The problem is that the idea of “the user of a specific subdirectory” doesn’t really exist natively in WP. There are sites (“subdirectories”), and there are users, and users can be associated with sites (through Roles and Capabilities), but there is no guarantee of a one-to-one correspondence. If you are running a network where users … Read more
That’s a pretty lengthy question, so I try to be brief and still hit all your points. If nothing else, maybe someone else can improve on what I suggest. Does it do it out of the box? No It does however have the ability to do the things you’ve asked “out of the box”, it’s … Read more
The site not being listed under My sites has happened to me loads. Go to Network Admin > Sites and you should see you site. The username is more than likely, not yours, Simply go into the user editor section add your self as an admin and delete the default user. This should make it … Read more
“blog” is a reserved name within the WordPress system, so you really can’t be using it as you are trying to do. A better solution would be to name the site something else that is a legal wordpress site name, and then use .htaccess to redirect the old links to the new ones.
There is a plugin called “Admin Menu Editor” that can do just this. I have used it numerous times without issues.
There is a known problem as described in this ticket and this blog post The problem was identified in 2.9.2 but looks to also have been identified in 3.0. From the sounds of it, the wordpress team won’t fix this bug, because they feel spam is inevitable, and that it is the responsibility of spam … Read more
You can set your homepage in WordPress by creating your page (the slug doesn’t matter) and then going into Settings > Reading and selecting the page in Front page displays > Front Page setting.
Appearance >> Widgets >> Select RSS and enter any blog feed you want. You can do it using the default rss widget in wordpress. Create a widget box to appear where you want through functions.php file in your theme. or you can get jNewsticker from Codecanyon and enter the feed from the blog and copy … Read more
I’m not sure what exactly is the problem that you’re having but hopefully this solution will work. Backup your database (This is very important) Download this script: http://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/ Use it to replace the old url “theshortfilm.co” to the newer one “welovefilm.co” Remove all the url-related configurations you did in your “wp-config.php” Go to admin panel … Read more
wp_posts table will be for the “main” site — the one from which the network was installed. wp_*_posts will be for other sites in the network — one set of tables per site. Excerpts are only saved when a user enters something in the “Excerpt” field in the admin area. If nothing was entered, nothing … Read more