There are several Broadcast add-on packs that offer a collection of add-ons to make broadcasting easier, saving you even more time.
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3rd party pack
These add-ons act as glue between Broadcast and plugins from 3rd parties. They automatically detect features and do any extra work necessary to integrate the plugins during broadcasting.
Control pack
These add-ons give you extra control of what you broadcast and how.
- All Blogs gives all users access to all of the blogs in the network.
- All Blogs Superadmin allows only superadmins to broadcast to all blogs in the network without having to be a user of the blog.
- All Images detects all referenced local images in post text fields and adds them to the broadcast.
- Attachment Control allows better control of how attachments are handled during broadcasting.
- Attachment Shortcodes copies attachments specified in custom shortcodes.
- Back To Parent updates the parent post with the new child content.
- Comments: Adds support for broadcasting of comments.
- Custom Field Attachments allows post custom field containing attachment IDs to be broadcasted correctly.
- Custom Field Posts: Allow post custom field containing post IDs to be broadcasted correctly.
- Custom Field Terms: Allow post custom field containing taxonomy term IDs to be broadcasted correctly.
- Delete Before Broadcast deletes duplicate and similar child posts on each blog before broadcasting
- Gutenberg Attachments: Modify attachment IDs found in Gutenberg blocks to match their equivalent attachments on each blog.
- Gutenberg Menus: Modify menu IDs found in Gutenberg blocks to match their equivalent attachments on each blog.
- Gutenberg Posts: Modify post IDs found in Gutenberg blocks to match their equivalent attachments on each blog.
- Gutenberg Protect: Protects specific Gutenberg blocks from being overwritten during broadcasting.
- Gutenberg Terms: Modify taxonomy term IDs found in Gutenberg blocks to match their equivalent attachments on each blog.
- Hreflang: Adds support for SEO-friendly hreflang html tags.
- Keep Child Status keeps the status of post children to private, pending, published, draft, no matter the status of the parent.
- Link Before Broadcast attempts to find unlinked children on each child blog during broadcast.
- Local Files automatically copies local files to each blog and updates the links in the content.
- Local Links automatically updates links to local posts on each child blog.
- More Children: Allows children to create more children of the parent.
- No New Terms prevents taxonomy terms from being created on child blogs.
- Parent Pull allows content to be pulled from (parent) blogs.
- Per Blog Taxonomies allows individual control of specific taxonomies for each child post.
- Permalinks provides more precise control of permalinks for both parents and children.
- Protect Child Properties prevent various properties of child posts from being overwritten.
- Rebroadcaster: Periodically and automatically rebroadcast specific posts.
- Redirect All Children redirects single post views from visitors of child posts to the parent post.
- Redirect Parent redirect all views of a parent post to the first child post.
- Scheduler: Automatically change the publish date of child posts during broadcasting.
- Search And Replace finds and replaces texts in posts during broadcast.
- Shortcode Attachments modifies attachment IDs found in shortcodes to match their equivalent attachments on each blog.
- Shortcode Menus modifies menu IDs found in shortcodes to match their equivalent menus on each blog.
- Shortcode Posts: Modifies post IDs found in shortcodes to match their equivalent posts on each blog.
- Shortcode Terms automatically translates taxonomy term IDs found in shortcodes when broadcasting.
- Taxonomy Term Attachments: Allow taxonomy term meta containing attachment IDs to be broadcasted correctly.
- Term Meta Attachments: Allow taxonomy term meta containing attachment IDs to be broadcasted correctly.
- Thumbnail Sizes allows for different additional thumbnail sizes on a per-blog basis.
- Unlink On Edit: Unlinks child posts when they are modified.
- Update Attachments updates existing attachments by copying over the files to the child blogs.
- Update Family updates the parent post and siblings when editing a child post.
- User & Blog Settings (UBS) can hide the broadcast meta box and/or menu, modify the meta box to force/prevent broadcast to blogs, with separate settings for users / blogs / roles.
- User & Blog Settings Post uses the modifications from the UBS plugin to broadcast posts with one click.
Efficiency pack
These add-ons allow you to broadcast more efficiently, saving you even more time.
- Blog Groups 2 provides a means of grouping blogs together, in order to be able to quickly select and unselect blogs from the Broadcast meta box.
- Duplicate Attachments will duplicate the attachment and thumbnails, instead of letting WordPress regenerate them.
- Find Some Unlinked Children can selectively link orphans / unlinked posts to parents, instead of automatically linking all found children.
- New Blog Broadcast automatically broadcasts posts when creating a new blog.
- Purge Children removes children and their attached files from child blogs.
- Queue: Adds a broadcast queue which helps to broadcast posts to tens / hundreds / more blogs.
- Rebroadcast updates selected parent posts by using a bulk action.
- Rebroadcaster: Periodically and automatically rebroadcast specific posts.
- Send To Many allows mass broadcast of several posts to blogs at once.
Utilities pack
These add-ons do things semi-related to broadcasting, but are good to have none-the-less.
- Bulk Cloner creates clones of existing blogs on the network.
- CDN Workaround works around faulty CDNs that do not report the correct URL for attachments.
- Code Snippets: Run code snippets on specific blogs.
- Copy Options copies blog options / settings between blogs.
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- Cron Everywhere: Runs WordPress cron periodically on all sites of the network.
- Custom Field Cleanup: Cleans up the custom fields of a post.
- Lock Post allows users to lock editing of posts / pages to only themselves and super admins.
- Manual Post Actions manually runs bulk post actions on posts.
- Media Cleanup: cleans up unused media by looking for unused items in the database and on disk.
- Menus copies menus between blogs (overwrite / update), with support for equivalent child posts on the child blogs and equivalent taxonomies.
- Page Content Shortcode provides a
[bc_page_content slug="pageslug"] shortcode to display the contents of a page.
- PHP Code - Run custom PHP code on selected blogs. Easily switch themes for all blogs, for example.
- Shortcodes provides arbitrary admin-defined global or local shortcodes.
- Sitemaps generates network-aware sitemaps and robots.txt.
- Sync Taxonomies synchronize the taxonomies of target blogs with those from a source blog.
- User Role Sync copies user roles between blogs.
- Widgets copies widget and sidebar settings between blogs.
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