Archive for the WP Subdomains Category
Thanks to a post from Arnee over on the wordpress forums it seems you can now have one sitemap to cover multiple sites. This makes using the Google XML Sitemaps plugin work properly with Wordpress Subdomains.
Here’s the steps I took.
- Install and configure the Google XML Sitemaps plugin
- Login to the Google Webmaster Tools site
- Add your main blog site
- Choose to verify using the “Upload an HTML file”
- Upload the file google give you to your document root
- Click “Verify”
- Add all your subdomains using the same method, it uses the same html file so there is no need to upload anything just click “Verify” each time
- Go back into your main blog site configuration and pick Sitemaps
- Click “Submit a Sitemap” and give it the address of the file created by the plugin
- Google should now index all the urls in the sitemap
Hope this helps.
I have just released WP Subdomains 0.6.9.
There is only a minor update over 0.6.8, but it also fixes the problem there seemed to be on the Wordpress Plugins page where it still thought that 0.6.6 was the newest version.
I’m working towards version 1.0.0 which has a number of improvements and fixes.
You can download from here or from the Wordpress Admin section of your site.
Happy to say that I’ve just released 0.6.8 with working Wordpress 2.9 compatibility. You can get it from the wordpress plugins site.
Release 0.6.8 is just 0.6.6 with 3 main fixes:
- Wordpress 2.9 support
- Wordpress MU support
- Empty Subdomain Categories now shown
For those who want to try the current development version with more fixes then download the development version from the wordpress plugins website.
Now I have my development environments up and running again I hope to get back into fixing up any issues people have.
If you have any bugs or requests please send them via the contact page.
I’ve had reports that WP Subdomains is broken in Wordpress 2.9
I will try my best to find time this week to get to the bottom of it, but if anyone in the mean time figures out the problem please let me know.
The bugs have been mounting and my spare time has been shrinking. I was hoping to do a new release a few weeks back but found a bug at the last moment that stopped me. I’m really hoping that this weekend i can get a couple of hours spare to try and fix it. If you are having issues with the current release then feel free to try the version in the svn trunk.
I did get a fairly worrying email not long back from someone who said that the plugin screwed up their database. The plugin shouldn’t even touch exisiting tables other than setting options. However i will look into it and if anyone else has had similar issues please let me know. If unsure backup your database before you install the plugin.
The last few months have been quite hectic as a lot has been going on for me. As a result my work on Wordpress Subdomains has suffered. I know a lot of people have been contacting me, but I’ve just not had the time to reply.
This weekend I will be replying to those who asked for help and will be releasing the next version of Wordpress Subdomains (0.7) in the next week. The code has been ready for 2 months now, but I’ve just not had a chance to test it.
Sorry for the delays folks.
Somewhere something has gone wrong on my wordpress svn repository.
Firstly it seems to think that version 0.6.7 is the latest release which is certainly isn’t as it’s still development work in the trunk.
Secondly the tag for 0.6.6 seems to have not created correctly. I’m not sure what’s going on, but don’t upgrade to 0.6.7. I’ll try and recreate the tag. I just need to find an internet cafe here that will let me use my laptop.
Sorry for the screwup, I think it all hinges on the lack of the 0.6.6 tag so the wordpress download site is just serving up the latest code from the trunk.
Update: Seems I made the tag but never commited it. I Have done now. If you did download 0.6.7 then don’t worry too much, it should work fine and contain a number of improvements (it’s the version in use on this site). You can get 0.6.6 from the wordpress website if you want to be sure.
Just to let you know that the tag filtering doesn’t yet affect the Tag Cloud widget, so you will see all tags when under a subdomain. In my dev I’ve so far got it to show only the relevant tags, now my next task is to get it to order them correctly by post count for that subdomain. That was looking near impossible last night, but on my Bus trip from Lovina to Ubud today I think I figured out a way to do it. We’ll see.
Firstly a big bug fix. Anyone installing the plugin for the first time at version 0.6.5 would have found that it didn’t really work very well. The move to wordpress.org hosting changed the folder name the plugin sits in and kind of broke the install function that’s supposed create the required database table.
Thank you to Eric and Lisa for providing useful feedback that enabled me to track down the problem. No “thank you” to the guy who sent me a rather rude email and still expected me to I spend my free time supporting him.
The new features in this release are the Tag filtering on a subdomain and Main blog on subdomain features mentioned in the previous post. I’ve also been working on reducing the memory usage on large sites, though there is more of this to come.
If you already have the plugin installed you should be able to updated from inside wordpress. Otherwise you can find it here.
A new version with the previously mentioned new features will be released this weekend.
I’m sorry for those who’ve left comments and contacted me that I’ve not had much chance to reply. I’ve been travelling through Indonesia the last few weeks and it’s hard to get good internet access sometimes. To top it off the battery in my laptop died so I can only use it when I’m near a power outlet.
We got to Bali yesterday night (after a fairly awful bus journey) and plan to stay for a few days, so I’ve decided this weekend I will release the latest changes and try and get back to the people who’ve asked for help.
Hang in there! 
P.S if anyone knows a place to get a battery for a Thinkpad X61s in Bali please let me know
