You absolutely can have a single WordPress Multisite installation serve up more than one domain. Set up Multisite. For this site, it won’t matter if you use subdirectory or subdomain. (If you plan to add other sites to this Multisite network, choose the option you’d prefer to use for those other sites.) Create your new … Read more
As per the instructions for setting up WordPress MU Domain Mapping, sunrise.php needs to be placed directly in your /wp-content directory. It’s not a plugin in the traditional sense, so can’t be placed in mu-plugins (or even plugins for that matter). Setting up this plugin can take a bit of manual work so take care … Read more
When you log in, WordPress sets a cookie in your browser to mark you as authenticated. The COOKIE_DOMAIN sets the scope of this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Cookies#Scope_of_cookies i.e. the browser will only send the cookie back to sites that match its scope. i.e. if you log into example.com, WordPress will give you a ‘wordpress_logged_in’ cookie scoped to example.com. … Read more
In my opinion, you need a ‘Multi Network’, a many Multi-Sites Network. I build them here and there for different languages for one country, like domain.example/ domain.example/1-country/ domain.example/1-country/language-1/ domain.example/1-country/language-2/ domain.example/1-country/language-3/ domain.example/2-country/ domain.example/2-country/language-1/ domain.example/2-country/language-2/ The core of WordPress doesn’t support them and you need an enhancement. Ready to use is only possible with the help of … Read more
Short answer is – this is possible and easily achievable by using JJJ’s plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-multi-network/. Long answer is – WordPress allows for such structures to be created, but does require some hacking in order to make it right if you decide to do it manually. The original database structure of a multisite website is prepared … Read more
Cloudflare is usually used as a CDN, just to deliver parts of the site like images. In a typical setup, you would not set up redirects at all. You just use their plugin and it automatically pulls images and similar assets from the CDN instead of your domain. If instead you are trying to set … Read more
Changing the Site URL
Make sure your webhost gives you the ability to use WildCard DNS. I know some hosts such as Dreamhost don’t allow it on their shared hosting plans.
The proper way is after pointing the new domain to your hosting account to change the URL references in the Database. So, besides the siteurl & home options you shouldn’t forget upload path at the same table and a complete search & replace for local links and media URLs inside post contents. There are many … Read more
You could hook intop pre_comment_on_post: add_action( ‘pre_comment_on_post’, function(){ if ( empty ( $_SERVER[‘HTTP_REFERER’] ) ) exit; }); But … be aware, not all requests without an referer are actually spam posts. Some firewalls and proxies strip this field. And most automated spam comes with a Referer field filled with the name of the spammed domain. … Read more