**
 * List recent posts across a Multisite network
 *
 * @uses get_blog_list(), get_blog_permalink()
 *
 * @param int $size The number of results to retrieve
 * @param int $expires Seconds until the transient cache expires
 * @return object Contains the blog_id, post_id, post_date and post_title
 */
function wp_recent_across_network( $size = 10, $expire_post = 7200, $exclude_home = true ) {
   if( !is_multisite() ) return false;
   
   // Cache the results with the WordPress Transients API
   // Get any existing copy of our transient data
   delete_site_transient( 'recent_across_network' );
   if ( ( $recent_across_network = get_site_transient( 'recent_across_network' ) ) === false ) {
   
      // No transient found, regenerate the data and save a new transient
      // Prepare the SQL query with $wpdb
      global $wpdb;
      
      $base_prefix = $wpdb->get_blog_prefix(0);
      $base_prefix = str_replace( '1_', '' , $base_prefix );

    // No loop necessary, Sitewide Tags makes it easy to snag latest posts from
    // the main site (side with blog_id = 1) where they also have permalinks

      $limit = absint($size);
      $query = "";

         $posts_table = $base_prefix . "posts";
         $posts_table = esc_sql( $posts_table );
         $blogs_table = esc_sql( $base_prefix . 'blogs' );
         $query .= "(SELECT $posts_table.ID, $posts_table.post_title, $posts_table.post_date, $blogs_table.blog_id FROM $posts_table, $blogs_table\n";
         $query .= "\tWHERE $posts_table.post_type = 'post'\n";
         $query .= "\tAND $posts_table.post_status = 'publish'\n";
         $query .= "\tAND $blogs_table.blog_id = 1 )\n"; // Works with Sitewide Tags!
         $query .= "ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT 0, $limit";

      // Run the query
      $recent_across_network = $wpdb->get_results( $query );

      // Set the Transients cache to expire every two hours
      set_site_transient( 'recent_across_network', $recent_across_network, $expire_post );
   }

   // Format the HTML output
   $html = '<ul>';
   foreach ( $recent_across_network as $post ) {
		$blog_id = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'blogid', $single=true);
		$blogname = get_blog_option ($blog_id, 'blogname' );



		$html .= '<li><a href="'.get_blog_permalink($post->blog_id, $post->ID ).'">';
		$html .= $post->post_title . '</a> ';
		$html .= 'in ' . $blogname . '</li>';
   }
   $html .= '</ul>';

   return $html;