If you want sections in a subdomain and in subdirectories, use a multi-site installation. See Create a Network and our tag multi-site. Then you set the the blog and the shop as separate sites, and the portfolio as a custom post type or as a regular page in the main blog.
blogs.dir isn’t used for multisites created after WordPress 3.5. Instead everything exists in wp-content/uploads.
You can not run different networks or different Multisite installations under one domain in the default possibilities of WP. But you can use one Multiste with multiple networks with the help of a plugin – https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-multi-network/ With this plugin get you the chance to create different networks with sites in one installation, one Multisite. Like … Read more
I usually just run a function on wpmu_new_blog – best to put in mu-plugins function wpse_wpmu_remove_default_content($blog_id, $user_id, $domain, $path, $site_id, $meta) { if ( !current_user_can(‘manage_network’) ) return; switch_to_blog($blog_id); // Remove the default post & page wp_delete_post(1, true); wp_delete_post(2, true); // Remove the first comment wp_delete_comment( 1, true ); restore_current_blog(); } add_action( ‘wpmu_new_blog’, ‘wpse_wpmu_remove_default_content’ );
You are facing the error because the database tables have old domain stored in all tables and post meta data. You need to replace all instances of previous domain with the new one in the database, the following link will help: https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/ You should also update your permalinks after the above process.
WordPress in Sub Directory Just install your WordPress site next to your HTML site in a subdirectory such as /mysite. While you are working on the WordPress site, it would be found in https://example.com/mysite. Then once you are ready to switch to the WordPress site, you can just change the site url to https://example.com in … Read more
In theory, you could rename the file and change the rewrite rule accordingly. Assuming you rename it to wp-index.php, it would look something like this: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /wp-index.php [L] </IfModule> There are a few references to index.php in the WP source, but they’re … Read more
When the installer runs it calls wp_install(), that in turn calls populate_options() defined in wp-admin/includes/schema.php, which runs the following.. if ( !__get_option(‘home’) ) update_option(‘home’, $guessurl); Prior to that $guessurl is defined by.. $guessurl = wp_guess_url(); The guess URL function is defined in wp-includes/functions.php and looks like this. function wp_guess_url() { if ( defined(‘WP_SITEURL’) && ” … Read more
I’d highly recommend WP-CLI for such tasks. It is a tool that allows installation and configuration of WordPress on the command line. What you are trying could easily be done: wp core download wp core config –dbname=<dbname> –dbuser=<dbuser> –dbpass=<dbpass> wp core install –url=<url> –title=<site-title> –admin_user=<username> –admin_password=<password> –admin_email=<email> There are a lot of other commands that … Read more
You may install WordPress for postgres. I am the maintainer of the project. The repository here: https://github.com/php4dev/heroku-wordpress