In your themes functions.php file you can check wether or not it get’s installed for the first time on that blog. This can be done by using an option. An option can be set to flag that it’s installing. This option that signals that an install is immanent can be used in a hook of … Read more
I have been experiencing exactly the same thing. I run 5 WordPress sites on the same server, but suddenly started getting ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS when I try to access wp-admin on one of them (the others are fine). If I delete .htaccess entirely in that domain’s subdirectory I can access the admin panel again, similarly if I … Read more
No, in a multisite, all sites have the same users table and user meta. Keep in mind if you did manage this though, it would be trivial for them to find out it was a multisite based on code, and they could very easily break out of their site. As an aside, you could run … Read more
http://bavatuesdays.com/importing-a-single-wp-blog-to-a-wpmu-installation/ http://sillybean.net/wordpress/migrating-single-wordpress-installations-into-multisite-networks/
Have you looked at VVV ? Varying Vagrant Vagrants is designed to support WordPress plugin and theme development using vagrant boxes and github version control. https://github.com/Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/VVV Re Github/Bitbucket – you may possibly use one master and then have a branch per subdomain if there is enough commonality, but from the very vague information you have … Read more
Alternative option could be using the Rest API: Example (post): Search for Jane Doe in posts: https://example.com/staffsite/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/?search=jane+doe Example (custom post types): If the public and searchable custom post type (e.g. staff) has show_in_rest set to true then we can search for Jane Doe in staff posts: https://example.com/staffsite/wp-json/wp/v2/staff/?search=jane+doe ps: Somewhat related, if you want to create … Read more
The answer is here: Domain redirect in WordPress multisite. You need to use the domain mapping plugin. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/ A must read http://ottopress.com/2010/wordpress-3-0-multisite-domain-mapping-tutorial/
You can use get_blogs_of_user() to get all the blogs of a given user. So to get a list sorted by the users: global $wpdb; $blogs = array(); $user_ids = $wpdb->get_col( ‘SELECT ID FROM $wpdb->users’ ); foreach( $user_ids as $user_id ) { $blogs[$user_id] = get_blogs_of_user( $user_id ); } // you can use var_dump( $blogs ); to … Read more
I’ve ended up with using such solution: 1) Created folders like: wp-base – wp-admin – wp-includes – …. all wp-php files and I’ve created “symlink” that 2-folder and wp standard php files inside other folders: my-wp-1 – wp-content & wp.config.php & htaccess my-wp-2 – wp-content & wp.config.php & htaccess The only thing I had to … Read more
Not sure what caused this, a (hackish) fix that worked for me though: RewriteRule ^blogs/([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+)/wp-admin/$ blogs/$1/wp-admin/index.php [L]