300 sites within a multisite shouldn’t be a problem by itself. Just be aware that things scale out quickly when you are operating that many sites. In particular, the number of posts will grow fast, and depending on the type of site, the traffic can grow fast. 300 empty sites with no traffic can be … Read more
I found the solution. Even using “subdirectorys”, i got this error, so I had to configure a DNS with “*.mydomain.com” to multisite functions workout.
The only thing that multisite networks share are users, Contact Form 7 forms will not be shared between sites. You will need to create a new form in each site
Do I have to create sub domain all the time in my cpanel before creating new website (sub domain) in WordPress? You need to make sure that the subdomains are created somewhere. WordPress doesn’t have the capability to create DNS entries for you. If you’ve got WordPress set up on example.com and you want to … Read more
I was pointing to wrong directory. Actually WordPress requires sub domain (site1.example.com) to point to the root directory of main website (example.com). Previously in cpanel my sub domain path was public_html/site1 and now i change this to public_html/ and everything started to work properly.
i am on a shared host but i don’t think it could be that First, do you have access to the hosting service in such a way that you can map the VirtualHost of the blog.clientdomain.com to your webserver? If not, then you’re screwed and no amount of WordPress trickery will do the job. Webservers … Read more
There are two alternatives store the caching on an NFS “drive” put a caching proxy before your instances and forget about stupid caching plugins. Variation on 2 is to use a CDN like cloudflair to do the caching.
From the Codex article Before You Create A Network: You cannot choose Sub-directory Install (for a path-based network) if your existing WordPress installation has been set up for more than a month, due to issues with existing permalinks. The easiest solution is to export your existing site (if it’s got content you want to preserve), … Read more
The documentation for this is contradictory, but I believe wp_sitemeta is meant to only store information for sites in the wp_sites table, which only stores the main site in a network. It would make more sense to store each site’s template_color in their individual wp_[BLOGID]_options tables. However, keeping the data as-is, you may be able … Read more
Yes, it is. All you need to do is to install your WordPress on the subdomain, turn the Multisite on and set it to use subdirectories for sites. Make sure the following is set in multisite constants: define( ‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, false );