Multisite version of Anthologize?
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Amanda French
Jan 9, 2012, 2:55:14 PM1/9/12
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Hey all,
We've got Anthologize network-activated on our multisite network (a
little place some of you may know called thatcamp.org), and we're
going to use it to put together a publication (the Proceedings of
THATCamp) based on writing that's on our network sites. Would it be
super-hard to make a multisite-optimized version of Anthologize? One
that would work from Network Admin or the chief site and would make
all the posts from all the child sites available for inclusion in
projects?
Patrick M-J and I have talked about it a little on e-mail, and he
wrote that "in the general case exposing content to Anthologize should
be opt-in only, I think, which adds a layer or two of complication and
UI work" and suggests using RSS import. I'm willing to use RSS import,
of course, but I'm not sure I agree that child sites would need to opt
in to a multisite version of Anthologize. After all, their work can be
harvested via RSS without their permission anyway, and I think you
could argue that there's an implied license from being on a network.
Anyway, what do you think? We might be able to pay someone to do the
work, since Proceedings of THATCamp is part of the Sloan grant funding
the PressForward initiative.
Amanda
We've got Anthologize network-activated on our multisite network (a
little place some of you may know called thatcamp.org), and we're
going to use it to put together a publication (the Proceedings of
THATCamp) based on writing that's on our network sites. Would it be
super-hard to make a multisite-optimized version of Anthologize? One
that would work from Network Admin or the chief site and would make
all the posts from all the child sites available for inclusion in
projects?
Patrick M-J and I have talked about it a little on e-mail, and he
wrote that "in the general case exposing content to Anthologize should
be opt-in only, I think, which adds a layer or two of complication and
UI work" and suggests using RSS import. I'm willing to use RSS import,
of course, but I'm not sure I agree that child sites would need to opt
in to a multisite version of Anthologize. After all, their work can be
harvested via RSS without their permission anyway, and I think you
could argue that there's an implied license from being on a network.
Anyway, what do you think? We might be able to pay someone to do the
work, since Proceedings of THATCamp is part of the Sloan grant funding
the PressForward initiative.
Amanda
Boone B. Gorges
Jan 9, 2012, 3:03:18 PM1/9/12
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The biggest technical challenge would be making the thing scale. WordPress Multisite isn't optimized (to say the least) for cross-blog querying and indexing.
A quick-fix kind of solution would be to use the Sitewide Tags plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-sitewide-tags/, which will harvest posts from every blog on the network onto a single "tags" blog. Then activate Anthologize on that blog.
Boone
Amanda French
Jan 12, 2012, 1:22:20 PM1/12/12
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Hey, that sounds like that'll work just fine, Boone. Makes total
sense. Will look into it. Thanks a bunch. Now go get busy on that
"cloning yourself" project.
sense. Will look into it. Thanks a bunch. Now go get busy on that
"cloning yourself" project.
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