What you’re asking for is very easy with this plugin: http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/domain-mapping/ It does cross-domain cookie syncing with all of your sites on one Multisite installation. I’ve used this a couple times and it works dandy.
Site Address (URL) Enter the address you want people to type in their browser to reach your WordPress site. This is the directory where WordPress’s main index.php file is installed. The Site address (URL) is identical to the WordPress address (URL) (above) unless you are giving WordPress its own directory. WordPress will trim a slash … Read more
This is something you can do with your DNS / Domain Name Host. You choose in WordPress (WP-Admin > Settings > General ) if you want to use www.somename.com or just somename.com If you login in to your Domain Name Host (I use 123-reg) then look for Manage DNS CNAME / A / TXT records … Read more
This is because your admin user account isn’t recognised on sub-domains anymore. Log into the network dashboard sites section, http://<your-domain>/wp-admin/network/sites.php, edit each of your sub-domains and add your user account as an admin role.
Try wpengine.com, they seem to be WordPress-addicted enough to provide, what you need 🙂
Check this out: http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/domain-management/ It looks like you can just change the name servers/a records/whatever. But if your client is not planning on switching back to WordPress.com, I would suggest you transfer to another registrar. It looks like the Automattic domain manager is pretty full featured, however, so maybe that’s not necessary.
It’s not necessarily a fix, but you should be able to use the Rewrite Analyzer plugin to help you understand how WP is rewriting your links.
In the end I ended using mod_rewrite through .htaccess. The following is what I am using and so far is working well. RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^secure\.domain\.net$ RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.net/$1 [P,L]
Essentially, no. If you look at how that plugin stores its mappings: mysql> desc wp_domain_mapping; +———+————–+——+—–+———+—————-+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +———+————–+——+—–+———+—————-+ | id | bigint(20) | NO | PRI | NULL | auto_increment | | blog_id | bigint(20) | NO | MUL | NULL | | … Read more
I’ve never changed the main site URL (scenario 1), but I know it’s possible: three relevant links found in a quick search. For the second scenario, although not optimal, the standard procedure applies: install the plugin WordPress MU Domain Mapping park the TLD mynewsite.com in your Control Panel and point it to the folder of … Read more