[Dale MacDonald]

We are in the process of building a “magazine” to live in our commons.  We have a notion of having widgets on the magazine’s front page that would show recent posts in various other sites’ blogs.  Seems like the BP infrastructure ought to make this simple but so far no simple joy so now we’re going to dig deeper. Anyone have thoughts on design patterns for peer site blogroll access? Are there BP methods I’ve missed? Or are we relegated to RSS?  In fact it’s not totally obvious to me how this would be done in parent-child sites.

Would others be interested in such a widget? It seems like it could be a nice addition to a cbox front page to be able to show the roll of some featured sub-blog.

Dale.

[Bowe Frankema]

Interesting question, and something I have to do for a project in the near future as well. So far I only aware of the “Recent Networkwide Posts” widget that shows recent blogs from across the network.

If you want to have something more robust or flexible I don’t have a clear answer yet. I’ve done a little bit of research but have not found the perfect solution yet.

That being said this plugin seems very interesting: https://premium.wpmudev.org/project/post-indexer/.

I think that would allow you to build a custom template showing recent/featured posts from across your network.

Good luck Dale 🙂

[Ray]

Hi Dale,

There is no such widget, but BP does have the activity stream, which you could use to query other blogs.

Check out the bp_has_activities() loop and then you should be able to filter items by the “blogs” component and by blog id by using the “primary_id”.

Something like this:

if ( bp_has_activities( array( 'object' => 'blogs', 'primary_id' => '1,2,3' ) ) ) {
// your code here
}

In the example above, 1,2,3 are the blog IDs I want to filter by.

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