How To Provide Sub-Blogs Their Own Domain Names?
Shortly after, I was able to find Otto’s tutorial on the topic. WordPress 3.0: Multisite Domain Mapping Tutorial
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How to move existing WordPress wp-content folder along with database to new server and new domain name?
There’s a pretty good step by step on moving WordPress in the Codex. It is what I follow when changing domains. Moving the files is pretty straight-forward. It is the hard-coded references in the database that are tricky. However, serialized search and replace will take care of all database changes. I’ve used the Velvet Blues … Read more
How to display a raw HTML page (bypassing WordPress theme, scripts, etc)
If you’re willing to create a child theme and put your PHP files in there, this approach is relatively clean. For each file, create a rewrite rule where you specify the path you want to use and the filename that should load. In the example below, /custom-path/ loads custom-file.php from the root of your child … Read more
How to Create a Cookieless Domain in WordPress
Using “cookieless” domain for serving static assets is common recommendation performance tools give. The reasoning being that cookies do nothing at all for such files, but still consume resources. It is, however, not something WP can handle for following reasons: WordPress does not control domain. DNS points domain to specific server’s IP address, where WP … Read more
How to transfer a WordPress blog to a different domain?
I recommend handling the 301 redirect in your web server rather than in WordPress. mod_rewrite or RedirectMatch will be much more efficient than spinning up WordPress to deliver a Location: header. <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName busted-cheap-url.com # mod_alias RedirectMatch permanent (.*) http://great-new-url.com$1 # OR mod_rewrite RewriteEngine on RewriteRule (.*) http://great-new-url.com$1 [R=301] </VirtualHost> There are several methods … Read more
Installation problems on a domain-name-less server
Set server_name to the IP address, eg: server { listen 80; server_name 0.1.2.3; // other stuff } You could also leave it out, because the default in ngninx is an empty string. But then all those pieces in WordPress that don’t validate $_SERVER[‘SERVER_NAME’] and similar values … will just break. See ticket #25239 for the … Read more
How to use alias domain for multisite installation?
Domain Mapping via Core You don’t need to use the domain mapping plugin if you are planning on running a WordPress Multisite with top-level domains and/or sudomains. WordPress allows you to change a sub-domain to a top level domain once you have added the site settings, see the screenshot below. Core works perfectly without Alias, … Read more
multisite: use a virtual subfolder for subblogs
I had a similar issue with another client, entering something like projects/project1 would error as the / would fail validation. After failing to find an override or filter, instead I found a loophole. If you make projectsproject1, then afterwards edit the site so its url is projects/project1 and save, update the homeurl etc, it works! … Read more
How to limit user registration to a specific set of domains?
You can do it easily by writing a code inside your theme’s functions.php file. here is the code: function is_valid_email_domain($login, $email, $errors ){ $valid_email_domains = array(“gmail.com”,”yahoo.com”);// whitelist email domain lists $valid = false; foreach( $valid_email_domains as $d ){ $d_length = strlen( $d ); $current_email_domain = strtolower( substr( $email, -($d_length), $d_length)); if( $current_email_domain == strtolower($d) ){ … Read more
How will self-hosted WordPress work with Google Page Speed Service?
Potential Issues Google’s Page Speed service does not work with “naked domains”. That is, it will not work with just “example.com”. The domain name must have a subdomain in front of it, such as “www.example.com”. This is due to a limitation on Google’s implementation of the Page Speed service, which requires you to set up … Read more