Page for admin to set site-wide defaults needed

More input on this enhancement request:

GMT offset: http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1625&replies=4 Standard theme: http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1463&replies=16

Is anyone wanting and able to work on these?

Maybe for version 2, unless someone wants to submit a patch. hint-hint! :)

Hint taken ;)

The following gives the admin the ability to override the default links.

[wpmu@host public_html]$ svn diff wp-includes/wpmu-functions.php wp-admin/wpmu-edit.php wp-admin/wpmu-options.php
Index: wp-includes/wpmu-functions.php
===================================================================
--- wp-includes/wpmu-functions.php      (revision 803)
+++ wp-includes/wpmu-functions.php      (working copy)
@@ -1217,11 +1217,26 @@

        $wpdb->hide_errors();

-       // Default links
        $wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->linkcategories (cat_id, cat_name) VALUES (1, '".addslashes(__('Blogroll'))."')");
-       $wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->links (link_url, link_name, link_category, link_owner, link_rss) VALUES ('http://wordpress.com/', 'WordPress.com', 1, '$user_id', 'http://wordpress.com/feed/');");
-       $wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->links (link_url, link_name, link_category, link_owner, link_rss) VALUES ('http://wordpress.org/', 'WordPress.org', 1, '$user_id', 'http://wordpress.org/development/feed/');");

+       // Default links
+       $default_blogroll = get_site_option('default_blogroll');
+       print "default_blogroll=$default_blogroll";
+       if (!$default_blogroll) {
+               $default_blogroll = "http://Wordpress.com Wordpress.com http://wordpress.com/feed\n".
+                                   "http://wordpress.org, WordPress.org, http://wordpress.org/development/feed/";
+       }
+       $default_blogroll_list = explode("\n",$default_blogroll);
+
+       foreach ($default_blogroll_list as $line) {
+           list($siteurl, $sitename, $feedurl) = preg_split('/[\s,]+/',$line);
+           print "line=$line\n, siteurl=$siteurl, sitename=$sitename, feedurl=$feedurl\n";
+           if ($siteurl) { // skips blank lines
+             $wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $wpdb->links (link_url, link_name, link_category, link_owner, link_rss) VALUES ('$siteurl', '$sitename', 1, '$user_id', '$feedurl');");
+           }
+       }
+
+
        // First post
        $now = date('Y-m-d H:i:s');
        $now_gmt = gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s');
Index: wp-admin/wpmu-edit.php
===================================================================
--- wp-admin/wpmu-edit.php      (revision 803)
+++ wp-admin/wpmu-edit.php      (working copy)
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
                update_site_option( "first_post", $_POST[ 'first_post' ] );
                update_site_option( "welcome_email", $_POST[ 'welcome_email' ] );
                update_site_option( "fileupload_maxk", $_POST[ 'fileupload_maxk' ] );
+               update_site_option( "default_blogroll", $_POST[ 'default_blogroll' ] );
                $site_admins = explode( ' ', str_replace( ",", " ", $_POST['site_admins'] ) );
                if ( is_array( $site_admins ) ) {
                        $mainblog_id = $wpdb->get_var( "SELECT blog_id FROM {$wpdb->blogs} WHERE domain='{$current_site->domain}' AND path='{$current_site->path}'" );
Index: wp-admin/wpmu-options.php
===================================================================
--- wp-admin/wpmu-options.php   (revision 803)
+++ wp-admin/wpmu-options.php   (working copy)
@@ -76,6 +76,12 @@
                <th scope="row"><?php _e('Max upload file size:') ?></th>
                <td><input name="fileupload_maxk" type="text" id="fileupload_maxk" value="<?php echo get_site_option('fileupload_maxk', 300) ?>" size="5" /> KB
                </tr>
+               <tr valign="top">
+               <th scope="row"><?php _e('Default blogroll:') ?></th>
+                <td><textarea name="default_blogroll" id="default_blogroll" rows='5' cols='45' style="width: 95%"><?php echo stripslashes( get_site_option('default_blogroll') ) ?></textarea>
+                <br />
+                <?php _e('$siteurl, $sitename, $feedurl separated by commas or spaces') ?></td>
+               </tr>
                </table>
        </fieldset>
        <fieldset class="options">

Any chance this can be submitted?

Thanks, M.

No comment? Feedback, please!

+1 on this idea. If it becomes a 2.0 feature, then it would be great if it also incorporated the ability to optionally affect all existing blogs as well, so that, you could alter all blogs simultaneously (e.g. to configure a new plugin installed in mu-plugins.)

I guess you could just do this yourself by coding a plugin that sets the options and putting it in mu-plugins, but an admin screen would be nice. That said, I can't imagine a simple AND full version of what I'm asking for, so it depends on the genius imagination of others.