new function - wp_get_sites($args)

[transom]

With the deprication of get_blog_list (and the dire warnings), we had a need for a function to retrieve a list of blogs. At first blush, it appears that one could use get_blogs_of_user. It seems to assume that the same admin (userid 1) is going to create all sites. If you have multiple network_admins, then a search for a single user's sites won't return a full list.

So I have adapted the code from wp-admin/ms-sites.php and with a nod to wp_list_pages - am submitting wp_get_sites for a future release.

This function accepts an argument list to filter the results, modify the order, and limit the range of results. I wrote it with an eye to provide an interface consistent with other wp functions, as well as potentially replacing the sql query in wp-admin/ms-sites.php.

The initial set of arguments include:

			'include_id' 		,				// includes only these sites in the results, comma-delimited
			'exclude_id' 		,				// excludes these sites from the results, comma-delimted
			'blogname_like' 	,				// domain or path is like this value
			'ip_like'			,				// Match IP address
			'reg_date_since'	,				// sites registered since (accepts pretty much any valid date like tomorrow, today, 5/12/2009, etc.)
			'reg_date_before'	,				// sites registered before
			'include_user_id'	,				// only sites owned by these users, comma-delimited
			'exclude_user_id'	,				// don't include sites owned by these users, comma-delimited
			'include_spam'		=> false,		// Include sites marked as "spam"
			'include_deleted'	=> false,		// Include deleted sites
			'include_archived'	=> false,		// Include archived sites
			'include_mature'	=> false,		// Included blogs marked as mature
			'public_only'		=> true,		// Include only blogs marked as public
			'sort_column'		=> 'registered',// or registered, last_updated, blogname, site_id
			'order'				=> 'asc',		// or desc
			'limit_results'		,				// return this many results
			'start'				,				// return results starting with this item

The usual warning are provided. It works for me but I haven't tested it completely yet. But I am assuming this could be helpful to others and I have no doubt about getting comments back <grin>

Source for wp_get_sites

Pretty neat.

Found a bug will submit new patch shortly (joining on the registration log causes interesting problems vis-a-vie blogs not created via registration - duh!)

Attached is a patch for wp-includes/ms-functions.php (replacing the farked version)