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Getting Fluency ready for WPMU (4 posts)

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  • Avatar Image Tea Trade said 1 year, 10 months ago:

    Dean,

    Thank you for the latest update to Fluency. I’ve testing it out prior to the 3.2 WP update and am thrilled that you’ve made it compatible. It really is everything that I think the WP dashboard should be!

    I know you’ve not made it compatible with MU yet, but I’m thinking of a couple steps I could take to get it working with a Multisite setup.

    Is there a to hardcode default settings for it. Just some simple things, like the logo, the color and the display preferences. I see in wp-fluncy-admin.php that one of the first sections is //Set defaults on activation.

    If I were to input stuff into each string that I want, and then network activate it, or use it as a mu-plugin – would that be an effective way to deploy it across a multisite network.

    If I can figure out a way to setup some default settings, I can then simply hide the Fluency Admin Menu from the users in order keep things under control.

    Main question is: Is it possible to hardcode the settings?

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  • Avatar Image Dean Robinson said 1 year, 10 months ago:

    The only potential issue I see with hardcoding the settings is that they would most likely be wiped out the next time I post an update.

    I’ve got some ideas on how this could be implemented that wouldn’t involve you having to re-add your hardcoded settings with each update – no idea if my method will even work as its all just in my head at the moment.

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  • Avatar Image Tea Trade said 1 year, 10 months ago:

    @deanjrobinson – I tested it using the default settings area that I mentioned above but it didn’t work. (setting a default on activation in wp-fluency-admin.php) Probably because of the way MU handles options tables for each subsite.

    The only option I can think would be to recolor the default theme in the master css files. This is pretty grungy way to handle, especially, as you said, updates would kill it and its a lot of work to get it done in the first place.

    Any chance you might be able to make an update for Fluency to make usable in some way with multisite. It is a great way to rebrand the admin easily so your plugin could quickly become a leading plugin for that if it supported multi. You can certainly use me as your test subject for it.

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  • Avatar Image David Miles said 1 year, 10 months ago:

    I’m new to dealing with MU and modifying the admin area beyond what is done when adding options for plugins, so forgive my ignorance…
    If I understand it correctly, one option to allow settings if using the options table won’t suffice would be the use of custom hooks and actions, which the user could add simple functions to modify the behavior/appearance of fluency.

    I actually was interested in this admin design too in use with MU and BuddyPress.

    EDIT: Actually, after installing Fluency on WP 3.2.1 with BuddyPress, it works perfectly fine, but I’m guessing the issue is whatever settings are made are applied network-wide instead of each individual admin panel. Since WPMU DOES create a unique table for each instance, I would think you can just add options to that instance’s options table. It should be pretty simple.

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