Hi @mrclay: Good questions. WordPress Multisite is Many Independant Sites, not Many Dependant Sites To answer your aside, WordPress multisite was designed to be a collections of independent WordPress installs collected into one where each site is likely to be very different, unlike your use-case. So each site has it’s own theme and WordPress wants … Read more
I’ve been using this plugin, which works really, really well.
The main problem is that you’re using GoDaddy shared hosting to host 60-site multi-site systems and still expecting it to work. GoDaddy shared hosting is not appropriate for this kind of setup. Once you get past the 5-6 sites range, you need a dedicated server for them. Get a better hosting account. Pay for it.
You can use one installation for four (or more) singular sites without multi-site. Just point all domains to the same directory with your WordPress installation. In your wp-config.php set the necessary variables and constants depending on the currently requested host: switch ( $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] ) { case ‘example.com’: $table_prefix = ‘ecom_’; $table_name=”ecom”; break; case ‘example.net’: $table_prefix … Read more
You can use the get_current_site() function. Ref. : http://codex.wordpress.org/WPMU_Functions/get_current_site
Check the user meta key primary_blog: $user_has_blog = get_user_meta( $user_id, ‘primary_blog’, TRUE ); For users without a blog $user_has_blog will be false now. For other users $user_has_blog is the blog ID.
I’ll try to explain how it might be done, but not sure it will work: Install 2nd website with single db (2 copies). Create new table in your db. Call it wp_options2 and copy everything from wp_options into the new table in second install in wp-config.php, before if ( !defined(‘ABSPATH’) ) add define( ‘M7_OPTIONS_TABLE’, ‘wp_options2’ … Read more
get_current_blog_id() uses the global variable $blog_id as noted at https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_current_blog_id. When I’ve seen this problem before it’s because I’m declaring $blog_id in my PHP code which is overwriting the WordPress global variable that provides the ID of the subsite. Change the variable name of $blog_id and hopefully the function will start returning the correct site … Read more
Some of the more archaic code is still present in WordPress, notably globalising variables inside functions. A good example of thise is get_current_blog_id(), which is present in wp-load.php: /** * Retrieve the current blog ID. * * @since 3.1.0 * * @global int $blog_id * * @return int Blog id */ function get_current_blog_id() { global … Read more
WordPress’s authentication system is made up of pluggable functions, which means that you can write a plugin that has a function named, say, wp_authenticate(), and your site will use your wp_authenticate() function instead of the native WordPress one. Your comment about is_user_logged_in() (on your original post) is obviated by the fact that is_user_logged_in() calls the … Read more