Changing blog domain name

Rather than manually making changes to the WP tables, I use the “WP Clone” plugin. It saves the entire blog to a zip file, then you Restore that on the new site (using WP Clone). The restore process makes any needed changes to the domain names/links/whatever, so the new site just works. You will log … Read more

Can I use WP’s built in domain mapping with WP installed on a sub-domain?

In order to fix your problem, assuming you are using Apache web server, paste this into your .htaccess (the .htaccess inside the sub-domain (my) directory): RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L] # add a trailing slash to /wp-admin RewriteRule ^wp-admin$ wp-admin/ [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d RewriteRule ^ – [L] … Read more

Update javascript URL in header – Domain Mapping Plugin [closed]

I was able to find the file responsible for building the URL placed in the header: wp-content/plugins/domain-mapping/classes/Domainmap/Module/Cdsso.php I was able to update line# 391 and statically set the protocol to HTTPS which for my use case works. Obliviously we would want to check if SSL is being forced or if the current URL is https … Read more

Optimal setup for Multi Domain WordPress with Woocommerce

So, as a word of warning, WooCommerce doesn’t officially support multisites that draw from the same product database. Some (a lot) of extensions won’t work correctly, so just a heads up on that aspect. It sounds like a good workaround would be to install the five sites separately, and have them all connect to the … Read more

Multisite with different domain names

WordPress Multisite can handle this without a plugin. What you need to do: I’m assuming that your WP Multisite installation is at example.wordpress.com and your desired URL for the new site is example.com, per your question. Create the site in the Network Admin section on example.wordpress.com. Select Edit Site on the newly-created site. Change the … Read more

new WPMS site not working / Q setting up new site/subdomain

You don’t need a new directory for your subdomain. Both your main URL (www.americanthought.org) and your subdomain URL (www.technology.americanthought.org) should point to the same directory. Multisite will serve the sites from the same set of WordPress files. (I took a quick peek, and it appears that you’ve got your subdomain’s DNS entry pointing at an … Read more