Two by Two
New users just install it like a regular plugin; users of the old version need to undertake an annoying upgrade procedure. (Sorry!)
As with the previous version, there are some things you need to do to enable pingback and trackback. The plugin page has more details.
Sorry this is so late; and worse: sorry it hasn’t been rigorously tested. I did try, really, but there’s always something I miss, like accidentally deleting the whole database. You won’t know until you try, though, and I won’t know unless you tell me. 
Bug reports are welcome, but please provide as much information as possible.
Problems
Pingback and trackback are entirely untested, because I can’t get them to work on my test server with an unmodified WordPress install, let alone a hacked up one. It’s a mystery.
RSD won’t work, because the link is hard-coded. Does anyone even use it?
Numbering
The most important change since Multiply for WordPress 1.5 is that alternate blogs are no longer counted up from #1. The first blog created with the plugin used have an ID of 1, the next 2 etc., but this conflicts with the new $blog_id variable — WordPress 2.0 uses it in the core, and by default it’s 1.
To avoid this, the upgrade script will, in an incredibly dodgy manoeuvre, re-number the old blog #1 to something else. If you have blogs numbered one through three, #1 will become #4. Please note, though, that the $mb_press_id variables in the index.php and xmlrpc-$x.php files you may have created will not be changed automatically.
Users
A system of user roles and capabilities has replaced the old user level system, and it’s multi-blog compatibible out-of-the-box. For you, dear user, the effect is that the Multiply admin page no longer contains any user functions at all.
Mostly, this is a very good thing: you just switch blogs, go to the user page, and edit the user levels. The downside is that you have to do this with every blog. User #1 is added as an administrator by default; no other users are added at all, but they should default to ’subscriber’ level.
Thus far, 17 responses.
not trying to be a wiseass… but the link you gave for the upgrading procedure is 404.
One question about Multiply. IfI want users be registered to comment; would they have to register for each blog? Or will one registration work for all?
Thanks
The users table is global. If there’s no role defined for that user for a blog, IIRC WordPress defaults to subscriber. So yes, I think one registration will work for all.
hello
i’m getting this error and i think i followed every step exactly:
Fatal error: Undefined class name ‘multiply’ in /home/berlinde/public_html/texto/wp-admin/upgrade-multiply.php on line 141
do you have a clue on what might’ve gone wrong? i’ve added you to my msn
Is the new version of the plugin in the plugins directory? The upgrade script needs it, and it being missing is the only reason I know of to get that particular error.
thank you!
When press is deleted and new press is added, the “deleted” press id number is not being recycled for new press. So: if I have press_id=2 and it is deleted, new press_id should be 2, but instead it is press_id=3.
How to overcome this?
When I create new blog, and go to “Edit” post, several things are broken:
1. Click on view goes to default page main blog page. 2. Click on category in manage post screen goes to default category on main blog. 3. Post slug does not have dashes between words.
How to fix?
Post slug generation is handled by WordPress; this plugin has nothing to do with it.
As for the other things you have reported as “broken”, have you followed the instructions on how to create new blogs, including changing the Blog Address URI and creating a new index.php?
Ok, sorry, me so stupid, but where goes new index.php file: root folder or in another folder? Do I have to rename it something?
Hi… I was wondering: Is there a way to share categories between blogs?
I want each blog to have its own set off categories, of course, but then there are certain posts that I’d like to show up on all of the blogs. I’m thinking the best way to do this (other than re-writing the post on each blog) would be to create a category that is shared amongst all the blogs that call it.
I noticed that the plugin source has a comment that says: “Remove tables from $multiply_tables for greater integration between blogs, i.e. categories to share categories, links and linkcategories to centralize the link database.” This implies that one can share categories, for posts as well as links. Is this correct? If so, how do I create these shared categories?
Thanks for your help!
Hello! ^_^
I don’t know how to make this script works…
I continue to get this error:
….
WordPress database error: [Table ‘tbtoyl1.wp_multiply’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT press_id, press_name FROM wp_multiply ORDER BY press_id
…
How to fix it?
That table should be installed when the plugin is activated. I don’t know why it hasn’t been.
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