Should I go for Multisite or separate WP Installation?

Generally choosing separate WP installations means that your websites won’t have anything in common. Choosing Multisite installation enables you some sort of centralization. Your blogs usually are separate (eg. different domains / themes), but they may share something. According to your description you might want consider a single installation. It is possible to create the … Read more

Force string into signup form

Not sure where you are placing the code as you don’t say – but you will need to edit the WordPress signup code / file and add your random string code in there and then hide the input for the sub-domain or set it to disabled and set it’s value to the random string. You’ll … Read more

In a subdomain network, what .htaccess settings can I use to have WP ignore requests to one subdomain?

I found this article: http://codex.wordpress.org/Configuring_Wildcard_Subdomains_for_multi_site_under_Plesk_Control_Panel I had used it originally when setting up the wildcard subdomains on my Plesk server. At first I didn’t need to worry about the webmail section, but now I do, and here’s what I did: $ cd /etc/apache2/conf.d $ mv zzz_horde_vhost.conf zz001_horde_vhost.conf $ /etc/init.d/apache2 restart This way, the Horde config … Read more

Managing database tables in WordPress multisite

use the API, the functions of WordPress for save data and check before, it is an Multisite install; thats all. The first example is only for check, is the activated as network wide. // if is active in network of multisite if ( is_multisite() && isset($_GET[‘networkwide’]) && 1 == $_GET[‘networkwide’] ) { add_site_option( ‘my_settings_id’, $data … Read more