Mapping Subdomains in WordPress to give the appearance of a localised site, best approach?

Sort of a vague question, but I think I understand what you’re getting at. You’d need to use a WordPress Multisite installation, which will effectively create localized blogs on a subdomain (brisbane.example.com, perth.example.com). Using a single site WordPress installation to do this is possible, using CNAME mapping on the domain, however this would not suit … Read more

Prevent WordPress from interpreting a subfolder?

To exclude a directory and all virtual requests to it, extend the regular rules: # WordPress # Images, Stylesheets etc. don’t need a HTML 404 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.+\.\w{2,4}$ # Existing file RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f # Existing directory RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d # Symbolic link RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l # Do not touch the directory ‘clients’ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} … Read more

Correct folder permissions?

For starters, the WordPress Codex has a wealth of information on this very topic. For the sake of brevity that should take care of most of it; however, there are some relievant points that should be made: If you do not wish WordPress (essentially PHP) to have access to the file system with the exception … Read more

Subdomain redirects to subdirectory [closed]

RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?example\.com RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ([a-z0-9-]+)/? http://$1.example.com [R=301,NC,L] Replace both instances of “example.com” with your domain name. Taken from: htaccess Subdomain Redirect

uploading images to specified directories

This might be perfect solution for you: http://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-upload-dir/ With that plugin you can have upload folder structure as you wish: “uploads/$image_type./.$client./.$post_title./” or uploads/category/subcategory/post_title/ Or anything you like, you can combine post title, category, post author, post date and many more in your folder structure.

WordPress Multisite new sites in directory

Is it possible to make a wordpress multisite on domain.com and then every site that I make goes to domain.com/directory/newsite? no, this is not possible without some major code hacking as far as I can tell. I run a few multisites, and I have some local installations to play around and didn’t manage to find … Read more