creation of new site.</div><div><br></div><div>I have also taken this a step further for a network of site that where city based and added to more plugins </div><div><br></div><div>One for custom short codes and the other was a post or page lock. </div><div><br></div><div>I went in and created the whole site.</div><div>then swapped out things like </div><div>- emails</div><div>- addresses</div><div>- dates</div><div>- names</div><div><br></div><div>what ever the client wanted the sub-sites to change but not all the text on each page. </div><div><br></div><div>Then we set up the post/page lock on most of the pages. Left some unlocked, like the about pages. </div><div>Only the super admin can change the locked page status.</div><div><br></div><div>And all the sub-sites can do what they want but cant brake or change anything.</div><div><br></div><div>Thats a quick run down on how I have set something like this up in the past.</div><div><br></div><div>James Tryon, Creative Director</div><div>Easily Amused, Inc.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Mar 31, 2011, at 4:10 PM, Whisler, Dave wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">I’m running a WordPress 3.0.1 multi-site network at my university where I work. <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">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></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">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></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">It seems like this should be rather easy, but I have yet to figure out where to do this.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Here’s my preferences for a new site:<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span>1.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span>No posts<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span>2.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span>No pages<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span>3.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span>No links<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span>4.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span>Comments are disabled sitewide<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span>5.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span>timezone to “New York” (aka: EST / UTC – 5 hrs)<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span>6.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span>set a certain header image of my choice<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span>7.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span>permalinks – Month and name<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span>8.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span>writing settings – size of the post “25” lines<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span>9.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span>widgets – set which ones should be in any new sites<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">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></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">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></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Dave Whisler<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">University of North Carolina at Charlotte<o:p></o:p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>wp-edu mailing list<br><a href="mailto:wp-edu@lists.automattic.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><a href="mailto:wp-edu@lists.automattic.com">wp-edu@lists.automattic.com</a></a><br><a href="http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><a href="http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-edu">http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-edu</a></a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><ATT00002.c></div></blockquote></body></html>