The function that deals with this is ms_site_check(). If existent, it will use the following files. And they should render a full custom HTML page. WP_CONTENT_DIR . ‘/blog-deleted.php’ WP_CONTENT_DIR . ‘/blog-inactive.php’ WP_CONTENT_DIR . ‘/blog-suspended.php’ Another option is to short-circuit the process and redirect the visitor. It has to be done with a Must Use plugin … Read more
The best solution is to add a widget area that all sites have access to use and then add a text widget. How I handled this since I had one child theme being used was I added a functions.php file and copied a duplicate of the index.php from the parent theme file into the child … Read more
Have a look at this plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-dummy-content/stats/ It is random content so if you need to always to load the same content you will have to look at the code and create your own version. One pain of theme development is setting up all the pages and blog posts in order for you to see … Read more
One way to achieve this, is to alter the way WordPress maps the request to a blog in your multisite network by using the sunrise.php drop-in. Sunrise overwrite the default setup in wp-includes/ms-settings.php. There, a bunch of global variables are set up like $current_blog or $current_site. To activate this dropin you have to define the … Read more
As far as I know, Multi-Domains from WPMUDEV is the only plugin which works flawlessly with the lastest version of WordPress. It is BuddyPress compatible, has a single signon and even a multi-subdomain feature (blog1.subdomain.site.com, blog2.subdomain.site.com). There is a free alternative, but it has not been updated for the latest version of WordPress (the author … Read more
You can map regular domains to a WordPress Multisite installation using the WordPress MU Domain Mapping plugin. There’s also a great tutorial available: WordPress 3.0: Multisite Domain Mapping Tutorial For reference … I asked a similar question yesterday. I have a client who hosts multiple blogs with unique domains, but it becomes a hassle to … Read more
Get a dedicated box with Nginx. That’ll go pretty far even before caching. It mostly depends on your traffic tho. Number of blogs matters a lot less, becasue I’ve seen a network with 10 blogs suck up a gig of RAM becasue of the hits it was getting.
A couple of plugins, depending what you wanted. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-sitewide-tags/ Despite the name, it pulls in all posts to the main blog or a blog called ‘tags’. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/diamond-multisite-widgets/ Give a list of the latest posts network-wide, all in a handy widget.
You Can try force SSL with any 3rd part plugin or hardcoded in wp-config https://wordpress.org/plugins/really-simple-ssl/
Short answer is NO. That is an ugly hack =) More global variables are affect than the ones that you are var_dump’ing. Here are the globals that I found affected: $wpdb, $wp_roles, $wp_object_cache, $global_groups, $GLOBALS[‘_wp_switched_stack’], $GLOBALS[‘blog_id’], and $GLOBALS[‘table_prefix’]. There could be more. I found that $wpdb was another major variable that was altered by switch_to_blog(). … Read more